Season 6 Homepage III

2012/2013 – Leicester Tigers 
2011/2012 – Newcastle Falcons 
2010/2011 - Newcastle Falcons 
2009/2010 – Saracens 
2008/2009 - London Irish

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POS		Aviva Premiership	PLAYED	WON	DREW	LOST	P F	P A	P D	T F	T A	TBP	LBP	POINTS
1		Leicester Tigers	16	13	0	3	402	356	46	41	28	1	3	56
2		London Wasps #	16	13	0	3	398	354	44	40	29	1	3	53
3		Northampton Saints #	16	9	1	6	393	390	3	36	35	1	6	44
4		Newcastle Falcons	16	8	3	5	388	383	5	34	34	0	5	43
5		Gloucester	16	8	1	7	393	370	23	36	33	1	7	41
6		Sale Sharks #	16	7	3	6	397	385	12	39	33	1	6	39
7		Harlequins #	16	7	2	7	401	393	8	40	36	2	8	39
8		Saracens	16	5	1	10	335	362	-27	25	31	1	9	32
9		London Irish #	16	5	1	10	380	378	2	35	35	1	10	31
10		Exeter Chiefs	16	4	2	10	360	376	-16	27	34	0	10	30
11		Worcester Warriors #	16	4	3	9	361	402	-41	28	36	0	8	28
12		Bath Rugby #	16	4	1	11	347	404	-57	31	42	0	9	23

Links

Fixture List
Released/Championship/National League/Academy Bidding
Foreign Transfers
Budgets
European Homepage
Anglo Welsh Homepage

Senior Squads wrote:
The maximum squad size is 40 senior players.  If a team has more than 40 players in their squad then they will be fined £1 million per player over the permitted amounts per day for the first seven days. If after 7 consecutive days a team still has more than the permitted number of players then the team will be fined £2 million per player per day, and fined 1 league point per player per day for the next seven days. If after this time a team still has more than the permitted number of players in their squad, the RFU (me) will remove players at its discretion to bring them back under the permitted numbers. There will be no right of appeal to players being removed.

Be aware that all tier one international matches which are played during the season will count in the game, and players selected in the match day 23's for those matches will not be eligible to play for their clubs on that weekend, therefore you must give due consideration to the make-up of your squad.

Academy Rules wrote:
Each team will be allowed to have an academy squad of 20 players.  Players who are in the academy must be born on or after 1st September 1991.

Any player, who is at any Premiership club in real life, either in their senior, academy or AASE squads, can be bid for on the domestic bidding page.  Players who are at your own club in real life and are coming through the academy system must be bid for if you want them in your own academy.

Transfers wrote:

• Domestic (other AP Teams)
  Each team has a budget to use in the purchase of players. Domestic transfers between AP clubs, regardless of nationality of player, should be negotiated between the respective managers, and then confirmed on the Domestic Transfer Confirmation Page.
  
• Domestic (Championship and below)
  Each team may during the season purchase no more than 5 players from the Championship or the National Leagues.  These players must be bid for on the Domestic Transfer Bidding page, and each bid will be considered by me on its own merits before being accepted or rejected.  No bid will be accepted until a minimum of 24 hours has elapsed from the time the bid was made, in order to afford other managers the opportunity to make a counter bid.
  
• Foreign
  To make a foreign transfer (i.e. from any club outside of the AP, regardless of whether the player is English) a bid should be made on the Foreign Transfers Page, which will be considered by me against the posted guidelines for purchase prices before being accepted or rejected. No bid will be accepted until a minimum of 24 hours has elapsed from the time the bid was made, in order to afford other managers the opportunity to make a counter bid.
  
  There will be a summer foreign transfer window, which will run as follows.
  
  Structured Window
  
  No cash will be used and each team will get effectively free transfers by way of a draft, which will run 12th, 11th, 10th …… 1st, 12th, 11th,10th… 1st place side.  This will run from 10th June 2013 until all teams have had their two picks. 
  
  Open Window
  
  Open transfer window, teams have unlimited bids provided they have the financial resources to cover them.  Teams may only bid for one player at a time.
  
  

Player Releases wrote: 
Managers may choose to release players from their clubs, for which they will be offered compensation

Compensation will be paid as follows

£2 million – current international (must have played international rugby in the previous 12 months)
£1.5 million – former international
£1m – top flight experience
£0.5m – other

All released players will be deemed to have joined a Championship side and can be bid for on the Domestic Transfer Bidding page.

Retirements wrote:
There will be no compensation for retiring players.  Should a player who retires decide to come out of retirement and play again, then he will automatically go back to the club who he was playing for in the game when he retired.

Fixtures wrote:
There will be 22 Aviva Premiership games per season, plus the play offs. There will also be Heineken Cup, Amlin Challenge Cup and Anglo Welsh Cup matches.  These games will take place once a week. A match thread will be put up every Monday.  Home teams must be named by midnight on Tuesday.  Away teams must be named by midnight on Wednesday.  Both teams must provide tactics by midnight on Thursday.  Predictions will be open from 00:01 hours on Friday and remain open until 20:00 hours on Saturday.  Managers will post the scores that they think will happen from these games (apart from games in which they are involved).  An average of all predictions will be taken, and then 0.5 points added to each teams score for each prediction that had them as the winner, and that will then be the final score.

