Foreign Transfer Bidding Page

First topic message reminder :

The foreign transfer draft is now complete.  Please now use this page to bid for players.  Bidding guidelines are as follows.

1. You will need to sell your club to the player you are bidding for.
2. If you want a world class player, it will cost you between £20-25 million, top international will cost £18-23 million.  Uncapped players will be judged upon their own merits.


Connacht - Fluxy:  Johnny Sexton
Newcastle Falcons - Driver:  Tom Wood
London Irish - Ozzy:  Bismarck du Plessis
Scarlets - CJB:  Eben Etzebeth
Exeter Chiefs - BamBam:  Kieran Read
Gloucester - ChequeredJersey:  Marcos Ayerza
Stade Francais - Freemo:  Owen Farrell
Montpellier - Bathite:  Brodie Retallick

Newcastle Falcons - Driver:  Cian Healy
London Irish - Ozzy:  Manu Tuilagi
Connacht - Fluxy:  Sam Whitelock
Scarlets - CJB:  Duane Vermeulen
Exeter Chiefs - BamBam:  Aaron Smith
Gloucester - ChequeredJersey:  Chris Robshaw
Stade Francais - Freemo:  Tom Youngs
Montpellier - Bathite:  Adrian Strauss

Montpellier - Bathite:  Wesley Fofana
Stade Francais - Freemo:  Yoann Huget
Gloucester - ChequeredJersey:  Matt Giteau
Exeter Chiefs - BamBam:  Aaron Cruden
Scarlets - CJB:  Jonathon Davies
Connacht - Fluxy:  George North
London Irish - Ozzy:  Beauden Barrett
Newcastle Falcons - Driver:  Julian Savea

Newcastle Falcons - Driver:  George Ford
London Irish - Ozzy:  Billy Vunipola
Connacht - Fluxy:  Owen Franks
Scarlets - CJB:  Willie le Roux
Exeter Chiefs - BamBam:  Joe Launchbury
Gloucester - ChequeredJersey:  Danny Care
Stade Francais - Freemo:  Maxime Mermoz
Montpellier - Bathite:  Ben Smith

If you take more than 24 hours from the person above you in the list selecting their player, then you forfeit your turn in the round and move to the end of that round of the draft.

Fluxmeister to go.

Surprised he hasn't gone yet

George North

Beauden Barrett

Julian Sevea and A fly half , not sure

George Ford

Billy Vunipola

Owen Franks

Willie Le Roux

Joe Launchbury

CJ is up

So hard...


Danny Care

If i get who i want in 2 guesses time I'm going to be delighted!

I'm 99.999999% sure you will lol

I'll be amazed

Freemo usually picks someone completely random!

50p on CF going for Weepu...

Ashton ..

Maxime Mermoz

I bet that isn't who Bathite was after though!

Bath's turn..

Never thought I would have the choice of either Ben Smith or Israel Folau. What do people reckon?

Can't go wrong with either, but I know who I'd take

I'd take Mike Brown

Ben smith please

is that the draft over?

Yep, now everyone needs to send Ozzy their rankings of squad strength so he can get budgets up tomorrow

£25m for Dylan Hartley

Newcastle Falcons would offer Dylan the chance to join England team mates , Kieron Brookes , Tom Wood and George Ford in a exciting new look side which is stooped in English rugby history. Hartley would be seen as first choice 2 but rested to allow him to be fresh for England duty.

£23 for Courtney Lawes.

Irish offer Courtney the chance to join England team mates Billy Vunipola and Manu Tuilagi, working at a brand new, world class training facility.  He will be given responsibility for making us the best lineout in the league in tandem with the worlds best hooker Bismarck du Plessis.

Scarlets will offer Saints £22m for Alex Corbisiero. Corbs has seen Mako and Marler pass him in the England squad. Northampton are fed up with his constant time on the sidelines and have Alex Waller anyway. Scarlets is offering a pressure free environment where he can try and get some good form back under a good medical staff and just enjoy his rugby. Young front row core that Alex can help bring along.

Connacht would like to offer SBW £23m for the opportunity to stake a claim for our open spot at 12. With Chiefs stocked at centre for next season, we at Connacht can offer a regular first team spot - with the chance to create a formidable midfield partnership with Johnny and also help our young starlet Henshaw flourish.

