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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	10	9	0	1	252	208	+44	27	18	0	1	37
2		Harlequins	10	7	0	3	251	231	+20	27	24	1	3	32
3		Newcastle Falcons	10	7	0	3	250	228	+22	25	19	0	3	31
4		London Irish	10	6	0	4	259	239	+20	28	24	2	4	30
5		Northampton Saints	10	5	1	4	261	241	+20	29	24	2	4	28
6		Gloucester	10	6	0	4	246	237	+9	27	25	0	3	27
7		Sale Sharks	10	5	0	5	252	242	+10	27	25	1	5	26
8		Bath Rugby	10	4	0	6	229	245	-16	21	27	0	5	21
9		London Welsh	10	3	1	6	224	232	-8	22	22	0	6	20
10		London Wasps	10	2	0	8	211	244	-33	19	27	0	7	15
11		Saracens	10	2	1	7	208	255	-47	18	28	0	4	14
12		Worcester Warriors	10	2	1	7	216	257	-41	19	27	0	3	13

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 Finalist - £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.

ChequeredJersey wrote:

formerly known as Sam wrote:1. Marler - 6 - good in the loose but struggled in the tight, scrum time really didn't go his way as the Wallabies adopted the Quins tactic of binding on the arm with great success. Fair, I'd give him 5 max
2. Youngs - 7 - was everywhere, tackled, carried and threw well in the lineout. A couple of dodgey tackles (head in the wrong place) aside a good game. Fair
3. Cole - 7 - not his best day at the scrum despite doing ok, contributed more than the backrow at the breakdown but not enough metres carrying. Fair
4. Palmer - 5 - far too quiet, worked hard without impact. Fair, I'd give him 4
5. Parling - 6 - good in the lineout and made a lot of effort for little reward. Fair
6. Johnson - 7 - best of the backrow and strangely subbed. Made the most impact at the breakdown but his ball in hand work was ineffectual. Barely knew he was on the pitch, 5 max
7. Robshaw - 4 - didn't put hos shoulder in the scrum choosing to hang ODF the side and pull on Cole's shirt instead. Too upright going into contact and lay on breakdown as opposed to competing in it. Thought he was solid, maybe my bias showing. 6. Definitely better than Johnson
8. Waldrom - 6 - willing carrier but a crucial knock on and a lack of impact on defence ate disappointing. Fair
9. Care - 2 - his kicks were awful, his passing was agonisingly slow and his only positive decision was the quick tap. He injected no tempo and has woefully out of his depth. Considered that this might be a joke thought he was one of our best players and sure this was nothing to do with my bias. Counted one poor kick, much much much better than Youngs in every aspect of the game and added pace 7, min 6
10. Flood - 6 - positive in attack and committed in defence but not savvy enough and should have taken the 3 pointers. Fair
11. Sharples - 6 - worked hard but not really in the game. Needs to stop stepping out the line. Fair
12. Barritt - 5 - good in defence but poor and too deep in attack. Very harsh, thought he was good in attack and defence and di well with what he got, at least 6 maybe 7
13. Manu - 8 - covered well in defence and offered genuine go forward in attack. Very generous, poor basic skills, lots of power but was very lucky to be awarded his try. Strayed in defence from what I could see and certainly no better than a 6, maybe 5
14. Ashton - 5 - anonymous. Harsh, thought he was OK, 6
15. Goode - 6 - threatened good things and was a positive influence but needs to look for the tactical kicks a little more. Agree on score, mostly because he was solid, didn't threaten much though
Bench:

16. Vunipola - 6 - same as Marler.
19. Launchbury - 7 - offered a dynamic ball carrier and some more grunt. Fair
20. Wood - 6 - tried hard and got in the 9s face, replaces the wrong flanker.
21. Youngs - 7 - raised the tempo well and controlled the game much better than Care but still not sharp enough. 4 max, thought he added nothing, couldn't pass to hand, couldn't kick, knocked on a crucial time, lost the match with an awful decision. The worst player on the pitch easily.Needs to go back to Leicester and Dickson to bench next match.22.
Farrell - 3 - only contribution was an awful pass. Harsh, but the comment stands, 5 or 4
23. Brown - 5 - ran straight into contact time and time again. Managed to milk a penalty with his only attempt at a kick. Agree the penalty was a bit much. Made yards in contact taht nobody else was doing and made the right decisions for me. 6 or 7

Sam, I like you but I'm actually incredulous that you gave Care a 2 and Youngs (Youngs! He had the worst game I've ever seen him play) a 7

anonmattyt wrote:Thought Robshaws captaincy was awful today. Some dreadful decisions. Dreadful England performance are locks were so mediocre it was untrue