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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Sat 11 Apr 2015, 12:14 pm

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Breaking News: London Wasps regain their crown following playoff final victory. 
 


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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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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 Sat 02 May 2015, 8:49 am

Canes v Crusaders has started well, Crusaders defence has been very suspect.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 9:08 am

Slade has been fantastic, playing himself into the AB 10 jersey if he carries on like this.

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sat 02 May 2015, 9:35 am

Am at work so not watching it. How's Ben Franks playing?
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 9:41 am

Not so well, he's been pinged a few times at the scrum. He's playing TH though, Crockett certainly on top.

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sat 02 May 2015, 9:44 am

He's definitely a better loosehead, which is where I suspect we'll be looking to play him next season.
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 9:46 am

Yea he's a better LH. Canes just went in front 24-20, they've been living off scraps but just starting to get on top

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sat 02 May 2015, 9:47 am

Am up for som eend of season deals. These are guys who I am actively looking to move on, other players can leave but obviously top quality will require the same in return.

Deon Fourie
Ollie Adams (Academy)
Paul James
Euan Murray
Paul Willemse
Rynhardt Elstadt
Shane Geraghty
Berrick Barnes
JJ Engelbrecht
Robbie Freuan
Bryan Habana
Tom Collins (Academy)
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Post by Ozzy3213 Sat 02 May 2015, 9:49 am

Canes backline is ridiculously dangerous, much like all of the New Zealand franchises to be honest. The Highlanders back three have been unbelievable this year and the Chiefs backs are sensational ball in hand.
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 9:54 am

Unreal counter attacking from the Hurricanes, backline like you said has been superb.

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Sat 02 May 2015, 9:54 am

Cracking try for Canes. Some lovely running rugby from them in this one. Support play is top class always an option off the line break

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 10:00 am

There's always somebody on the shoulder. For everything Ardie Savea lacks at the breakdown he makes up for in the loose, the boy is quick!

Broadhurst has had a stormer with ball in hand.

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Post by BamBam Sat 02 May 2015, 10:18 am

Savea played well, good support running and a good turnover about 15 mins before the end when Crusaders were moving into Canes 22

Read looked to be carrying better than he has been the last few weeks too

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 10:23 am

Savea certainly offers great support, love to see him against Hooper. Just doesn't look like an All Black in the making, he's so small.

Read looked ok, made less mistakes than last week.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 12:06 pm

Chiefs look like they might lose this one, 16-10 with 20mins left.

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Post by LukeLovesLuka Sat 02 May 2015, 2:38 pm

Your boys going down driver?

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 5:03 pm

C'mon Clermont! Great start from Bendy, he's in some form.

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Post by Driver Sat 02 May 2015, 6:44 pm

LukeLovesLuka wrote:Your boys going down driver?

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 6:45 pm

What a try from Mitchell, beat about 6 players!

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sat 02 May 2015, 7:21 pm

What a good final, wasn't expecting that. Toulon's defence was superb

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Post by Guest Sat 02 May 2015, 10:25 pm

Great final.
Bendy showed why he could be in engkand mix but then showed why he should not by missing so
Many tackles. Still prefer him
To Goode/

Clermont so much better when parra went off. He kills an open game.

Juan smith was superb as were Williams and Armitage up front. Clermont should give fofana more ball he is incredible

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sun 03 May 2015, 4:01 am

I thought you'd slip one of your players in there Wink

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sun 03 May 2015, 9:28 am

Had really hoped that Clermont would win that one yesterday.
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sun 03 May 2015, 9:53 am

Me too, it's a real shame. They just really struggled to break them down, almost seemed intimidated. I was surprised the Clermont set piece struggled, didn't think Toulon would get on top of the scrum & lineout.

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sun 03 May 2015, 10:12 am

I only caught bits and pieces as I had it on but was doing other stuff. Looked as if Toulon had more success carrying the ball. Every time I glanced at it they seemed to be getting a ball carrier across the gain line.
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Post by Driver Sun 03 May 2015, 1:02 pm

Shown the diffrence between the two sides yesterday, Quality in the kill zone. Mitchell's try was incredible. 

Didn't relise Flip Van Der Merwe had joined Clermount for next season.
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Post by dammit_chris Mon 04 May 2015, 4:24 pm

Anyone else think that something needs to be done to stop guys like CJ Stander going to play for a country that they have no connection with?

The head of World Rugby (or whatever the organisation is) said he wanted to make it harder to switch nations, just not a big fan of the way that Ireland seem to be going after players with the view of playing them for 3 years with the view to get them playing for the national team.

http://www.planetrugby.co.uk/story/0,25883,3551_47000,00.html

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Mon 04 May 2015, 5:28 pm

No real difference to what Scotland, Wales, France and even us to a certain extent are doing.

I don't agree with it but if it's within the rules I can't see the problem. Hape and Flutey are recent examples with Tuilagi and the Vuinipolas less obvious but still foreign players.

I'd like to see residency bumped up to 5 years and possibly only parentage being a back door in.