Exeter would like to bid £25m for Israel Folau. We have a slot open at full back for a world class operator to add to the formidable spine of our team. We offer Israel the chance to play off a world class half back partnership proven at Test level in Smith and Cruden, with future England stars in the back line to play alongside such as Slade and Nowell. Israel has a record of moving for new challenges (league, Aussie rules etc), and we think he would look forward to a new opportunity in the Euro League

Gloucester would like to offer 21m to Mike Brown alongside the opportunity to continue alongside his coach and mentor O'Shea, and friends and teammates Robshaw and Care, as well as tutoring an aspiring EQ FB and playing alongside a potential starting England back 3 with two attacking wingers. We are also a club full of England players like Quins and who play an attacking style that will bring the best out of Mike's game

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Driver wrote:£25m for Dylan Hartley

Newcastle Falcons would offer Dylan the chance to join England team mates , Kieron Brookes , Tom Wood and George Ford in a exciting new look side which is stooped in English rugby history. Hartley would be seen as first choice 2 but rested to allow him to be fresh for England duty.

Having spoken to former saints team mate Tom Wood, Dylan would love the opportunity to join Falcons and work with his England international colleagues.

ACCEPTED

CJB wrote:Scarlets will offer Saints £22m for Alex Corbisiero. Corbs has seen Mako and Marler pass him in the England squad. Northampton are fed up with his constant time on the sidelines and have Alex Waller anyway. Scarlets is offering a pressure free environment where he can try and get some good form back under a good medical staff and just enjoy his rugby. Young front row core that Alex can help bring along.

Alex is quite happy with the medical staff at Northampton Saints and has no feed back from them that they are fed up with him.  He also does not feel that Vunipola and Marler have passed him and considers that when fit he is first choice.  Whilst always willing to help others he does not want to be brought to a club where that is seen as a primary role for him, he would prefer to play somewhere alongside other world class front rowers.  he also feels that he owes Saints a return on their fairly recent investment on him.

REJECTED

On reflection, we offer Mike 23m and the above

Montpelier would like to offer Michael Hooper £25m for tje opportunity to play alongside former Australian and super rugby team mate Ben Mowen to form a formidable back row, under the leadership of Fulgence Ouedraogo.

We would welcome Michael into the senior leadership team and offer him the chance to develop his game by learning how to play in the famously physical French team style. We hope that we can utilise his ability to link forwards and backs by allowing him to make his trade mark runs off FTD, who likes to take the ball on physically.

We think Montpelier offer Michael a great chance to develop his game by learning the facets of Northern Hemisphere rugby ahead of the World Cup, which can only help his game and develop his leadership qualities.

Mamuka Gorgodze £22m
Mamuka would have wanted a greater role at Toulon and we feel we can promise him a good amount of regular minutes. We are forming one of the grittiest packs around with Vermuelen and Etzbeth already signed. Gorgodze fits right into that with his hugely physical style of play. Wales will give him a new place to play without hindering his chance in the National Side.

Ozzy3213 wrote:£23 for Courtney Lawes.

Irish offer Courtney the chance to join England team mates Billy Vunipola and Manu Tuilagi, working at a brand new, world class training facility.  He will be given responsibility for making us the best lineout in the league in tandem with the worlds best hooker Bismarck du Plessis.

Having been at Saints for a considerable time Courtney is ready for a new challenge and relishes the opportunity to join Irish and build a world class pack.

ACCEPTED

Fluxy wrote:Connacht would like to offer SBW £23m for the opportunity to stake a claim for our open spot at 12. With Chiefs stocked at centre for next season, we at Connacht can offer a regular first team spot - with the chance to create a formidable midfield partnership with Johnny and also help our young starlet Henshaw flourish.

Sonny Bill, having only just returned to union and signed with the Chiefs wants to honour that agreement and give them at least 1 season before moving on to a fresh challenge.

REJECTED

BamBam wrote:Exeter would like to bid £25m for Israel Folau. We have a slot open at full back for a world class operator to add to the formidable spine of our team. We offer Israel the chance to play off a world class half back partnership proven at Test level in Smith and Cruden, with future England stars in the back line to play alongside such as Slade and Nowell. Israel has a record of moving for new challenges (league, Aussie rules etc), and we think he would look forward to a new opportunity in the Euro League

Having won the Super Rugby title with the Waratahs, Israel is ready for a new challenge and would be happy to join a team looking to play some attacking rugby with young home grown players.

