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Bath Rugby	Bathite
Exeter Chiefs	Luke
Gloucester	Prop
Harlequins	Driver
Leicester Tigers	Pooly
London Irish	Mad for Chelsea
London Wasps	CF
London Welsh	Flux
Northampton Saints	Johnny
Sale Sharks	Ollie
Saracens	Chequred
Worcester Warriors	ITFL

CURRENT AP STANDINGS

	P	W	D	L	PD	BP	PTS
01 - Leicester Tigers	17	14	0	3	+120	6	61
02 – Northampton Saints	17	14	0	3	+89	3	59
03 – Harlequins	17	10	0	7	+54	9	49
04 -  Bath Rugby	17	10	0	7	+21	7	47
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05 – Saracens	17	9	1	7	+31	6	44
06 – Exeter Chiefs	17	8	1	8	+5	7	41
07 – Gloucester	17	8	0	9	+25	7	39
08 – London Welsh	17	8	0	9	-6	6	38
09 – Worcester Warriors	17	6	1	10	-74	5	32
10 – Sale Sharks	17	5	3	9	-58	5	31
11 – London Irish	17	5	0	12	-27	5	27
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12 –  London Wasps	17	2	0	15	-152	6	14

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ACADEMY INCREASED TO 20

WAITING LIST:
1. HERSH


3 Jun - Newcastle can make 1 foreign bid
5 Jun - Newcastle/Sale/Irish 1 foreign bid
7 Jun - All teams bar Irish/Newcastle uncapped bid

15 Jun - All full foreign bid
22 Jun - All U21 bid

8 July - All foreign bid

Seeing as you named one, he's my opposing side;

15. Joe Pietersen/Jesse Mogg
14. Andre Taylor
13. Robbie Freuan
12. Lionel Mapoe
11. Henry Speight
10. Tom Taylor
9. TJ Peranara

8. Luke Whitelock
7. Matt Todd
6. Pierrick Gunther
5. Pieter-Steph du Toit
4. Rynhardt Eldstadt
3. Frans Malherbe
2. Rhys Marshall
1. Ofa Tu'ungafasi - I know he's a TH but couldn't find a decent LH

Very SH vs my more NH team, flux

You named most of the NH guys! Very good players from last season or have potential. So difficult to look at players down South, great players come crop up every year!

Well that's almost my 28 out the bag!

JJ from Munster on there as well?

there are still players like JJ Hanrahan, Fusaro around

You only get one anyway. No problem in naming loads, I was going to go for Maitland as a sneaky one - but I have changed my mind since!

I'm not sure where my uncapped bid should be really... TH? 10/12? Thoughts?

I reckon big Ben would be a good shout. Build up from the front IMO. Although I'm tempted with him. Only other thing is that as you may as well know there is a bit of step down from Hodgson in your reserves.

Not sure who I'd go for yet!

Yeah, that's my worry with 10, is that if Hodgson gets injured (luckily unlikely for a bit, hopefully long enough to get another bid/trade), my 10 options are either very young (Stanley/Leonard) or out of position (Goode, Parra)

Yeah, there are quite a few TH's around, so a missing out now wouldn't hurt you in the future. Who would you go for at 10/12?

A name I omitted, Botica, or Madigan

Christian Lealiifano, would tempt me - the Brumbies 10

Or even Gareth Anscombe...

Lealiifano is a talent, but if Sexton goes (as is almost certain) from Leinster, Madigan will be the 1st choice there, and Botica is really looking the real deal as Nev JR at Quins

And he won't be taken away by caps anytime soon!

At true, that's a fair shout. Where do you reckon my Welsh should improve?

Botica looks well flakey, should have stayed in the French D2.

Hasn't Anscombe been dropped by the Blues?

lol Pooly, have you watched any Quins HEC or AP matches? You think Botica looks flaky? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaallly? That's your honest opinion?

Yea, think he's crap mate.

Hooker or OS, Fluxy

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Yea, think he's crap mate.

Fair enough. I strongly disagree and I doubt you'd be in the majority there

I'm fine with that lol.

Good runner but not much else, I'm surprised you rate him. Do others??

Other Quins fans I've met. Good runner, passer and kicker (certainly for points where he has missed, what, a couple of kicks so far if that?) and that makes the package, doesn't it?

Just looks flakey, might be proved wrong but seen nothing so far.

Well, hopefully he'll get a chance in the AP to prove you wrong (whilst Nev leads the ultimately doomed charge at the HEC)

LV tactics are up...as im not fussed about that tournament ive posted largely a 2nd string side.

I don't get a lot of time on here so big thanks to boys who do the team sheets, the league wouldn't run without you.

As a thank you I'm going to give a 1m bonus from now on to the posters.

As a little thank you:

Flux - 6m
CJ - 2m

does anyone have Vincent Clerc or am i free to make a foreign offer for him?

Nobody has him

You are free mate

He's quite old though

he's 28, aint he?

31, oap for a winger

oh crap my bad....i'l re-think my bid.

Habana?

Cheers mate!

Thanks Pooly, but I'm happy to do it for free!

Yer very tempted by Ben T + Elsdadt but see the price going over my measly £19m. Two stars of this for me

Corbs injured again! Seriously worried about his knee condition at such a young age. Think we might have another Tom Rees on our hands. Reckon it's a safe bet he retires before the next WC. Such a shame, really talented scrummager.

He's not injured it was just surgery to fix an issue.

Saints are taking a risk but they must know what they're doing.

Rumours are he'll move to TH in the future.

It's a degenaritive knee injury condition though isn't it? Means it will need serious managing and some luck. Did hear about the TH move, would be good for England, but don't know enough about fat boys play to know if that might actually help him out. Also, there haven't been many props who converted sides and been as good or better. Coonie gone downhill, Stevens a terrible LH etc.

Corbs used to play a fair bit at TH at Irish at the start of his career did he not? Always been a better LH though, and of course with 23 man squad it's less important to have guys who can cover both sides of the scrum.

As I read it, he had surgery to "clean out" his knee, as there were bits floating around in it which weren't supposed to be. Don't know if anyone on here follows cricket, but sounds like a similar condition to what Graeme Swann has with his elbow, and he's needing to be carefully managed at the moment. With careful management I imagine Corbs will still be able to play a fair bit of rugby, but I worry that things like WCs where you're playing quite a lot in a short space of time will be difficult for him.

Anyone in London? I'll buy them a pint

Haha billy no mates!

I'm in London but in a choir rehearsal regrettably!

Shawdich

Just for you Pooly

http://planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16024_8451597,00.html

I'll get round to bids soon, got a cracking hangover

Didn't have you pegged as a drinker Pooly...........

I'm not lol

We were on a leaving do in London from 1pm, feeling it.

Got the last train in at 2am and had to run the 3 mile home because there was no taxis.