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Balance - £28 Million

Honours

Aviva Premiership Winner 2008/2009
LV Cup Champions 2010/2011

Squad

J.B Poux - Loosehead / Tighthead Prop
G. Shiells - Loosehead Prop
M. Stevens - Loosehead Prop / Tighthead Prop

M. Castrogiovanni - Tighthead Prop
WP. Nel - Tighthead Prop
B. Harris - Tighthead Prop

A. Hore - Hooker
J. Buckland - Hooker
T. Lindsay - Hooker
D. Fourie - Hooker (On loan from Gloucester for 4 weeks)

D. Mumm - Lock
N. Kennedy - Lock
S. Hooper - Lock
M. Garvey - Lock
J. Muller - Lock

J. Kaino - Blinside Flanker
Y. Nyanga - Blindside Flanker

H. Fourie - Openside Flanker
S. Armitage - Openside Flanker
W. Fraser - Openside Flanker

P. Spies - Number 8
N. Talei - Number 8
K. Daniel - Number 8

N. De Kock - Scrum Half
J. Dupuy - Scrum Half
R. Pienaar - Scrum Half

S. Geraghty - Fly Half / Centre
L. Beauxis - Fly Half
N. Evans - Fly Half
E. Jantjies - Fly Half

L. McAllister - Inside Centre / Fly Half
S. Naqalevuki - Inside / Outside Centre

C. Smith - Outside Centre
M. Bastereaud - Outside Centre
M. Evans - Outside Centre / Wing

S. Tagicakibau - Wing
J.P Pieterson - Wing
B. Basson - Wing

D. Armitage - Full Back / Wing
Z. Kirchner - Fullback

Academy Players

M. Anderson - Hooker
K. Low - Lock
G. Armitage - Wing / Outside Centre
D. Sisi - Flanker
A. Watson - Winger
M. Yarde - Winger
M. Morgan - Fly Half
J. Moates - Scrum Half
M. Coetzee - Blindside Flanker
J. Taufua - Number 8
G. Ellis - Hooker / Flanker

First Choice XV

1 Jean Baptiste Poux
2 Andrew Hore
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Matt Garvey
5 Johann Muller
6 Yannick Nyanga
7 Steffon Armitage
8 Pierre Spies
9 Ruan Pienaar
10 Nick Evans
11 Bjorn Basson
12 Luke McAllister
13 Conrad Smith
14 JP Pieterson
15 Delon Armitage

16 Matt Stevens
17 Tom Lindsay
18 WP Nel
19 Stuart Hooper
20 Will Fraser
21 Julien Dupuy
22 Shane Geraghty
23 Marland Yarde

I'd need

Murray + Rougerie + Steffs + May
4
Fourie + Castro + Garvey + Tait + £16m

No chance mate, looking for cash and I rate Rougerie > as Fourie is in Japan

Nah thanks don't really want to lose Rougerie unless I get a lot out of it

Can't let him go after just buying him sorry. Only after a good hooker and th

Yep sorry!!

25m (he's EQ who wont go 6N)

How much cash need more than £10m

18m + Botes would be a deal

Not sure mate, probably only fringe players. Maybe player + cash on something

Who you after?

Maurtiz Botha, Hendre Fourie and Steffon Armitage all interest me.

tiny, Steffon, Fourie interest me

havent we already discussed rougerie 4 fourie....

Castro?

ok

Botha?

Parling nfs, I knew we'd struggle lol

What for Pienaar, Low, Sisi and Yarde mate?

Not selling Lahiff mate. Could maybe consider Narraway and a bit of cash for Sisi and Yarde.

Wouldn't need Kennedy and Low mate, but would do Kennedy, Sisi and Yarde for Borthwick and Narraway.

He's got a lot of potential for definite, just a question of how well he comes through.

My issue with losing Gray is that I am losing Narraway and Gray would be my next english 8, so not keen on losing both.

