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NEWCASTLE FALCONS
HEINEKEN CUP WINNERS 2009/10
AVIVA PREMIERSHIP CHAMPIONS 2010/11

Main site: https://www.606v2.com/f41-fantasy-aviva-premiership-season-4


Current Budget: 16m

Head Coach:PoolyPunk
Assistant Coach: John Bentley
Director of rugby: Declan Kidney
Forwards Coach: Fran Cotton
Backs Coach's: Johnathan Edwards
Attacking Coach: Jason Robinson
Kicking Coach: Neil Jenkins
Defense Coach: Mike Ford
Conditioning Coach:Craig White
Newcastle A Coach: Tony Underwood
Retired: Richard Blaze


HK William Servat (France)*
HK Marius Tincu (Romania)
HK Rory Best (Ireland)
HK Tom Lindsay (England)

PR Paul Doran-Jones (TH/LH) (England)
PR Owen Franks (TH/LH) (New Zealand)
PR Craig Mitchell (TH) (Wales)
PR Oliver Tomaszczyk (TH)(England)*

PR Fabien Barcella(LH) (France)
PR Alex Waller (LH) (England)
PR Rodrigo Roncero (LH) (Argentina)
PR Boris Stankovich(LH) (England)
PR Grant Shiells (LH) (England)*

LK Paul O'Connell (Ireland)
LK Ed Slater (England)
LK Brad Thorn (New Zealand)
LK Geoff Parling (England)
LK Juandre Kruger (South Africa)
LK Yoann Maestri (France)

FL Juan Smith (South Africa)
FL Richie McCaw(c) (New Zealand)
FL Heinrich Brussow (South Africa)
FL Chris Robshaw (England)
FL Guy Mercer (England)
FL Kelly Brown (Scotland)

N8 Kieran Read (New Zealand)
N8 Toby Faletau (Wales) (12/11/90)
N8 Chris York (England)
N8 Duane Vermeulen (South Africa)

SH Ben Youngs (England)
SH Sarel Pretorious (South Africa)
SH Jonny Arr (England)

FH Toby Flood (England)
FH Nick Evans (New Zealand)
FH Colin Slade (New Zealand) - on loan at Exeter

CE James O'Connor (Austrailia)
CE Jaque Fourie (South Afica)
CE Frans Steyn (South Africa)
CE Brad Barritt (England)
CE Dan Hipkiss (England)*
CE Jared Payne (New Zealand)
CE Ben Williams (England)

WG Drew Mitchell (Austrailia)
WG Sean Maitland (New Zealand)
WG Miles Benjamin (England)
WG Tommy Bowe (Ireland)

FB Ben Smith (New Zealand)
FB Alex Goode (England)
FB Adam Ashley-Cooper (Austrailia)

Academy: (01/09/90)

HK Nathan Morris (England) (3/3/1993)
PR Luke Cowen-Dickie (England) (20/6/1993)
HK George McGuigan (England) (30/3/1993)
PR Scott Wilson (England)
BR Joe Robinson (England) (6/3/1993)
BR Joel Conlon (England)
BR Euan Dods (England)
FH Joel Hodgson (England) (1/8/1992)
FH Grant Connon (England)
FH Henry Slade (England) (19/3/1993)
CE Andrew Forsyth (England)
CE Chris Harris (England)
CE Sam Jones (England)
WG Zach Kibirige (England)


Injuries:(Available week in brackets)

Dean Schofield - Week 32 - Heineken Cup/Challenge Cup Quarter Finals
Richie McCaw - Week 33 - Aviva Premiership Round 20
Brad Barritt - Week 34 - Aviva Premiership Round 21
Adam Ashley-Cooper - Week 35 - Heineken Cup/Challenge Cup Semi Final
Heinrich Brussow - Week 36 - Aviva Premiership Round 22

Would be good if he isn't called up to the WC but he probably will. Oh well good to have him back. Can rotate him next year

On form he is one of the top 10 wingers in the world but to fit him in either have to drop Medard or start English elsewhere.

Miles better than Bowe + JOC. Swap em both for him *whistle*

Yer it is nice to have up my sleeve in case of injuries

Not interested

Lindsay + Kruger

Botha + Skivington

It's that part of the deal i'm not keen on and imagine that's the part your after.

O.Franks + J.Kruger 4 D.Lydiate + D.Kubrashvilli

Make me an offer

Interested in Mcalister

You get Lydiate surely thats enough

Not sure then mate :L make a bid?

Who would you offer for Gomez?

Anybody else you could offer?

I'll take Skirving

Unless you can see a bigger player for Orlandi?

Tomaszczyk is 24, Grant Shiells 21, Billy Moss 23 and Tom Caterick just falls outside of the age group required for the acadamy Pooly

You know the rules lol got till Saturday 9pm to sort it out mate

My bad Mr.Ridgy

Lol I thought i'd got rid of you...

LukeLovesLuka wrote:Youngs Signs New Deal

Leicester Tigers have announced that Ben Youngs has signed a new deal keeping him at the club till 2014. Youngs has been the subject of much transfer speculation of late, with league champions Newcastle openly keen on signing the scrum half.

Any chance of Hipkiss on loan?

Can I get 1st dibs after the world cup?!

Depending on game time @ Bath but likely

What you after for Ojo mate?

