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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Sat 07 Jun 2014, 12:41 pm

First topic message reminder :

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Breaking News: Congratulations to London Wasps the 2014 Premiership Champions
 


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2013/2014 – London Wasps
2012/2013 – Leicester Tigers 
2011/2012 – Newcastle Falcons 
2010/2011 - Newcastle Falcons 
2009/2010 – Saracens 
2008/2009 - London Irish





                                             

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Links

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

 
Welcome to Season 7 of the Aviva Premiership fantasy rugby game.  Below are the rules of the game which must be adhered to.  If there are any situations that arise in the course of the game which are not covered by the rules, a final decision will be made by the RFU (SJE) as to how the situation will be resolved.
 
 
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 (SJE) 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 1992. 

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 National League 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.

    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.

    The window will open from the 9th of June but only to those sides that finish 8th and below at first. They will have a week to make one signing each before the window is open to all.     

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 National League 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 European Rugby Champions Cup, European Rugby 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. Failure to meet these deadlines is punishable by the addition of three match points to the oppositions final score, unless both sides fail to do so. Both teams must provide tactics by midnight on Thursday. Predictions will be open from 00:01 hours on Friday and remain open until 15:00 hours on Sunday. 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. 
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:-

For domestic competition at least 8 England qualified players in your match day 23, and at least 4 of those must be in your starting XV.

For European competition at least 8 England qualified players in your match day 23, and at least 6 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 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.
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 upto a maximum of £5m per fine.

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 (SJE) will step in and players from within your squad will be released for the relevant financial compensation (foreign transfer value) in order to bring your budget back above minus £10 million.


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Post by Sgt_Pooly Fri 20 Jun 2014, 4:30 pm

Ben Youngs arguably was at the time with Genia.

Times change and both him and Genia are well down the pecking order.

Pollard is just limited, his passing etc is bordering poor. I don't know why my opinion bothers you so much if he's that good. He certainly didn't show it today when he didn't get an armchair ride.

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Post by Guest Fri 20 Jun 2014, 4:39 pm

Agree to disagree he was decent today

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Post by dammit_chris Fri 20 Jun 2014, 4:43 pm

Bet the Samoan that was in team of the tournament ends up playing for the ABs! Confused with the rules as thought if you played u20 rugby for a nation then you couldn't switch? Or is that just Wales?

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Fri 20 Jun 2014, 4:47 pm

It's a second team Chris.

Yea agree to disagree, I thought he was poor and is extremely limited.

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Fri 20 Jun 2014, 4:50 pm

dammit_chris wrote:Bet the Samoan that was in team of the tournament ends up playing for the ABs! Confused with the rules as thought if you played u20 rugby for a nation then you couldn't switch? Or is that just Wales?

Depends who the union nominates as their 2nd team. See the link below for the current 2nd sides. 
http://www.irb.com/mm/Document/LawsRegs/Regulations/02/06/85/13/140205DOIRBNextSeniorNationalRepresentativeTeam2013and2014.pdf

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Fri 20 Jun 2014, 4:52 pm

Fekitoa was a funny one. Was apparently visiting family in NZ from Tonga when he was 19, was spotted playing rugby and offered a scholarship. 3 years later he's an All Black.

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Post by Guest Fri 20 Jun 2014, 6:56 pm

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Fekitoa was a funny one. Was apparently visiting family in NZ from Tonga when he was 19, was spotted playing rugby and offered a scholarship. 3 years later he's an All Black.


It's all wrong. Is our qualification period 5 years ??

Fekitoa is super exciting. He is raw as hell but can be worked on to be top drawer

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Fri 20 Jun 2014, 7:00 pm

Everywhere is 3 years I think, it's just residancy

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:45 am

What a dreadful start.

AB's have figured out our narrow defence and are getting it out early, this is awful.

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:53 am

Eastmond getting sucked in every time and we are getting absolutely ripped to pieces. Could be a long, long game!

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:53 am

We're not doing anything right?!?! Pack is getting stuffed, set piece is dreadful. Have the backs touched it yet????

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:54 am

They've done their homework on our defence and ripping it to shreds

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:55 am

Defensive system is all wrong. It's all well and good flooding the midfield to cut them off at source, but if they have good hands and shift it quickly, which they do, we are screwed. It's not poor defending from individuals, the system is wrong.
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:57 am

That was never a yellow

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8:58 am

Agree Pete, they've worked out how to get round us. Lucky from Ashton, hard viewing

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:00 am

Missed the yellow, what was it for?
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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:02 am

Never a yellow card there.

We just need to take the pace out of this game - Cruden just attacking the Burns/Eastmond channel so well at the moment.

Think we need Burrell on now.

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:02 am

High tackle Pete - barely a penalty really, just that it was BV on Cruden

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:02 am

High tackle from Billy on Cruden. Very harsh, no intent but Cruden going down, shocking call

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:04 am

Very unlike Yarde, this is just horrendous. Cruden having a great game

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:08 am

Argh this is awful - missed tackle after missed tackle, what was Yarde doing on that one. Every time they go wide they score.

Surely Lancaster can see the problems here - I don't get why he doesn't make changes.

