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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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POS		Aviva Premiership	PLAYED	WON	DREW	LOST	P F	P A	P D	T F	T A	TBP	LBP	POINTS
1		Northampton Saints	2	2	0	0	64	46	18	8	4	2	0	10
2		Sale Sharks	2	2	0	0	59	50	9	7	4	1	0	9
3		Exeter Chiefs	2	2	0	0	51	48	3	5	4	0	0	8
4		Harlequins	2	1	1	0	56	50	6	6	5	0	0	6
5		Leicester Tigers	2	1	0	1	50	48	2	5	3	0	1	5
6		Bath Rugby	2	1	0	1	54	54	0	5	6	0	1	5
7		Newcastle Falcons	2	1	0	1	48	49	-1	5	3	0	1	5
8		London Wasps	2	1	0	1	50	54	-4	5	6	0	0	4
9		London Irish	2	0	1	1	51	53	-2	5	5	0	1	3
10		London Welsh	2	0	0	2	46	53	-7	4	6	0	2	2
11		Saracens	2	0	0	2	46	57	-11	4	6	0	2	2
12		Gloucester	2	0	0	2	48	61	-13	4	7	0	1	1

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.

dammit_chris wrote:Good comparison between ford (left column) and Cips in the telegraph today:

Try assists 2 - 0
Place kicks 7/7 - 4/4
Tackles 7/7 - 5/8
Metres 67 - 37
Def beaten 3 - 0

Hopefully ford has got rid of his kicking demons this year as fly half race for England shirt could get pretty close with Burns starting well at tigers, Cips and Ford.

dammit_chris wrote:Good comparison between ford (left column) and Cips in the telegraph today:

Try assists 2 - 0
Place kicks 7/7 - 4/4
Tackles 7/7 - 5/8
Metres 67 - 37
Def beaten 3 - 0

Hopefully ford has got rid of his kicking demons this year as fly half race for England shirt could get pretty close with Burns starting well at tigers, Cips and Ford.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Burns much better than Cips imo, not then a comparison

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Burns much better than Cips imo, not then a comparison

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Be interesting to see if Figallo can come back at any kind of level for Sarries, could be a decent signing.

Hasn't played for almost a year though so could be shot, such a hard position to stay at a certain level.

Fluxy wrote:I think the thing with that is, he probably is fit physically apart from his neck. I reckon he might be an accident waiting to happen unfortunately, but willing to be proven wrong there!

dammit_chris wrote:Agree with you Steve about Myler, been best no10 in the AP over last 12 months, just don't think he has the qualities to become a great no10 at the next level - has a great all round game but not one bit that you could say is world class.

Ford looked great against Sale at the weekend, not sure what you mean about him kicking the ball away Pooly, as Ford's the best tactical kicker in the AP and is a great part of his game. Only area for me is his goal kickng and that if that messes up his confidence goes.

Cipriani is better than Burns, or has been over last 12 months - think he's more intelligent, whilst Burns still looks for the miracle ball a bit too much in stupid areas of the pitch. Sure Cockerill will sort that out though, have to say Burns looked good playing alongside Youngs.

dammit_chris wrote:I'm not so sure about Ford having an issue with decision making Mat, think he's a very intelligent player and reads the game very well - he just seems to panic if he misses a few kicks and that impacts the rest of his game. Hopefully Bath can iron that out of him.

See that Pollard is back for SA, looks a real talent.

Would anyone select Watson on one of the wings for England?