ACCEPTED

London Irish bid £19.5 million for the uncapped Anthony Watson.

We would like to offer Anthony the chance to rejoin the club where he learnt his trade, and where he can now fulfill his international ambitions which wasn't the case when he left.  He will be joining all balck Beauden Barrett and England team mate Manu Tuilagi in a back line who will be charged with playing attractive, effective, running rugby.  

*we will also have his younger brother who is in the academy in his ear bigging the club and new facilities up.

Ozzy3213 wrote:

Ozzy3213 wrote:£23 for Courtney Lawes.

Irish offer Courtney the chance to join England team mates Billy Vunipola and Manu Tuilagi, working at a brand new, world class training facility.  He will be given responsibility for making us the best lineout in the league in tandem with the worlds best hooker Bismarck du Plessis.

Having been at Saints for a considerable time Courtney is ready for a new challenge and relishes the opportunity to join Irish and build a world class pack.

ACCEPTED

Can't be accepting your own bids mate 

Why's that?  Always did on the other game with no issues.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Gloucester would like to offer 23m to Mike Brown alongside the opportunity to continue alongside his coach and mentor O'Shea, and friends and teammates Robshaw and Care, as well as tutoring an aspiring EQ FB and playing alongside a potential starting England back 3 with two attacking wingers. We are also a club full of England players like Quins and who play an attacking style that will bring the best out of Mike's game

Mike Brown is keen for a new challenge and values the familiarity of England and former Quins team mates.


ACCEPTED

Newcastle would like to offer £25m for Puma Juan Fernandez Lobbe.

Falcons would like to offer a luxery deal to a player in his Autumn years and see the presences of fellow Puma Gonzalo Tiesi a valuable addition, Lobbe would be played in his favoured role of 8.

Bathite wrote:Montpelier would like to offer Michael Hooper £25m for tje opportunity to play alongside former Australian and super rugby team mate Ben Mowen to form a formidable back row, under the leadership of Fulgence Ouedraogo.

We would welcome Michael into the senior leadership team and offer him the chance to develop his game by learning how to play in the famously physical French team style. We hope that we can utilise his ability to link forwards and backs by allowing him to make his trade mark runs off FTD, who likes to take the ball on physically.

We think Montpelier offer Michael a great chance to develop his game by learning the facets of Northern Hemisphere rugby ahead of the World Cup, which can only help his game and develop his leadership qualities.

Michael would love to head north and play in a side containing such quality and in such a great city as Montpellier.

ACCEPTED

CJB wrote:Mamuka Gorgodze £22m
Mamuka would have wanted a greater role at Toulon and we feel we can promise him a good amount of regular minutes. We are forming one of the grittiest packs around with Vermuelen and Etzbeth already signed. Gorgodze fits right into that with his hugely physical style of play. Wales will give him a new place to play without hindering his chance in the National Side.

Mamuka is unhappy with how things have gone for him at Toulon and would relish a new challenge with the Scarlets.

ACCEPTED

Ozzy3213 wrote:London Irish bid £19.5 million for the uncapped Anthony Watson.

We would like to offer Anthony the chance to rejoin the club where he learnt his trade, and where he can now fulfill his international ambitions which wasn't the case when he left.  He will be joining all balck Beauden Barrett and England team mate Manu Tuilagi in a back line who will be charged with playing attractive, effective, running rugby.  

*we will also have his younger brother who is in the academy in his ear bigging the club and new facilities up.

Anthony would love to return to London Irish as they are now in the top tier of European competition and he can fulfill his international ambitions at the club.

ACCEPTED

Driver wrote:Newcastle would like to offer £25m for Puma Juan Fernandez Lobbe.

Falcons would like to offer a luxery deal to a player in his Autumn years and see the presences of fellow Puma Gonzalo Tiesi a valuable addition, Lobbe would be played in his favoured role of 8.

JMFL is happy to accept a final challenge in his career and sees helping Newcastle to be a better team as the sort of challenge that he would like.

ACCEPTED