Newcastle Falcons Fantasy Rugby

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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

What for Brussow mate, I'm very keen on him.

They involved Weepu...

I've always loved him personally, and he's looked very bright since coming back from injury. Pushing Cowan all the way for the WC spot IMO.

Which players of mine would you want included mate?

Haha sorry mate I'm all over the place today! Surely there is something we can do!

Fair enough mate, dont really think I can sacrifice that after working so hard on my squad!

That's a decent offer mate, but I am struggling with losing 2 English and only getting one back.

Would you do Parling instead of Pape?

Sorry mate, I only recently sold Schofield and don't want him back.

I'd be interested in PDJ, anything we can do?

Blair would be ideal for us. Got some very raw talent on the wings in Brady, Amesbury and Addison and he would be ideal to try and bring it together.

As for that list of players Donnelly is the only player I can foresee leaving. At this point in time I'd be looking for a straight swap with Vermaulen if I was to deal

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Seen this mate:

http://www.espnscrum.com/ireland/rugby/story/145218.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

You're going to have some options come WC time

You mean the Exeter centre Gordan D'Arcy lol?

Which of your fifty locks could leave

FVDM, Parling, Kruger

Pooly coonie not for sale. Think he is a one off and will become a bok superstar. This may bite me on the butt saying this but I would not swap him for mccaw. That's how highly i rate him.

Think elstadt coonie etc will be wc players

Don't want to loan them out at the moment I'm afraid

Newcastle

1 Grant Shiells
2 Matt Thompson
3 Ashley Wells
4 Glen Townson
5 Tim Swinson
6 Will Welch
7 Redford Pennycook
8 Ally Hogg
9 Jordi Pasqualin
10 Greg Goosen
11 Ryan Shortland
12 Jamie Helleur
13 Luke Eves
14 Rikki Sheriffe
15 Alex Tait

Not the most reassuring team lol , can only see the championship entrance coming next year. Meant to be a big announcement in the next week with regards to recruitment and it's not going to be good news either from what i'v been told!

Yeah it was mate , think we'll go down this year as Worcester have a good pack and a better back line than ours.

In comparison they look miles better

Mullen/Golding
Lutui/Thompson
Ceri Jones/Euan Murrey
Giles/James Hudson
Chris Jones/Van
Best/Wilson
Sanderson/Tuifua
Kvesic/Hogg

Perry(Arr)/Pasqualin
Goode/Goppereth
Benjiman/Fielden
Grove/Shortlland
Tuipolotu/Tait
Garvey/Sheriffe
Pennall/Catterick

It's whether we have Goppereths shooting boots next season , there's a reason why Gooson has been playing 10. Don't think they expected goppy to leave and where going to ease catterick in over the season as he's not ready to play 10 at AP yet so they must be rushing godson into 10 as a quick fix

No worries. Enjoy New York mate!

I'm basically needing southern hemisphere replacements, as I struggle during the 6Nations as most of my team is European!

Fitz, Ojo, Hipkiss, Alexander interest me from that list

Lydiate is better than mate.

Alexander 4 Perugini/Zirakshvilli

work off that?

Roncero looks like his backs about to give way every time he goes down to scrum

No thanks especially now Beattie is with me for the WC

Nani?

Or the fact he's ancient

Over double my age :p

what for hipkiss?

What you after for Ojo mate?

Keen on Ojo and McAllister too mate

Amesbury + Crane
for
Ojo?

Can't lose Young bud, starting SH for Int periods.

I'd need him for all other Internationals though mate.

Crane a decent bench option though - you don't have many EQ back rowers at all.

would love to loan fitzgerald or hipkiss most of all Jared Payne??

nice one that would be well helpful.

My team is looking good for the WC but a bit short on depth

Go and ENJOY your holiday mate and stop trying to be a Del-Boy with your dealings lol.

Enjoying it so far?

With the players you mentioned I would be looking for better players than Ojo, Hipkiss and McAlister, or be offering other centres as part of the deal.

Unfortunately you listed a lot of players that i wouldnt want to get rid of - will have a think about it!

Fraid not. Don't want to lose any of them

Not keen on losing Robinson for Roncero

I'm not the biggest fan of those three players mate, think they work well in the free flowing rugby of s15, but have said quite a few times on these boards that I dont think all s15 players would make the transition across to the English league.

Also I think that Barritt doesnt play your gameplan that well - he works for Sarries, but could stiffle a lot of your attacks...

Still think you've got a good backline, would like to see a big 12/13, say like a Lualala or Tindall in there - someone a bit better than Barritt.

Fitz for Brown???

How about that loan of a centre mate!

What would you want for them? Also, do you know if Tom Youngs has been snapped up by anyone?

how abo hipkiss?

Depends mate on how my midfield is rated this week - He should play this week or next after that i'll know how he is rated and if i need him or not

Think McAlister might have had it mate, he's too hot and cold for my liking. Would you do Mitchell for Barritt?

Hmmm when you put it like that lol

Would you add anything else in at your end, just that Mitchell is still an international.

Ok mate I'll deal

Done mate, will update my page later going out now

SOrry for slow response, been all over the UK the last 5 days!

Lualala has proven his game is suited to Eng/Wales for last 3 years - also Siviatu in my opinion is ideal for the more robust nature of the AP, which is far more forward orientated than the s15. Not convinced that Savea would too though.

I think a lot of southern hem players look much better than what they are due to the way the game is played in southern hem. There is a lot of rain in NZ etc, but the pitches dont turn into mudbaths like they do Oct-Feb in the UK.

I've always tried to bring in players that suit the AP conditions, e.g. Hayman, Davies, Albacete, Elsom, Phillips, Lualala etc.

A top class 22 year old only improving....maybe

Need FVDM/Kruger and quite a big gain.

Who are untouchables