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FULL FOREIGNS (Summer transfers)

1st bid - 0900 Monday 04 June

2nd bid - 0900 Monday 02 July

Summer foreigns close - 31 August

ACADEMY INCREASED TO 20

WAITING LIST:
1. HERSH

Sounds good SJE

Right then, really struggling to keep interest going with this.....

Anyone up for some deals?

Really keen on adding some EQ quality to my starting XV. The likes of:

Louw
Dagg
SOB
Muller
Hook
Healy
Lualala
Carraro
Perenise
Caldwell
Classens
Donald

all available for the right deal

Anyone keen for a deal. All players available in the right offer

Slow day

Lions squads

Healy , Jenkins , Marler , Jones , Cole , Murrey

Best (c) , Ford , Hartley

POC , Charteris , Grey , Davies

Ferris , Brown , Croft , Rennie , Warburton , O'Brian

Denton , Falatau

Phillips , Youngs , Care

Sexton , Priestland

Roberts , Davies , Tuilagi

Drico , Evans , Hogg

North , Visser , Cuthbert , Ashton , Foden

Halfpenny , Brown

Good squad Driver....Kearney over Brown

Forgot about Kearney


Lot of quality to battle it out , think we'' do Aus over myself.

Yea me too, just need a bit of English involved to make them believe!

Plenty of decent English in there , but no real EQ stand outs in world rugby bar Youngs when on form

Yer, Youngs & Tuilagi probably our best players on form. Foden & Cole top draw too. Ashton, Robshaw, Croft, Flood pretty handy also.

I honestly thought 3 years ago that Tom Croft was going to become world class. Lot of niggly injures along the years when he gets back to his best.

Runs great lines for a 6 , Lions first test he was immense.

He just needs a Robshaw type player to play off I think to free him up. He's wasted at the bottom of a ruck. I thought him and Robshaw really worked well in the 6N

Think he needs that dog on the other side , great in the lineout especially at 2 so quick up and releases the ball great aswell. Would love to see Croft and Wood on England flanks but Robshaw is never going to lose the 7 shirt in the next few games.

I think Croft and Wood in the backrow, especially without a standout 8 with a real workrate in the tight, is a bad idea. They would get bullied by a lot of team. Croft- Robshaw, Wood-Robshaw, Croft- Haskell etc all work but I cannot see Croft-Wood getting the best out of either player

Wood does shed loads in the tight and is almost always in a ruck being a pain in the bum.

Interesting scenario here. Your MJ prior to game vs France in RWC 11 who would you have picked?

I'd of went

1.Corbs
2.Hartley
3.Stevens
4.Palmer
5.Lawes
6.Wood
7.Haskell
8.Easter

9.Youngs
10.Flood
11.Ashton
12.Hape
13.Tuilagi
14.Cueto
15.Foden (Would of been Armitage if he didn't clatter Paterson week before)

My Lions squad of 40 (first one I've done for what it's worth, plus the fringe players at the end)* = starter

Props- TH- *Cole, Jones
LH- *Healey, Jenkins, Corbisiero
Hookers-* Best, Hartley, Rees
SR- *O Connell, Ryan, *Gray, Evans, Hamilton
Backrow main 6- *Ferris, Brown
7-* Rennie, Warburton
8- *Denton, Morgan
Utility BR- SOB, Robshaw
9- *Care, Youngs, Phillips
10- *Sexton, Flood, Laidlaw
12- Roberts, * JD2,
13- *BOD, Tuilagi, May
Wings- Visser, *Halfpenny, *Bowe, Cuthbert, Ashton, North
FB- *Kearney, whoever of Goode, Brown or Foden has the 15 shirt.

