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2010/2011 - Newcastle Falcons
2009/2010 - Saracens
2008/2009 - London Irish

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POS		Aviva Premiership	PLAYED	WON	DREW	LOST	P F	P A	P D	T F	T A	TBP	LBP	POINTS
1		Leicester Tigers	6	6	0	0	153	118	+35	16	9	0	0	24
2		Newcastle Falcons	6	5	0	1	149	136	+13	14	12	0	1	21
3		Northampton Saints	6	4	0	2	161	143	+18	19	14	2	2	20
4		London Irish	6	4	0	2	162	145	+17	18	15	2	2	20
5		Harlequins	6	4	0	2	150	138	+12	16	14	1	2	19
6		Sale Sharks	6	3	0	3	151	143	+8	16	14	1	3	16
7		Gloucester	6	3	0	3	144	143	+1	15	14	0	2	14
8		Bath Rugby	6	2	0	4	132	147	-15	11	16	0	3	11
9		London Wasps	6	2	0	4	133	149	-16	13	16	0	3	11
10		London Welsh	6	1	0	5	132	142	-10	13	13	0	5	9
11		Worcester Warriors	6	1	0	5	132	147	-25	12	17	0	3	7
12		Saracens	6	1	0	5	123	161	-38	10	19	0	2	6

Senior Squads wrote:
The maximum squad size is 40 senior players. If a team has more than 40 players in their squad then they will be fined £1 million per player over the permitted amounts per day for the first seven days. If after 7 consecutive days a team still has more than the permitted number of players then the team will be fined £2 million per player per day, and fined 1 league point per player per day for the next seven days. If after this time a team still has more than the permitted number of players in their squad, the RFU (me) will remove players at it’s discretion to bring them back under the permitted numbers. There will be no right of appeal to players being removed.

Be aware that all tier one international matches which are played during the season will count in the game, and players selected in the matchday 22's for those matches will not be eligible to play for their clubs on that weekend, therefore you must give due consideration to the make up of your squad.

Academy Rules wrote:
Each team will be allowed to have a listed senior academy squad of 20 players. Players who are in the senior academy must be under 22 years of age as of 1st September 2012 (therefore must have been born on or after 1st Septmber 1990). Players who are under the age of 20 (so born after 1st September 1992) AND are in the academy of the club that you are managing in real life, DO NOT need to be listed as senior academy players as part of your 20, but are available to you in this game and cannot be poached by other clubs without paying you a fee.

Should a player not listed in your 20 senior academy players, but part of the clubs academy in real life move clubs in real life, then you will have first option of promoting him to your listed senior academy. If you choose not to take this option he will become property of the club that he moves to in real life in this game.

Transfers wrote:

• Domestic (other AP Teams)
  Each team has a budget to use in the purchase of players. Domestic transfers between AP clubs, regardless of nationality of player, should be negotiated between the respective managers, and then confirmed on the Domestic Transfer Confirmation Page.
  
  
• Domestic (Championship and below)
  Each team may during the season purchase no more than 3 players from the Championship or the National Leagues. These players must be bid for on the Championship/National League bidding page, and each bid will be considered by me on it's own merits before being accepted or rejected. No bid will be accepted until a minimum of 24 hours has elapsed from the time the bid was made, in order to afford other managers the opportunity to make a counter bid.
  
  
• Foreign
  To make a foreign transfer (i.e from any club outside of the AP, regardless of whether the player is English) a bid should be made on the Foreign Transfers Page, which will be considered by me against the posted guidelines for purchase prices before being accepted or rejected. No bid will be accepted until a minimum of 24 hours has elapsed from the time the bid was made, in order to afford other managers the opportunity to make a counter bid.
  
  Foreign transfers will unlimited during the off season and 2 during the season. The exact dates of the two transfer windows during the season is to be confirmed.
  

Player Releases wrote:
Managers may choose to release players from their clubs, for which they will be offered compensation

Compensation will be paid as follows

£2 million – current international (must have played international rugby in the previous 12 months)
£1.5 million – former international
£1m – top flight experience
£0.5m – other

If a released player plays in real life for a team outside of this game he will be deemed to have returned to that team. If not then he will be deemed to have signed for a Championship side. If another manager wants to pick a released player up, they will have to bid for him in the same way as for a foreign or Championship/National League player.

Retirements wrote:
There will be no compensation for retiring players. Should a player who retires decide to come out of retirement and play again, then he will automatically go back to the club who he was playing for in the game when he retired.

