Fantasy Aviva Premiership - Season 1

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Exeter Chiefs	Luke
Gloucester	Prop
Harlequins	Driver
Leicester Tigers	Pooly
London Irish	Pull
London Wasps	Nick
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Northampton Saints	Johnny
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WAITING LIST:
1. HERSH

Oh yes lol

We'll have a two week break then League/Cup and 7's cup week after if ok with you guys?

Can just have score predo's and I'll give 1m to keep budgets ticking over

Fair enough, sounds good to me.

We should have finished in line with the league this season Bathite mate but we started a week early and mixed the league/cup finals up. Will have Heino/Amlin and the AW cup as well as the league next year. So should get pretty exciting!

I'll knock up something for the cup during the week. Any sugestions for the foreign sides. Thinking of taking the Heino semi finalists but theres better sides then Edinburgh around so maybe change them to Toulouse or someone to leve out quality in the groups

Crusaders/Chiefs/Leinster/Toulouse?

Works for me

I'll have a think about the 7s then.

4 groups of 3, winner to cup semis, 2nd place to plate semis. Guess we could do the geographical thing like the real competition.

Will probably have some rules in their to encourage use of youngsters.

Rules
- Teams to name a squad of 12 for the tournament, 10 named for each game
- Squads of 12 to include at least 4 academy players
- Max of 2 Non-British players

Schedule
Gameday 1 - 1st Round group games
Gameday 2 - 2nd Round group games
Gameday 3 - Cup & plate semis
Gameday 4 - Cup & plate finals

Looks good

Maybe do a bowl as well Bathite for the 3rd place teams. Keeps everyone involved through the summer

Yeah ok, fair enough, will be on the same day as other finals. Just a bit concerned that people won't be bothered with predictions.

Might keep predos nice and easy and use tries only, just go for Leicester 3 - 1 Newcastle type score

"Can just have score predo's and I'll give 1m to keep budgets ticking over"

I like the idea of sevens. Maybe a brief but not compulsory tactics (like five bullets max) as sevens is quite tactical, and not just about speed and stamina.

Think i'm having tactics and predictions as optional extras, no real pressure to do it

I don't think there's a need for tactics in 7's

https://www.606v2.com/t29056-thatchers-cider-aviva-premiership-summer-sevens-tournament

Right, i've given it a go. Have said tactics and prediction explanations are optional pretty much

I remember reporting this to you at one point Pooly, but it's official now. Will be a handy player to IMO.

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3823_7755493,00.html

Another journeyman lock......great

Waste of cash that signing , hasn't he been in the J-League?

Haha, won't be all bad. Worcs have released Tomaz, so looks likely we'll sign up too.

For the past three years Drive

Do we just seem to have a policy of signing crap?

Tomsk isn't too bad but McLeod is a poor signing when I was looking forward to see Tui'Fua and Hudson in the engine room

Tui no lock imo...I know little of Macleod but hardly inspiring

Morning lads... just got back from rugby tour.. I'm hanging!!

Welcome back!

Missed some quality aviva semis mate, worth a watch if you've got them recorded. Some pretty mental S15 results as well, but haven't seen any games for a few weeks now actually.

Welcome back mate, where did you go on tour?

Lots of stuff going on, and lots of offers coming your way soon


I would like to see Tuifa in the secondrow, but I would rather see an out and out lock there. Macleod was pretty handy at one point in his career, if I were to compare it you could say it was almost like Taylor's at Bath. He pretty much hit a point and went down hill with injuries. Been the same with mac almost - minus being a Lions player!

Went to Newquay - 40+ pirates took over the town!

Haha epic! My home club went on tour lat weekend to Weymouth, thirty guys turning up to rugby clubs dressed as the Blues Brothers is quite something!

All my mates went to the Charlton match dressed as smurfs the other week , was all over the news

Once won a £500 bar tab for fancy dress when at uni. Me and the vice captain dressed up as noah and the arc respectively, then we had all our freshers marching in 2 by 2, lions, giraffes, cows, foxes, sparrows. Bloody love fancy dress

Off to croatia on tour on Thursday, no match, just baywatch theme!! Apart from the tour virgin who thinks it's drs and nurses when we meet in the pub before treavelling! Am I evil? Yep I am!!

Just gauging interest at the minute:
https://www.606v2.com/t29107-summer-european-rugby-league

Evening everyone

I'm currently on the hunt for any raffle prizes to help raise funds to kit out my 10s team, if in anyway you feel you could help us please let me know.

It can be anything from a tin of beans to whatever you want it to be.

All prizes would be appreciated and some will even appear on Ebay at a later date to which i will try and get around to posting links to.


Thanks

Driver

Bathite ,Luke , Pull, Nick and Ozzy still to predict

Done my prediction now, cheers

Don't forget to get your 7s squads in when you get a chance

Predo done, will get on to the 7's squad shortly.

When is the AP Cup final, I thought it was when I was away so PM'd SJE my team but can't see a thread for it???

Next week, we messed up

Ah, ok, no worries. Can't remember what team I was putting out now though and have deleted the message. Hopefully SJE still has it so I don't have to type it all up again.

I still have it Pete mate

Cheers mate.

Sevens coming along nicely, just Leicester, Wasps, Sale and Exeter to name squads.

Pooly - do you want any sort of prizes for this compo, winning, participating or predicting?

Throwing it out there, maybe the winners of the cup, plate and bowl get to sign 1 7s player each for free? Just an idea, wouldn't affect league hugely, but a nice incentive perhaps?

My squad is in.

No prizes mate, just the satisfaction of winning.

They'll be predo bonuses anyway of 1m

Fair enough, i'll add that to the rules.

Anyone up for a deal, not that we ever do any

Another lock for Falcons:

http://www.newcastlefalcons.co.uk/news/story/falcons-sign-italian-international

All these signings based on you staying up Pooly?

Not as bad as the previous 22 signings they've made , in fact I can see him making a impact!

I dont think so Bathite....not many champ clubs will have 80+ caps in their engine room though! Hes actually pretty good though so pretty happy with this one

Yeah quite, I agree, got to be happy with that. Really rate Hudson as well and your Saffa looked pretty useful the few times i've seen you play.

That's 1 signing of 9 done! Bring on Rory Lawson and Michael Lipman!