If England entered Combined Sides to the HC

Never happen - but a fun exercise (maybe). If instead of entering club-sides the RFU had entered 6 combination teams into the HC what would they look like? They have decided to pair teams up as follows based on this years AP teams:

South Western Warriors (Bath/Exeter)

Tractor Boys (Gloucester/Worcester)

North London Nomads(Saracens/Wasps)

West London Wanderers (Harlequins/LI)

East Midlands United (Leicester/Northampton)

Northern Soul (Sale/Newcastle)


Matchday Squads are limited to 5 NEQs - so who would play?

My submission for EM United (assuming players were fit) is:

Foden
Ashton
Manu
Allen
Agulla (NEQ)
Flood
Youngs
Crane
Wood
Croft
Parling
Lawes
Cole
Hartley
Ayerza (NEQ)

Youngs, Tiny (NEQ), Castro (NEQ), Slater, Craig, Dickson, Myler, Pisi (NEQ)

West London Wanderers-

Brown
Ojo
JJ/Lowe (pretty even call)
JTH
Tagicakibau
Evans
Care

Corbs
Gray
Johnston
Casey
Robson
Mo
Robshaw (c.)
Easter

Bench- Marler, Dermody, Paice, Kohn/Kennedy, Guest/Wallace, Hodgson, Shingler, Lowe/JJ/Homer

Oh, only 5 NEQs- in which case Homer benching in place of Shingler

And Wallace at 7 and Robshaw at 6

Or Monye or Smith instead of Tagi

South Western Warriors - Exeter

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:South Western Warriors - Exeter

And only 5 NEQs?

LT, think you'll find our average is higher than Tiggers!

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:LT, think you'll find our average is higher than Tiggers!

Hence why I had to recruit a few saints.

Everyone gets cool names and we get "Tractor Boys"?! Disappointing.

North London Nomads

Gill / Stevens
Brits
Nieto
Borthwick
Wentzel
Launchbury (Wasps bias maybe)
A Sarries open side
Joubert
De Kock (Simpson on the bench)
Hodgson
Strettle
Barritt
???? (any chance I can put Daly here?)
Wade
Goode


That certainly says a lot about the state of Wasps at the moment

Launchbury over Kelly Brown!

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:South Western Warriors - Exeter

Harrumph!

Naughty Asbo, very naughty.

Fearns, Bendy, Attwood and Mears would be nailed on, Louw would be a cert for one of the NEQ spots and this time nest year Donald will be another, Heathcote will be the bench 10 and that's before the summer rebuild...



Honestly, you fecka the one-a pig....

East Mids:

1.Ayerza (NEQ)
2.Hartley
3.Cole
4.Deacon
5.Parling
6.Croft
7.Wood
8.Crane
9.Youngs
10.Flood
11.Benjamin (will be a Tiger next year)
12.Allen
13.Manu
14.Thompstone (will be a Tiger next year)
15.Foden

Bench: Tiny (NEQ), T Youngs, Castro (NEQ), Lawes, Salvi (NEQ), Dickson, Ford, Pisi (NEQ).

Wasps that couldn't be the team as there's too many NEQ players in there, by the rules there's only 5 allowed by LT. It would have to look more like:

1.Gill (NEQ)
2.Brits (NEQ)
3.Nieto (NEQ)
4.Kruis
5.Borthwick
6.Launchbury
7.Burger (NEQ)
8.Vunilpola
9.Simpson
10.Hodgson
11.Wade
12.Barritt
13.Daley
14.Short
15.Goode

Bench: Stevens, Lindsay, Vunipola, Wentzel (NEQ), Wigglesworth, Farrell, Strettle.

As no one has had a go at the Tractor Boys side:

1.Mullan (contreversial)
2.Dawdiuk
3.Harden
4.Hamilton (NEQ)
5.Gillies
6.Quera (NEQ)
7.Kvesic
8.Morgan (will be there next season)
9.Perry (played well this year)
10.Burns
11.JSD
12.Twelvetrees (will be at Glaws next season)
13.Trinder
14.Sharples
15.Morgan

Bench: Wood, Edmonds (NEQ), Tau... (NEQ), Schofield (will sign for Wuss next season), Cox, Cowan (NEQ), Goode, May.