Fixtures wrote:
There will be 22 Aviva Premiership games per season, plus the play offs. There will also be Heineken Cup, Amlin Challenge Cup and Anglo Welsh Cup matches. These games will take place once a week. A thread will be put up for managers to name their teams on Thursdays, then on Fridays, managers will post the scores that they think will happen from these games (apart from games in which they are involved). An average of all predictions will be taken, and then 0.5 points added to each teams score for each prediction that had them as the winner, and that will then be the final score.

Teams wrote:
When naming your team, not only should you put the starting XV and replacements, but also tactics that your team will employ. Results will be affected by the tactics described.

In addition, each team must have the following:-

At least 10 England qualified players in your matchday 23, and at least 5 of those must be in your starting XV.

At least 2 props and 1 hooker on the bench.

All players must be eligible (not injured or banned).

Failure to comply with these rules will result in forfeiting the match and a 1 league point deduction.

If you fail to submit a team for a match, then the other team will be automatically awarded a 30-0 bonus point win. If both teams fail to submit a team, then it will be scored as a 0-0 draw.

Injuries and Suspensions wrote:
Injuries in this game do NOT reflect real life, they will be generated by me.

Players banned in real life will be ineligible for selection in this game for the duration of the ban.

Inclusion of injured/banned players will result in them being replaced by players on the bench, and the bench not having eight players, which may result in punishment if it concerns the front-row.

Punishment for fielding an ineligible player will be loss of one match point for a first offence, two for a second offence and so on.

Financial Rewards wrote:
There will be no rewards for the result of an individual match, instead the managers will receive cash for predicting.

£1.5m for descriptive predictions
£0.25m for scores on the doors predictions
If you fail to predict without first advising me that you are unable to do so that week, you will be fined £1m for a first offence, £2m for a second offence, £3m for a third offence etc.

AP finishing positions.

Champions: 8m
Runners Up: 6m
Playoff Semi Finalist Losers: 5m
5th: 4m
6th: 3.5m
7th: 3m
8th: 2.5m
9th: 2m
10th: 1.5m
11th: 1m
12th: 0.5m

Heineken Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £2 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £3 million each
Runners Up - £4 million
Champions - £5 million

Amlin Challenge Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £1 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £2 million each
Runners Up - £3 million
Champions - £4 million

Anglo-Welsh Cup

Losing Semi Finalisst - £1 million each
Runners Up - £2 million
Champions - £3 million


If your budgets falls below minus £10 million for any reason, the administrators (ozzy3213) will step in and players from within your squad will be released for the relevant financial compensation in order to bring your budget back above minus £10 million.

doctor_grey wrote:Even at the end of his career Jonny gets so much attention. Of course he has a shot to go with the Lions. He is playing quite well at Toulon and appears happier than he was at home. One thing I see watching Toulon is that they do change their game plan significantly, if needed, based upon the opponent. So Jonny might be standing back and kicking a lot in some matches, but in others he plays flatter and gets his backs moving. So he is showing he can play that way - which is how he played as a young gun for Newcastle and England, many moons ago.

To be fair, though, I think his chances of going on tour with the Lions are fairly small. He has retired from International Rugby, and has not played at that level for a while. And he does have the benefit of a strong pack in front of him.

One factor in Jonny's favour is the lack of a strong pool of out-halves at this moment. To me only Sexton is a certainty (barring injury, of course). Flood is probable, but needs to regain the England jumper first. Then there are a lot of young up-and-comers who have shown glimpses of greatness (hopefully on target for the 2015 RWC).

A second factor in Jonny's favour is that he is still a huge name in Rugby globally. Apologies to all Home Nations players, but Jonny is still a bigger name, especially outside our islands. He would bring a lot more attention to the Lions tour.

A third factor is composition of the Toulon team itself. Yes, it has a lot of (former? older?) stars. But this is a team full of people form many different clubs and countries. It takes a strong personality on the pitch to keep them all on the same page and win consistently. It takes a lot more than one training camp to build a cohesive team. Yet, Jonny is a key part of that, very important at 10, and that's a special talent needed almost uniquely with the Lions.

stnick88 wrote:Aulika destroyed tonga'uhia today, was awesome. Garvey completely outplayed lawes too. It all clicked for Irish was great to watch. Jj excellent.

Steven_Sharks wrote:Tommy Taylor a class younster. Played with him.

He will go far I suspect.

Sale in trouble. Losing faith in Diamond/redpath atm