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

Crazy really because we played so well on the buildup, depressing really

Wish our game could actually take place. Would be a great game.

I decided to omit ripping POC for his mistake at the weekend. Have you seen it?? Contact skills went missing.

He just got a bit of a spanking in contact in his own 22 and castres through it wide and scored.

I haven't got one player starting who started in last years game. Only Marler, Cooper, Lowe and Gaskell remain.

Sorry mate, that wasn't very clear in your tactics, it looked to me like that was the pack that you'd be having for the second half, not just starting it.

Play him at 13 - I would ahead of Smith away from home. Just think you lack someone with a bit of extra grunt, like say a poweful Nonu/de Villiers type player. I do like Barritt as a player, but honestly think that he would struggle against the top class players to smash through a defensive line. If you can get someone else like that then you've argauably got a great backline - would have given you a win at home

Having Steyn at 10 and Fourie as 13 is quite a big contributing factor to the Boks wings not needing hands to catch a ball. JDV is a very intelligent player, watched him loads of times when I was young as got told he was the perfect 12 to learn the game from. Positional play is spot on and defensive work great. Picked him this week as thought he would be best player to stop Nonu breaking the gainline, and had in my tactics that I'd be bringing a backrower like Elsom or Messam into the backline to get double hits on Nonu.

Not sure how many will pick up on it, but think if you can stop the threat of Nonu offensively you can stop Sarries building momentum as Nonu is such an unbelievable threat.

Best player to stop Nonu though, and pretty certain that Giteau and Evans have enough play making ability to stop the perceived inability of de Villiers passing game!

Halfway through predictions and its very very tight by the looks of things.

Just seen your question about Goode or Lahiff. Can't really see anything mate as would need either similar English or better foreign and would need a full back in any deal for Goode, and can't see you letting AAC or JOC go for him.

Yeah, i do have a reasonable depth at loosehead and 4 of them are English. Not sure how I managed that.

Would do Waller for Alex Gray.

Have you won your game with quins!?! Tight affair.

George Pisi for Drew Mitchell?

A lot of the thrust in the Times article even from Robshaw himself was that he would rather get in the team and establish himself before even being considered for Captaincy.

O shea thinks he is another richard hill. Richard Hill was not selected for England until he was 24 and Robshaw is currently 25.

He deserves a chance to play however to make him captain would be ludicrous.

I still am unsold on him as an England player though

where did that come from??

I was reading chris and a few other people saying they were sold on Robshaws leadership. Thought it was on your page but obviously not.

Might be on one of the previous pages.

Whenever i use my desktop it is always about 3 pages behind the current page as rarely use it.

What for Waller

Roncero and Hipkiss......

I'd be in for Hipkiss

He's probably my form 8 at the moment!! Can't seem to stop getting motm's!!

Oh right, is that olly for both of them?

Think I'll keep Morgan cheers bud!

I'll have to think and get back to you! Wish I hadn't let Roncero go!!

Can't lose Sheridan he's my starting loosehead where as I be using Hipkiss as a squad man

there isnt really anyone that I want from the list, and can;t see any deals because i think we rate the players you want and I want completely differently.

domingo always gets rated and quite happy to keep him and wait for him to recover, as no point in getting a player who isnt anywhere near world class in return for him.

webber's a heck of a lot better than you give him credit for, but if that's what you want to believe I wont attempt to change your opinion.

Hartley's actually played like that for the best part of 6 months (since the Wales game) - he had one poor game at the WC and one bad game for Saints since he came back home, which was on tv, so I get why people would think he is on bad form.

Webber has played very well for Wasps this season and their scrum is actually not going backwards like it has been because he has actually got two solid locks to support him. He's not a bad scrummager, again I understand why people would think that because of how Wasps scrum has performed over last 2 seasons, but not the case anymore.

You've got to keep up with these things Pooly!

Not starting any of them this week, got to bring them in slowly and get them to learn all the calls etc.

I'm regretting making some errors with signings in the foreigns at the moment, should have kept my money for bigger players than Mason, Lapandy, Savea etc.