Could offer you 1.5/2mil? Do you know if Fernandez Lobbe is definately retired? Trying to trim my squad a bit for a few players! I know ledesma's going so not sure whether I just release him now?!

Not for sale mate you know how well I rate him

No worries mate, I guess we all have players that we just don't rate and for me McAlister is one of them. When I watch him just doesn't seem to do a great deal in games. I watched the Blues a few times this year and he never impressed me once, albeit he got messed around a bit due to them having no confidence in Brett.

One of his strong points in my view is normally his place kicking, but by the end of the season they had Lachie Munro as the place kicker and he's a 60% man which says a fair bit about where McAlisters game is right now.

Maybe coming back to Europe will help him, I'll watch him closely as I am well aware that I am probably in a minority of one in this game in not rating him.

Yeah, I think over time in this game you kind of know which managers are going to mark you up or down for certain players.

I know for example that Mat will look at Ioane and Nonu and say poor hands whereas others will see Narraway as a weakness for me. That's why I've been looking at so many combos over the summer and not really worrying about results so that I can work out what is my best chance of getting the most positive predictions form the most people when the season starts.

Predos always interest me, as sometimes we are all guilty of pointing out the negatives in teams. Next season I am going to try to make a conscious effort to point out the positives and why 1 team would win as opposed to the negatives and why the other would lose.

Yeah, like I said it's good to know in advance how people will see things.

Am crossing my fingers that 1 or 2 fringe international players in my squad don't make the plane to NZ.

Lipman not for sale mate. Will be using him during the world cup.
Could get Salvi involved in a deal for 1 of McAlister, Vermeulen or Van Der Merwe?

I like Flip mate but Elsadt looks a different species all together. Elsadt/Bekker I think for the longterm for the Boks

Would add some one like Ngwenya to even it out? Salvi and Ngwenya for preferably 1 of Flip/Vermulean?

Fair enough on Flip/Vermulean. Suggest a deal for either and we can see where we could go from there

Just think Elsadt looks a top prospect and he has that link up at the Stormers currently with Bekker. Flip maybe getting in short term after the world cup with Bakkies heading up north but will be Elsadt/Bekker not before to long for me

I think Elsadt will be long term lock. could even see it post WC especially if PDV is gone.

The guy is some player. i was so tempted to go for him but have so many second rows

Possibly, can see Flip kicking on too as I was saying to Johnny. Be a good battle, two top 4's. Elstadt needs another season under his belt maybe.

I think potential wise Flip is alongside a whole host of decent SA locks. Amazing how many players they have.

Elstadt has something special about him though but yeah think another year will make him.

The locks in theri U20s side were pretty damn impressive as well

I wasn't overly impressed with Hargreaves, don't think he ran the line well at all and offered little in the loose. Thought Elstadt dropped towards the end and was poor in a few games, was a long season for him I guess. Imagine he'll kick on next S15 season.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:What for T Youngs mate?

Can't imagine you'll offer a great deal, and still think he could be a top player...

I'm over the moon with SBW/Fourie, meant to say i need a WC centre.
Looks like I will have Bowden 10, then Bast/Tait at 12/13.
If JMH doesnt make WC then it will be him at 10 with Bowden/Bast 12/13.
Just want a bit of cover really!

Can't offer you much English back for Ojo really.

No offence intended lol, thought you'd offer something like that - no real interest - Duffey is off back to Notts for 2 years.

Hard to price roussouw pooly. as shown on saturday he is still a top player. That said he is off to Japan.

Make an offer but it would need to be good. I am still not sure a lot of these Japan moves will happen

I would not do any of those players for Pape mate. Dont think Pape is anywhere near any of them although a decent player.

Roussouw for vermaulen would be fair if he was not off to Japan i agree however there is lots of speculation that roussouw is going to sign for the brumbies so could still well be a super 15 player

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Super15/White-hunting-Boks-Rossouw-20110725

basically roussouw impossible to price currently. bit like berrick barnes. i seriously thought he would quit and then he has come back although i think he will be monitored closely.

I will pass. think Roussouw better than Pape.

also think Saull/Gray are much much better than woods/duffin

If i'm honest I am very happy with my squad, and the only one of those I would consider losing is Barclay.

I had guessed....

Which back rowers you willing to lose to get him?

Im in the same boat as Luke mate. fairly settled now and would only do deals for any of those lads if they were stacked my way.

Have squad players like Salvi, Horstman, Tait etc available

Not bothered about Brussow really.

My squad changed SO much in my first 6 months in charge - looking to get a bit of stability now.

Sorry, big fan of Biggs.

Try and put something together for Evans maybe?
Know you wouldn't be keen to sell, but I would pay big...

I know who you want, and I accept if I went big he'd have to be included.

Have you got a foreign left?

none are really for sale
Fourie would need Conrad but relucatant to sell him.

From you am interested in Conrad, Evans, read.

Salvi for Hipkiss?

Adam Jones and Graham Kitchener

for

Paul Doran-Jones and ???

Hmmm, thought you had one left, ruins my plan.

Fourie is on the better form at the moment so I wouldnt let him + something go for Smith.
no worries pal.

Not sure, am loathe to lose Kitchener to be honest and not a big Pape fan, dealings are getting tough these days! lol

What about

Jones and 36

for

PDJ and Mermoz

???

I'm struggling a bit mate to see a deal that we're both going to be happy with. I'll give it another go..

Jones and Kitchener

for

PDJ and Brussow

???