Managers are asked to provide detail as to why they have predicted a result.  To be considered a descriptive prediction this must be a full 3 lines long when entered into the text box.  If you are not providing a descriptive prediction you will be restricted to predicting a 1 point win either way.

Teams wrote:
When naming your team, not only should you put the starting XV and replacements, but also tactics that your team will employ. Results will be affected by the tactics described.

In addition, each team must have the following:-

At least 10 England qualified players in your match day 23, and at least 4 of those must be in your starting XV.

At least 2 props and 1 hooker on the bench.

All players must be eligible (not injured or banned).

Failure to comply with these rules will result in forfeiting the match and a 1 league point deduction.

If you fail to submit a team for a match, then the other team will be automatically awarded a 30-0 bonus point win. If both teams fail to submit a team, then it will be scored as a 0-0 draw.

Injuries and Suspensions wrote:
Injuries in this game do NOT reflect real life, they will be generated by me.

Players banned in real life will be ineligible for selection in this game for the duration of the ban.

Inclusion of injured/banned players will result in them being replaced by players on the bench, and the bench not having eight players, which may result in punishment if it concerns the front-row.

Punishment for fielding an ineligible player will be loss of one match point for a first offence, two for a second offence and so on.

Financial Rewards wrote:
There will be no rewards for the result of an individual match, instead the managers will receive cash for predicting.

£2m for descriptive predictions 
£0.25m for scores on the doors predictions
If you fail to predict without first advising me that you are unable to do so that week, you will be fined £1m for a first offence, £2m for a second offence, £3m for a third offence etc.

AP finishing positions.

Champions: 8m
Runners Up: 6m
Playoff Semi Finalist Losers: 5m
5th: 4m
6th: 3.5m
7th: 3m
8th: 2.5m
9th: 2m
10th: 1.5m
11th: 1m
12th: 0.5m

Heineken Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £2 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £3 million each
Runners Up - £4 million
Champions - £5 million

Amlin Challenge Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £1 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £2 million each
Runners Up - £3 million
Champions - £4 million

Anglo-Welsh Cup

Losing Semi Finalist - £1 million each
Runners Up - £2 million
Champions - £3 million


If your budgets falls below minus £10 million for any reason, the administrators (ozzy3213) will step in and players from within your squad will be released for the relevant financial compensation in order to bring your budget back above minus £10 million.

anonmattyt wrote:May was not great today nick but also was not used properly.

We don't play with fluidity and are not dangerous ball in hand like SH teams.
May brown and Nowell offer us that threat although they have to try to do it themselves as we don't create much.

Our first phase play is very disappointing and our response to turnover ball needs to be sped up. It's the only time defences are out of position so needs to be exploited.

We are a fine side and defensively great. However we are miles away from having a sharp attack and challenging NZ.

Launch and Lawes however are turning in to a great lock pair. Lock has amazing players in the world game right
Now

Etzbeth, du toit, whitelock ,gray ,bakkies, Horwill , poc and many more.

ChequeredJersey wrote:

anonmattyt wrote:May was not great today nick but also was not used properly.

We don't play with fluidity and are not dangerous ball in hand like SH teams.
May brown and Nowell offer us that threat although they have to try to do it themselves as we don't create much.

Our first phase play is very disappointing and our response to turnover ball needs to be sped up. It's the only time defences are out of position so needs to be exploited.

We are a fine side and defensively great. However we are miles away from having a sharp attack and challenging NZ.

Launch and Lawes however are turning in to a great lock pair. Lock has amazing players in the world game right
Now

Etzbeth, du toit, whitelock ,gray ,bakkies, Horwill , poc and many more.

I disagree I think we, and certainly not just the new wingers, have been looking increasingly fluid and dangerous and spontaneous and our forwards have been increasingly better at link play. We aren't there yet but the improvements are definitely there, especially as our previous big wins have been based off forward domination with relatively blunt attack, NZ included

anonmattyt wrote:Worst gambler in the world also. We are off to Cheltenham Tuesday and I cannot remember him ever having a winner

SirJohnnyEnglish wrote:

anonmattyt wrote:Worst gambler in the world also. We are off to Cheltenham Tuesday and I cannot remember him ever having a winner

Any tips for the week?! Rock on Ruby is my fancy for Tuesday. Other horses i'm in for are Our Conor for the champion hurdle and Annie Power for the world hurdle. Would be on Quevega but haven't the funds to make it worthwhile while shes odds on

SirJohnnyEnglish wrote:1F is back   
Ferris on the bench for Ulster this week

Driver wrote:Guys ,

Something i'v picked up on of late in predictions. People are getting marked down in they're tactics for not writing down something which would be part of a normal players routine. I know SJE loves a good tactical battle and he picks up when people don't mention that a 9 doesn't sweep in tactics where for me this is a essential role a 9 does anyway. 

I don't pick up on it when predicting but just curious as to what people see as a given with out it being wrote into the tactics.