Fantasy Aviva Premiership - Season 1

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FOREIGN U21 bid - 0900 Sunday 27/05

• Born on/after 02/09/91
• U21 by 01/09/2012
• Non Int only
• 3m starting bid

FULL FOREIGNS (Summer transfers)

1st bid - 0900 Monday 04 June

2nd bid - 0900 Monday 02 July

Summer foreigns close - 31 August


WAITING LIST:
1. HERSH

I do silly things when i'm drunk , i used to have a collection of Garden Gnomes which i randomly collected whilst strolling home...

As a uni house we have. We have a growing collection of pub benches and tables, a sainsburys advertisement tarp, a trolley at one point and also there's still a Christmas tree out front

And we wonder why people our age have a bad image in the media Flux

I like to think we are defining a generation of borrowers...

Any consideration of my offer by the way bud?

ENG u20 hooker Scott Spurling (and Max Crumpton, another hooker too) is a Sarries player- may I add him to my academy?

Just stick on conf page mate

I bought spurling off a previous saracens manager.

Stupid previous Sarries managers. Can I check if anyone traded Crompton or Hankins?

Well I'm sure they got a good deal...

They haven't, you can add them

Still waiting Wasps and Sale 7s squads

Cheers

Didn't you say you'd do the Wasps side?

CBA to do any revision, anyone up for a deal?

I said I'd have a look at it, but if someone confirmed the Wasps academy player positions. Not really au fait with their players. If someone could help out, i'd appreciate it.

Thatcher's Summer Sevens Tournament

All squads are in. Players are contracted to play for their original side in this competition, regardless of their transfer in the main game.

Starting date to be confirmed by boss man Pooly

I'm kicking about for a deal lads

If you write the rest of my research project and do today's presentation for me I'll give you Brits and Goode

I can do that.........

Won't be very good like....

ChequeredJersey wrote:If you write the rest of my research project and do today's presentation for me I'll give you Brits and Goode

What's it on?

Um, the acute effects of ketamine on resting state brain activity, as measured with a type of probabilistic fMRI analysis

Hey guys, just so you know I'm back! Dying slightly in work but am after a top 7, 9 and IC.

If you hold on, one of my 7s might be available at an extortionate price

ChequeredJersey wrote:Um, the acute effects of ketamine on resting state brain activity, as measured with a type of probabilistic fMRI analysis

I agree

Can you get to London to do a presentation by about 1pm?

ChequeredJersey wrote:Can you get to London to do a presentation by about 1pm?

Unlikely, sorry fella....so close

Bathite you could sit my exam this afternoon however?!

It's River's and Coastal Systems. So Geomorphology, the mechanics and chemistry of landscapes, and processess.

Rivers flow downhill and it's windy at the coast.

Right...who's next?

Wow thank you Jezza Bathite...

Would ask you to sit my History exam on 1960's Britain but our resident dinosaur Pooly would be better served with that

How would people rate Goosen starting at 10 for me next season?

As long as you have an experienced option off the bench if it gets hard for him, I'd rate him highly

One of the best young FHs around. Good if you manage to keep Wilko as poor weather player as well.

Untried in poor weather but a big big talent, has the lot

Yep, was my number 1 U21 target, was going big for him, I'll rate him highly.

Yeah the poor weather aspect is what i'm most worried about, will have to have a good think about it.
Gutted he's injured for the rugby championships he would have definetly got some game time and to be fair i thought he could push Morne all the way for a starting spot.

I fully expect Goosen will be SA's 10 for a good while as soon as he gets ahead of steyn in the pecking order as long as he is not injury ravaged. Lambie for me will be there 15. I just hope Meyer gives some of these youngsters a go rather than leaving them around the fringes. If he's too conservative and plays a Bulls style game i can see SA struggling.

The thing is he can't really play a Bulls style game without the oldguard which played that system so well. The new crop of players are also mostly untried at test level. With the talent available, it'd be hard not to play a different game plan.

Lambie is a little pragmatic, more in SA style. I doubt he'd have played this summer as was part of U20 side

Fluxy wrote:The thing is he can't really play a Bulls style game without the oldguard which played that system so well. The new crop of players are also mostly untried at test level. With the talent available, it'd be hard not to play a different game plan.

I think they've got the foundations to play it , Bekker and Kruger are very good in the lineout.

But if you play them, you lack the grunt of a Bakkies style player.

It is surprising how much the style and success of the International team depended on the seondrow and scrumhalf, and even the fullback if we included Percy Mont.

I think they have a pretty physical player in Flip Van Der Merw and Elstadt isn't meant to be a push over.

Nonu to the Crusaders?

http://blogs.espnscrum.com/Rumour-Mill/2012/05/nonu_set_for_crusaders_switch.php

Seen that, needs to as lost at Blues.

SA have ready made replacements for Matfield/Bakkies, just need game time

Elstadt would be good but apart from Bekker and maybe Flip, it's a relatively inexperienced partnership and players, Eztebeth looks good.

Elstadt has stagnated a little playing flank and the youngster coming through. Couldn't go wrong with

4. Flip
5. Bekker/Kruger

I thought he might have missed the June Tests because of the u20's but joined the squad for the rugby championship or i have got the dates wrong?

For me since the rule changes its so much more important to not kick the ball away all the time. Meyer got his success playing this way though so may struggle to move away from it. I just think there forwards physicality would be better utilised if they didn't kick away so much ball.

Sorry I didn't predict guys, been recovering from tour and swamped catching up at work!!

Need Pull to get his extra time team in. No worries Prop.

Falcons sign:

Rory Lawson, Carlo del Fava, Tane Tu'ipulotu, Scott MacLeod, Andrew Higgins, Oliver Tomaszczyk & Alex Crockett.

I saw the Tu'ipulotu signing yesterday. I think maybe a decent back three signing may help though.

Only really happy with the signings of Lawson , CDF and Tomas out of that lot. Is Crockett really any better than Connor Uys?

Hasn't that Tuploita bloke played at the Falcons before?

Yeah he's just done a year in Japan