Strange to have Brown making errors, one bad kick and not kicking when he should have done has given NZ the position for two of their tries. So many errors today.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:09 am

1-15 we're terrible Chris, just making errors in every department

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Post by prop_lyd Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:12 am

Just rest assured that your not wales at the moment! I'm dreading today!!
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:14 am

This is worse Prop, worst performance I've seen for a long time.

Great game for Fekitoa to start, he's ripping it up. Cruden and Smith have been outstanding

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:15 am

Dagg will struggle to get back in this side, Ben Smith is unreal

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:17 am

Hartley and Wood are doing a lot of work.

This is so poor, Burns showing his ap form in this one, Lancaster should bring on Cips and Burrell at half time - maybe should have after 20 mins. Though what difference that would make...

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Post by prop_lyd Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:18 am

Would you say New Zealand are just better today over England being awful? Only listening to it but it seems the all blacks have worked out England's attack and defense moves
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Post by prop_lyd Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:19 am

Would you say New Zealand are just better today over England being awful? Only listening to it but it seems the all blacks have worked out England's attack and defense moves
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:20 am

Sorry Chris but everybody is awful, pack is getting dismantled and backs are playing off awful ball. With that awful ball their doing absolutely nothing.

1-15 are terrible, nobody deserves anything else.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:21 am

Execution is terrible too Prop. NZ are on fire but we're helping them. Scrum and line out is terrible, we've got no platform.

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:24 am

Combination I think Prop - we've made a lot of silly errors and abs are just world class at taking their opportunities. Every time they have the ball they look like they can score, play the game so cleverly and have so many ways of getting over the gainline.

You just can't make these mistakes against the ABs

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:35 am

Needed that. Lovely offload by Launchbury.

Youngs isn't having a bad game either.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:37 am

Youngs started really well

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:40 am

Wood stripped in contact again!!!! Aghhhhh, pack is terrible again

Brilliant from Youngs

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:48 am

Hartley?!?! Omg

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:55 am

Trouble we are having in contact is that we aren't supporting enough at all - getting isolated each time. Same with the kick chases.

Strange performance from us.

NZ so cynical with their fouls, amazed they don't get yellow cards

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 9:57 am

Yarde is having a great 2nd half, such a threat. Much better 2nd half, Brookes made a big difference in the scrum

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Post by LukeLovesLuka Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:01 am

Criminal from Yarde not to send Burrell through

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:03 am

Yea he needs to realise support but is a real threat

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:06 am

Yarde makes a lot of wrong calls though - did well for his try but has butchered two chances for us by not passing and kick chase been bad. Doesn't play heads up rugby, but still a massive talent. Just needs to look up a bit more.

How they haven't been yellow carded is so annoying - have they had one all series?

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Post by LukeLovesLuka Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:07 am

Both Eastmond and Burrell have proved 36 is the best option we've got at 12

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:17 am

Midfield has been a major issue this tour. I really like Yarde, think he's a huge threat.

Brookes has been fantastic

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Post by dammit_chris Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:24 am

Lancaster does worry me a bit - not taking Eastmond off earlier to strengthen the defence, taking off youngs who was our best player today. Can see Lancaster looking at Brad Barritt again, just hope another 12 comes through by 2015!

Team just looked a bit jaded in that game, maybe the effects of the long season.

ABs are a class apart though. They make the right decisions nearly every time. Such a good team.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 10:31 am

1st half was just dreadful, pack got dismantled, backs struggled defensively, we were just on back foot all half.

Much better 2nd half, although execution was poor again. Only positives were Youngs and Brookes imo. Youngs showing why he was one of best scrum halfs in world a few years back, he was quality today.

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Post by Guest Sat 21 Jun 2014, 11:00 am

At half time as watching on delay. Been outgunned up front. Woodcock having a stormer.

Ashton and Yarde have missed tackles for fun.
We do defend narrow and this means wingers can't miss tackles. Yarde has issues as highlighted last week and Ashton defends like Ashton ie not very well.


Not helped by the midfield and as with any game if
You are getting cuffed up front it's hard work for the backs.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 11:03 am

Really hard viewing all game, gutted

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Post by Guest Sat 21 Jun 2014, 11:28 am

I know we are at the end of the season and player are tired etc but our defence is inexcusable. I am at 51 minutes in and Ashton has missed 5 tackles that I have noticed.

Tom wood who is usually superb has lost the ball in contact 4 times. Our basics are killing us

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 11:31 am

Ashton missed a few but it was largely due to the defensive line, Barnes said so himself.

He did miss a few he shouldn't have though, as did Yarde, Tuilagi, Eastmond, Burrell........you seeing the trend?

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 21 Jun 2014, 11:40 am

Cips looked solid when he came on and Brookes really tore up the scrum, trying to keep positive Sad

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Post by Guest Sat 21 Jun 2014, 11:47 am

Interestingly this tour has provided more questions than answers.

Before we went I think we all thought we knew our best team.


Now nobody knows.

The only backs guaranteed there places are brown and Tuilagi.


36 has shown he is not up to it and should not be in the squad any more. Eastmond had 1
Good match and 1 distinctly average. Burrell made no impression.
We have no idea who should be on the wings. Personally think Yarde is way out of his depth defensively but with work could potentially be wing long term but nobody has put there hands up in anyway.

Should have stuck with May who is much better defensively than yarde and Ashton although I am slightly biased due to his glos connection

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