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Tue 05 May 2015, 1:47 pm

Champions Cup has gone to extra time. Can you get your predictions in please lads.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Tue 05 May 2015, 2:39 pm

Hughes has turned down Fiji, looks like England it is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-3067847/Fiji-coach-John-McKee-hits-Nathan-Hughes-turning-country.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Tue 05 May 2015, 3:13 pm

Bendy wins Euro player of the year.

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Post by prop_lyd Tue 05 May 2015, 4:08 pm

Struggling for time at the moment so my team will be the same as the last match, should be able to edit tactics thursday
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Tue 05 May 2015, 7:39 pm

Launchbury is back Chris, good news for England

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Post by BamBam Wed 06 May 2015, 9:58 am

Excellent, apparently Slater is too

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Post by Fluxy Wed 06 May 2015, 10:23 am

Sorry guys I have had a mega busy weekend, topped off with being elected 1st team captain for 2015-2016 season at last nights AGM, for my home Club!

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Post by Ozzy3213 Wed 06 May 2015, 10:29 am

Good work Fluxy. Still time to predo buddy, we're into extra time.
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Post by dammit_chris Wed 06 May 2015, 11:45 am

What position do you play Fluxy? And congrats!

If you guys were picking the England WC squad would you include any of the French based players? Media seem to be on a bit of a bandwagon with it at the moment for Armitage and Bendy.

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Post by Ozzy3213 Wed 06 May 2015, 11:56 am

Armitage yes, Abendanon probably not.

Armitga ebrings something different to our other back row forwards, Abendanon on the other hand, whilst a great attacker ball in hand doesn't offer anything differnt to what players like Brown, Watson, May, Foden etc can offer.
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Post by BamBam Wed 06 May 2015, 12:12 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/11585016/Manu-Tuilagi-injury-setback-leaves-England-sweating.html

Not great injury news

I would take both Armitage and Bendy, Foden is injured and I don't fully trust Watson etc to play FB at international level just yet, and I'd rather stick myself at FB (i'm a rubbish flanker) than see Goode there

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Post by Ozzy3213 Wed 06 May 2015, 12:32 pm

I can't even remember the last time Manu played. Not great preparation for England to be honest.
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 06 May 2015, 12:44 pm

Tuilagi has serious issues, we need to forget about him for the WC I reckon.

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Post by Ozzy3213 Wed 06 May 2015, 12:54 pm

For all his attributes, JJ may well be a better fit at 13 for England anyway.
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Post by dammit_chris Wed 06 May 2015, 12:55 pm

Lazy journalism piece there on Tuilagi as they were only looking to get him ready for WC. Thing with him is that his style is so abrasive that you can throw him in and he'd be fine as he just runs straight and hard. We need him fit for WC though, would love to see him and JJ play together.

Personally wouldn't take any overseas players, a number of players have already come out saying it would be bad for the squad and that's from guys who aren't being challenged position wise by them.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 06 May 2015, 12:56 pm

Yea possibly, the wingers actually get to see the ball now. Manu is a freak of nature though.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 06 May 2015, 1:01 pm

I'm disappointed that players have come out with that attitude tbh. You should be wanting any player who improves the team and it shouldn't matter where he's playing his rugby, it's nothing to do with a player.

Disagree you can throw Manu straight back in. He was poor for 4/5 games last time he was out for a while and took a while to sort himself out. Just as he did he got injured again!

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Post by Fluxy Wed 06 May 2015, 1:03 pm

I usually play second row, but looking to get fit over the off season and play more back row where I love playing. I have unfortunately had to cover the front row in the past season in games, and I never wish to do that again! Although the dream is to play ten, ended up top points scorer this I believe, because I also kick at goal!  Whistle

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Post by Ozzy3213 Wed 06 May 2015, 1:30 pm

I'm not sure what those players are basing it being bad for the squad on though.

It's simple for me, you pick your best players. Whether they play here or elsewhere is irrelevant. I don't buy into the fact that we'd lose everyone to France, and the bottom line is, that if a few top players wwent to France, it would accelerate the process of other English youngsters coming through the academies.
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Post by dammit_chris Wed 06 May 2015, 2:47 pm

That's the trouble though Pete, I don't think it does accelerate youngsters coming through the academies in the way it should do. If you look at a lot of recruitment in the AP for next season there are a lot of non-EQ players coming in.

The issue for the players over here is that they would all have been likely offered the opportunity to play in France - take Hartley as an example, who had deals lined up with quite a few clubs over there for a lot more money than Saints offered, but he choose to stay at Saints because he wanted to play for England.

Other argument is that as they knew the rules about non-selection for England if they played abroad why haven't they come back to play, they can't want it as much as the guys who stay.

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Post by dammit_chris Wed 06 May 2015, 2:48 pm

Oh dear Fluxy, you are one of those forwards who think they can kick...

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Post by Driver Wed 06 May 2015, 4:41 pm

Fluxy wrote:I usually play second row, but looking to get fit over the off season and play more back row where I love playing. I have unfortunately had to cover the front row in the past season in games, and I never wish to do that again! Although the dream is to play ten, ended up top points scorer this I believe, because I also kick at goal!  Whistle

I used to kick when i played back row.
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