Close runners- TH- Ross
LH- Marler
Hooker- Ford
SR- Parling, Davies
6- Lydiate
7- Tipuric
8- Heaslip
9- Peel, Blair
10- Farrell
Wing- Robinson, Baby Kearney
Centre- JJ, Scott Williams
FB- whoever loses out on the England shirt, Hogg

Oh and Wood and Haskell in the close runners too

In that Enfland BR, Haskell and Easter were the Physical ones, Wood had his qualities but physicality wasn't one of them. IMO a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder

Wood is very good but tends to get rated much higher due to been out so long for some reason. Robshaw/Croft for me

You see the Welsh 7s team pooly? Had a Pooly lad in it. Aaron Myers was at west when i was there and plays for Westoe now.

I'm back now lads. Have I missed anything?

Driver picked your team against me in the Summer Cup, if you want to change/add to it

Anyone up for a deal? On nights so need something to do!

we won't come to an accord

Haha I'm quite bored. Sure we can find some agreement? lol

What can I do to improve my scrum?

Depth chart-


1-Mullan- Vunipola - Saunders - Dickinson - Brookes
2Brits - Buchanan - Hawkins - Allen - Crumpton
3Nieto - Brookes - du Plessis - Vunipola
4Borthwick (c.) - Matthews - Vyvvan - Jubb
5Ryan - Kruis
6Brown - McCaw - York - Fraser - Hankin (need more players?)
7McCaw - Fraser (need more 7)
8Joubert - York - Wray - McCaw - Brown

I'd deffo say 7 fella , be missing McCaw first 9 weeks of season in Rugby Championship.

Does anyone have Haskell?

Potential 7s- Haskell, Poff, Nyaga, Zanni, Tipuric, Rennie

The Hask is at Wuss i think?

I'd go for Rennie , really good player.

I agree, stone cold certain INT in the 6N though

George Robson could leave...

Driver - RIP 606 wrote:I'd deffo say 7 fella , be missing McCaw first 9 weeks of season in Rugby Championship.

First 9 weeks? S hit the bed, that changes a lot in my squad!

Glad I got Daly to cover Smith now!

Smith injured though!

Really? Ironically that's actually good for me, probably

Yep it is. Wouldn't mind a few of mine picking up a 4 week knock!

Wray or Kruis potentially for sale

I'd be in for Kruis. What for him?

I'm sniffing about for a 8.

4 day weekend!

People's 4N side?

1.Corbs
2.Grey/Smit
3.JJ
4.Botha
5.Robson/Hargreaves
6.Robshaw
7.Skinner
8.Kvesic

9.Burgess/Wiggles
10.Farrell
11.Short
12.Fofana
13.Payne
14.North
15.Southwell

Need a 8 definitive.

1. Beast
2. BdP
3. Franks
4. Horwill
5. Bekker
6. Alberts (Kaino injured)
7. Pocock
8. Read

9. Genia
10. Carter

11. Habana
12. Nonu/SBW
13. AAC (Smith injured?)
14. JOC
15. Dagg (Beale injured?)

Wow. Missed the point there

If only we could field that side Pull....

Mine:

1. Domingo
2. Youngs
3. Castrogiovani
4. Gray
5. Parling
6. Croft
7. Warburton
8. Parisse

9. Youngs
10. Flood
11. Benjamin
12. JTH
13. Tuilagi
14. Wade
15. Kearney

Pack hardly touched but lose big in backs.

Can't wait to role out Jackson 4/JLS across the middle (Wade, JTH, Tuilagi, Benjamin)

Lol.

Been shaping my side to try and not be affected during Int periods. Top non-ints so valuable, likes of Afoa, Steffon, Peel, Wilko, Nacewa etc available all year.

Prob losing only Beast, with Horwill and Kahui missing out with injury.

1- Mullan
2- Brits
3- Nieto
4- Ryan
5- Borthwick
6- Brown
7- Fraser (working on that)
8- Joubert
9- Parra
10- Hodgson
11- Mitchell
12- Allen
13- Smith, or when he's back, Daly
14- Halfpenny
15- Goode

Vunipola, Hawkins, Brookes, Matthews, York, Spencer, Geraghty, Daly/Smith

Sorry, last bench space is Wyles

Wyles is pretty tasty at 13 CJ , he scored a corker against Sale where he danced round Cueto and darted in.

Not plan to lose Drew Mitchell?