What about

Kennedy, Low, Sisi and Yarde

For

Borthwick, Narraway, Will Fraser and Jake Sharp

You get 2 internationals along with 2 good young English talents with potential and I get 1 international and 3 young lads with potential.

Mullan is not available at present, but potentially could be at the end of the season.

how about if I gave you Stowers or Hala'ufia as an 8?
keen to get a deal done but Sisi is one I want to hold on to for a while.

Sorry mate, got no interest in Stowers or Hala'ufia as they are likely to spend half the season on bans.

Best I can do in relation to adding to the above to get the deal done is throw in someone like James Scaysbrook who is a solid EQ option.

stnick88 wrote:Ok

so were looking at

Narraway, Borthwick, Scaysbrook
for
Kennedy, Sisi, Yarde

I'll let you know today

Not quite, I was saying I could add Scaysbrook to the offer above....

Ozzy3213 wrote:My issue with losing Gray is that I am losing Narraway and Gray would be my next english 8, so not keen on losing both.

What about

Kennedy, Low, Sisi and Yarde

For

Borthwick, Narraway, Will Fraser and Jake Sharp

You get 2 internationals along with 2 good young English talents with potential and I get 1 international and 3 young lads with potential.

Any chance of a loan deal for Dupuy over the 6N?

What for Kaino?

Kaino ??

And me....

No probs, I'd need a gain on Smith anyway so think we're a long way apart

Lol....I was waiting for that. Love Kaino but Smith is standout BS in rugby when fit. Admitably he isn't but he'll be back soon, form wise Kaino is untouchable I agree.

stnick88 wrote:could loan you de Kock?

Would be helpful mate, cheers.

Thanks mate.

What for Butch James?

What sort of thing for Hernandez?

I'm not sure how people rate Hernandez these days due to all of his injuries - would de Villiers be of interest?

What for Kennedy and Botha?

Driver - RIP 606 wrote:What for Butch James?

Any chance of a reply lol

Also in for Botha as much as it pains me to admit it.

I don't want to lose Pisi as he's the form 13 in the AP. Hudson would take a big deal.

Would need to be a massive offer that involved Steffon for me to sell either of them mate.

Jacques Burger could potentially go if the deal was right, the rest are NFS.

Steffon Armitage?

hernandez for de villiers, lamont and geragthy?

Not looking to sell any of my youngsters mate, probably bit I enjoy most in the game is finding a youngster who then becomes an international and think all of the ones you mentioned will!

Looks like I might have a late boost for our game this week with Dickson and Warburton possibly availible!

Sorry mate he isn't for Sale.

Side and tactics in. if you do some Game specific tactics then let me know and I will add some later on.

Hello mate. To answer your question I had it as pretty even with you both winning battle in different areas. I liked the balance in both of your sides. Specifically with yours I thought the pack was a good balance of loose play and set piece, although I think that Quins may have got a little bit of a nudge on at scrum time, but that was only marginal. Bigger names in the backs for you, but enough quality and form in the Quins side to keep that even, so the overiding decider for me with it being so even was home advantage. Had it been at the MadStad I would have had you winning by a point.

I think a lot of the teams are really evenly matched right now, so I come down mainly on the side of form. The next month will be interesting with Super Rugby kicking off again, as lots of people have a lot of SH players in their sides. How they perform in rela life i think could have a massive bearing on how predictions go in this league. For yourself, if Kaino, Spies, Basson, JP, SBW and Fourie get off to a flyer, then I suspect you will start picking up wins very quickly.

Hi Nick

Sorry for not getting back to you previously been away and stacked at work. 14 hour days and then rugby training in the evening do not work for me!!!

Burger never for sale.

JDJ could be sold but i rate him super highly maybe a little too highly as he needs to show his undoubted qualities consistently and nail his bok place which he probably will do now that lunatic PDV has gone,

Kahui plays 2 positions equally well so cant really sell him

Of your players i really really like kaino and Spies so would look to do JDJ +??? or Straight swap for Kahui

Close game mate, thought you might sneak it after first few predo's! Phew lol