Pretty sure that Gill, Bleyendaal will shine in a season or twos time.

Hello mate are you ok for me to get
My tactics in by 8am. I am still in London on phone and want to do the game justice. Get back about 11pm
Tonight and left home at 5am

Newcastle Falcons

15 Greg Goosen , 14 Suka Hufanga , 13 Corne Uys , 12 James Fitzpatrick , 11 Ryan Shortland , 10 Jimmy Gopperth , 9 Jordi Pasqualin , 8 Ally Hogg, 7 Will Welch , 6 Taiasina Tuifua , 5 Andrew Van Der Heijden , 4 James Hudson , 3 Euan Murray ,2 Michael Mayhew , 1 Grant Shiells ,

Replacements 16 Joe Graham , 17 Ashley Wells , 18 Dan Frazier , 19 Adriaan Fondse , 20 Mark Wilson , 21 Chris Pilgrim , 22 Jamie Helleur , 23 Tom Catterick


Glad to see Welchy given game time at 7 but it just pisses me off that Gopperth is in poor form and we keep Catterick on the bench who is a solid goal kicker and a real talent! Hufanga should give us some finishing class and Tuifau should make an impact in the back row.

Make an offer

I'm a bit light in the second row mate any chance i can borrow Flip?

What for Brown?

Allen needs WC/top english

Marty + Williams; Looking for LH, HK (maybe), LK, BR, WG, FB..

What did you make of Gooson last night? Looked a pretty decent full back and managed to play his way out of danger a few times.

Need a 7 big time! We got schooled from where i was watching granted i'd had a few beveys to keep warm. Will Skinner wouldn't be a bad call!

I havn't watched it yet on the TV so i'v missed the little things like that. Welch has some potential at 7 but i think he could be a pretty powerful 8!

Hudson was pretty big round the pitch and impressive in the lineout!. Jordi's service was all over the shop.

Fitzy was typical in the sense that he ran into brick walls and made head way which is all he really does although i'm sure he ripped the ball a few times.

That does interest me!

Yer I'll deal on that....Give Chris a bit of time to see if he can come up with something better know he likes Williams...he has till 12?...sound fair?

Kinda having second thoughts about if they will come through as much as Williams.

would need schofield or parling involved.

he is playing well for toulon, but thinking about it have had him twice and shipped him on twice so dont want him again really. getting on a bit now as well so may retire in the next year or two.

why do you want him anyway, you have loads of locks!!

not really mate, handy player to have as an EQ.

Gonna have a look at him for a little longer I think. Need to see what he is like and whether he would be any use to me.

Difficult to tell I think. Wallace has looked a top talent but I think you could have put anyone in the Quins side of late and they'd look decent.

Jones looked good with the under 20's in the summer but will have to play well to look decent in the wasps pack atm. Really been hit with injuries.

Woodburn is the killer, great prospect!

Will have a little think about it :P

Deal

Good deal that ITFL , really improves your side

Great front row you have out this week. Barcella despite
Playing in side struggling looks good again. Amazed how few
Games he has played in his life.

Originally Toulouse
And played 1 time in 2 years and has 50 appearances in 4 years for biarritz.

Off to watch biarritz vs Toulon on new years eve. Looking forward
To hari and Barcella. How are they bottom ?

My Biarritz trip is my Xmas present to myself staying in san Sebastian Spain it's the gourmet capital of world and 40 mins from Biarritz so ideal. All basques.

Barcella is all action like Keith wood. If you do everything at 100% you breakdown more often.

I used to keep scrambler bikes and they were
Tuned 100% and went wrong every 3 or 4 races. Moody Ferris Keith wood Michael jones etc all in same bracket for being balls out and not knowing when to slow.

Barcella vs SA years ago best performance by a prop for years. Healy came near in one wc game but Barcella can scrum

I think we had a bidding war over him.


France produces props and would work
Wonders. Some
Of
The Georgians are ferocious
Also.

You should read the book http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0091930685. Fantastic read