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Exeter Chiefs	Luke
Gloucester	Prop
Harlequins	Driver
Leicester Tigers	Pooly
London Irish	Pull
London Wasps	Nick
London Welsh	Flux
Northampton Saints	Johnny
Sale Sharks	Ollie
Saracens	Chequred
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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

Smith looks a long term fantastic 9

I wonder what the smallest number of surnames you could fill an international class 15 with is. Smith and Jones and Williams would cover a lot!

I can do it with 4:

15-Felix Jones?
14- Lee Jones
13- Conrad Smith
12- SB Williams
11- Shane Williams
10- Steven Jones
9- Aaron Smith
8- Ryan Jones
7- George Smith
6- Juan Smith
5- Ali Williams
4- Bakkies Botha
3- Adam Jones
2- Gary Botha
1- BJ Botha

Bench- Duncan Jones, Rhodri Jones, Hooker?, Mouritz Botha, Martyn Williams, Lloyd Williams , ? , Sam Smith

Steve Jones welsh hooker

Matt Rees , Richie Rees

In train station bored

13T has shaved his head!!!!

Who is 13T?

Twelvetrees big brother?

Glos won 20-6, fair play I was impressed at how Dan Murphy did Flise, 2 penalties, 1 free kick and a penalty try from him. For someone who was hopeless last year he's come on well

Think he bagged 2 last week didn't he Prop?

Don't be fooled prop, Murphy occasionally pulled out a big performance when he played for us as well, but 90% of the time his scrummaging is gash!

Argies getting hooped

Well fingers crossed Ozzy, that's 2 games in a row, here's hoping Nige and Haag have sorted him out!!

ht guys, I'm off now so use the Gloucester holiday page for teamsheets and be kind to me!! Ta-ta for now!!

Have a good one fella

Quick question for Pooly...
Will we be extending tactic limits for the new season?...

I'm pretty happy with 10 lines and 10 points tbh, I think people get carried away sometimes and I know personally the longer the tactics the less likely it is I'll read them.

People's thoughts?

10 lines fine

Agree, if people go overboard I skim read so would rather shorter tactics.

I agree, think we are at the max now

Ok

Sorry SJE lol

Can we use the 10 line paragraph in bullet point format?
Just working on the layout of my general tactics...


Also guys get predictions in will be doing results tomorrow morning and so far theres only two sets.

will get mine done soon.

Right.....

Budgets should be up to date as of today.

I'm off to Bahrain for a month or two so time on may be limited depending on Hotel internet access.

Euro fixtures need sorting but I'll try and get round to that out there.

SJE is in charge so give him some sh it

Catch you later boys

So, SJE, do you remember Pooly agreeing to give me Youngs, JOC and Gray and you Parisse, Kearney and du Plessis for free?

Cheers Driver, I'll add them to Euro page when I get it up and running

I thought I was getting JOC CJ??

I find it slightly ironic that my team is benefitting over the RC due to Real Life injuries to two of my key players

You're actually complaining about it!

I'm not complaining, just think it's really odd! Pooly gets JOC and Bissie through the RC too

Just the rules mate. Are you still interested in my previous offer? Seeing as GF is still a no show...

Not ATM, I'll still wait it out mate

All this drama about Cipriani and then Haskell being the first English players to play Super Rugby and now I find out that they were beaten to it. Great bit of trivia knowledge, the man mountain that is Julian White turned out for the Crusaders in 1997! Brilliant!

Now that's a player that's built for Super Rugby!

When's our next foreign bid window?

Nov & Mar Pull. 1 bid which you can make anytime during that month so you have the chance to raise extra funds through predictions etc if needed that month

Didn't Martin Johnson play Super Rugby before that? Or was he just Counties and Baby Blacks?

Definately played NZ U21s, but no Super Rugby. My Kiwi mates still call him the one that got away, him and Andy Caddick!

Bored, World XV, one per nationality

Tongha (Tonga)
Tincu (Romania)
Jones (Wal)
POC (Ire)
Gray (Scot)
Kolisi (Ken)
Burger (Nam)
Parisse (Ita)

Care (Eng)
Carter (NZ)
JOC (Aus)
Steyn (SA)
Pisi (Sam)
Ngwenya (US)
Pritchard (Can)

^^^^^^^^^^^

I wish I had that team! There are some absolute beasts in there. They'd win this league!

No French?!

Care????

Of all the English players you pick the 2nd best 9 we have lol

haha, no French, amazing from me!

Really like Care, always have done and never been a Youngs fan.

Tongha (Tonga)
Tincu (Romania)
Jones (Wal)
POC (Ire)
Gray (Scot)
Kolisi (Ken)
Burger (Nam)
Parisse (Ita)

Parra (Fra)
Carter (NZ)
JOC (Aus)
Steyn (SA)
Tuilagi (Eng)
Ngwenya (US)
Pritchard (Can)

There we go, some adjustments!

I'd say Care and Youngs are neck and neck at the moment. Youngs may have the more potential long term but right now its a real dog fight for the 9 shirt. Young has to come back from this injury. Took him nearly a full season to get over the last one

I used to really detest Care, but he's improved massively.

Personally think Youngs is one of our true world class players and just has that ability to rip teams apart (AP final, SA test). I've loved him since I seen him play against SA for Tigers.

I don't used to like Care either. But really has improved his mentality an game over the past two years. Kind of glad we have some good nines now for England. Once Harry Ellis retired I thought we were up the creak for decent 9's!

Just great we are in a position with competition for shirts, just need to find another TH! God help us if Cole gets injured!

Youngs doing what he does best is great to watch, its just that crabbing and stepping to the 10 that infuriates me, but I'm a bit of an old school ten. I hate it when the scrummy takes all my space and draws the back row onto me!

That's the way him and Flood work, give Flood more options on the line. Think that's why he struggled so much with Farrell as he sits so deep and doesn't commit the line.

Youngs should be able to adapt quicker but he's never played that way, still a young boy though and a quick learner. His box kicks were on the button by the second test.

Agree though, great options to have. I'd be happy with either him or Care & pretty happy with both the Dicksons.

I think I must be unwell, I agree with every one of your sentences Pooly!

Youngs and Flood on top form is the future for England, that's for sure.

Without a doubt. There's a few on other AP who rate Farrell higher but I'm at a loss to see how. Flood has the lot but just isn't top draw, just misses the consistency.

People want a Carter but he's a once in a generation, Cruden could be the next one.

Cruden does look the balls! Gutted that the other game didn't take off, I had a Cruden and Cooper! So annoying that the 'Canes are now awesome, this backline would have been awesome!


Perenera / Weepu
Cruden / Cooper
Jane / Gear
Nonu
Smith
Savea
Halfpenny / Taylor