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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

I thought he was heading to Japan?

Your call Bathite, 3m bonus for 2 games prediction is quite nice

Ok, just wasn't sure if I was ok to do it. I've predicted now, two really really close games!

Israel Dagg might be available for a equivalent world class in return, preferably at half back or centre

bath im intrested in him....i have world class centres i could let go

Ah what, apparently Hipkiss retired as well! Another EQ! aaargh

I have missed a lot of stuff today!

Is this the Bathite effect

Results are in boys:

Heiniken Cup Winners: Leicester Tigers

Amlin Cup Winners: Saracens

Losing Quarter Finalists - £4 million each (Gloucester)
Losing Semi Finalists - £6 million each
Runners Up - £8 million (Northampton Saints)
Champions - £12 million (Leicester Tigers)

Amlin Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £2 million each (Worcester)
Losing Semi Finalists - £4 million each (Sale & Harlequins)
Runners Up - £6 million (London Welsh)
Champions - £8 million (Saracens)

How many Foreigns are we getting over the Summer, chap?

Congrats by the way CJ

My wait for a trophy continues...

A lot of signings that! Anyone desperately in need of cash, might be willing to buy players over the summer

I might be able to offer some cash if anyone is interested.

They'll be bonuses for clubs at the end of the season, everyone will have funds to make a full compliment of signings.

The bottom sides may get an additional 1 or 2 signings, I need to assess squads.

I could do with an extra one, runner up in the amlin, running all of the match threads....

Haha....yea whatever

I'm looking at currently:

Wasps - 4 foreign/1 x U21
Sale - 3 foreign/1 x uncapped/1 x U21
Irish - 3 foreign/1 x U21
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Other - 2 foreign/1 uncapped/1 U21

The 3 bottom clubs getting the chance to sign a player first before foreigns fully open.

Damn!

Looks good. Silly question, does the uncapped player have to be over 21?

Seems fair

Any age Flux

Cool thats good.

London Welsh are willing to listen to offers on the following;

LH – Rhys Gill [WEL]
HK - Chris Whitehead [ENG]
TH – Phil Swainston [ENG]
TH - Tom Mercey [ENG] (*)
TH - Craig Mitchell [WEL] Welsh Squad
LK – Dean Mumm [AUS]
LK – Jonathon Mills [WEL] (*)
OS/BS/8 - Ashley Johnson [RSA]
BS/8 – Daniel Browne [NZL] (*)
BS/8 - Chris Hala'ufia [TON]
BS - Tim Johnson [ENG] EPS

SH - Paul Hodgson [ENG] (*)
IC/FH/OC - Gavin Henson [WEL] (*)
WG - Topsy Ojo [ENG]
WG - Seb Stegmann [ENG] (*)
FB/WG - Hugo Southwell [SCO]
FB/WG - Maxime Medard [FRA] French Squad

Lads with *'s I;m considering on releasing so if you could match the release or just below I'd consider letting them go.

Pooly,

"Other - 2 foreign/1 uncapped/1 U21"

Does that mean 2+1+1=4 signings in total? Or 2 signings of which one must be u21 and one uncapped?

4 signings

im intrested in Henson and Medard flux

Make an offer mate

We doing anything Lions-related on the game?

How do you mean mate?

Don't know, was just wondering whether our player's would get tired or injured or whatever on the tour

I'm not really sure on that one. Obviously players could pick up rating etc.

Guess it's the same as for other summer tours in that player's form (both up and down) will change. In my head, you've got to rate anyone on the tour slightly higher, just for being selected

Yeah I'd with you Bathite. not sure fatigue is that much of an issue either. As they will have a break going into the new season.

I remember there was a big dip in form from most of the Lions players on returning last time, time will tell I guess.

Some players still seem to hold a bit of rating from the last tour!

Jamie Roberts

Kearney, Bowe, Heaslip.....

Kearney has been brilliant though.

Alan Quinlan anyone?

Yea they've had some ups and downs.

Kearney & Bowe were unreal during that last tour, I don't think they've quite hit those heights since.

Quinlan made a fantastic contribution to the tour by gouging someone, getting suspended before the tour and allowing Croft to explode into the world in his favoured "flinger" position

That and showed everyone that his first sport should've been high jumping

I've got a spare ticket for Falcons Flux, Bedford far?

I'm at home (the island)

Even Bath would be pushing it!

Unfortunately I will have to rely on the twitter updates of the game as well

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/22644737

How often does Manoa even play 8?!

Last two games he has

Does that qualify the article to refer to him as Saints number 8? He's played a lot more on the flank and at lock, surely?

Fenton wells could give falcons problems

Hope we keep this up, rain is helping

Very happy with that result, fantastic pack performance

It's a result, an one I'm happy enough with. A win an a margin of nine points isn't massive, but it's enough to maintain - especially at home.

Anyone else seen the England team vs. Baa Baas. Wouldn't mind it being 90% of the team in 3/4 years time! Add in Cole, Mako, Youngs, Youngs, Wood, Croft, Farrell and it's looking tasty.

So nice to see us playing a FB at FB and two proper tricky wingers with pace! JJ needs a good game, he's had an average season. Good to see Corbs back in an England shirt though

England team
15. Mike Brown (Harlequins)
14. Christian Wade (Wasps)
13. Jonathan Joseph (London Irish)
12. Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester Rugby)
11. Marland Yarde (London Irish)
10. Freddie Burns (Gloucester Rugby)
9. Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens)
1. Alex Corbisiero (London Irish)
2. Rob Webber (Bath Rugby, captain)
3. David Wilson (Bath Rugby)
4. Joe Launchbury (London Wasps)
5. Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby)
6. Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs)
7. Matt Kvesic (Worcester Warriors)
8. Ben Morgan (Gloucester Rugby)

Replacements
16. David Paice (London Irish)
17. Joe Marler (Harlequins)
18. Henry Thomas (Sale Sharks)
19. Kearnan Myall (Unattached)
20. Billy Vunipola (London Wasps)
21. Haydn Thomas (Exeter Chiefs)
22. Kyle Eastmond (Bath Rugby)
23. Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby)

it looks like a decent side. Some of the selections are what I would hope for and expect for Argentina.