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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 dammit_chris Sun 17 May 2015, 3:29 pm

Last few games I've seen with LCD and he looks a different player with his darts now and it hasn't stopped Tom Youngs being an international hooker, some of his throwing in for Tigers yesterday was hard to watch.

What ever happened with his brother? Seems to have gone completely off the radar.

Exeter do produce a lot of talented youngsters, Rob Baxter has done an incredible job really.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sun 17 May 2015, 3:53 pm

LCD struggles in the AP, Youngs is the best statistical thrower in the AP.

Youngs didn't miss a throw yesterday Chris, Tigers lineout was immaculate.

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Post by dammit_chris Sun 17 May 2015, 4:10 pm

Young missed quite a few when he went to the back, the commentators even commented on it. A lot of Tigers lineouts go for easy front ball so they can keep it in their forwards and not risk losing the ball - they don't generate much quick ball, but the way their backs have gone for large parts of the season hardly a surprising tactic.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sun 17 May 2015, 4:13 pm

I watched the game and can't recall Youngs missing a throw. Stats say they nailed all of them. Saints on the other hand were pretty awful.

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sun 17 May 2015, 4:16 pm

Youngs throwing was absolutely fine yesterday, as it has been most of the year, but if slagging him in a discussion about another player makes you feel better then feel free to not let the facts get in the way of your claims. Wink
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Post by dammit_chris Sun 17 May 2015, 4:22 pm

Yeah it is fine when he goes front or to the middle, but he missed when he went to the back.

Not slating him at all, if you read through the posts I've said in last few days that the way he is playing he is arguably England's no1 hooker, unless Hartley plays as well as he did against Sarries in the next two games.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sun 17 May 2015, 4:25 pm

Hartley has been in really poor form this season but he's pretty solid usually at level.

Youngs was spot on yesterday as he has been all season. I'm not his biggest fan but at a loss with your knocking of him Chris.

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Post by dammit_chris Sun 17 May 2015, 4:30 pm

Because I've said that his throwing to the tail of the lineout wasn't very good? He missed at least two with not straight throws and then Tigers stuck to front and middle ball and got all of them - but I think that also works for Tigers style of play as they don't do much with quick ball at lineouts.

i just don't think he's the best thrower if you want to get quick attacking ball from and I think it was Ben Kay in commentary who said the same yesterday. Just my opinion.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Sun 17 May 2015, 4:34 pm

That's fair enough, don't throw the teddy.

I can't recall him missing one and the stats said Tigers were 100% Whistle

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Post by Ozzy3213 Sun 17 May 2015, 4:40 pm

Anyone else predicting this week? Whistle
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Post by Steven_Sharks Sun 17 May 2015, 4:46 pm

Will be later

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Post by Fluxy Mon 18 May 2015, 11:50 am

Roberts officially a Quins player. Clever signing for them to be honest. They might need a new ten soon with Nev ageing!

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Mon 18 May 2015, 1:54 pm

Table up to date thumbsup

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Post by Fluxy Mon 18 May 2015, 1:55 pm

Now that is disappointing, onwards and upwards to next season!

I need to do some deals!

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Post by CJB Mon 18 May 2015, 1:59 pm

Finally made it into Europe!!

Well done everyone!

As always I'm up for deals.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Mon 18 May 2015, 2:04 pm

Unlucky Prop, hopefully Wuss/Bristol will make some big signings OK

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Post by Guest Mon 18 May 2015, 3:12 pm

Is Europe down to 7th place ?

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Mon 18 May 2015, 3:20 pm

I think it's the winner of the Challange Cup who plays off against someone:

Champions Cup play-offs:

Match 1: Aviva Premiership (seventh-ranked club or Challenge Cup winner from the Aviva Premiership if not already qualified) v PRO12 (highest-ranked club not already qualified)
Home advantage to be decided by toss of coin


Match 2: winner of Match 1 v Top 14 (seventh-ranked club)

Winner of Match 1 will have home advantage

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Mon 18 May 2015, 3:21 pm

So this year in real life, Gloucester will play Edinburgh again I think??

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Post by prop_lyd Mon 18 May 2015, 4:09 pm

Glos have got Connacht in the playoff. How does it work with me relegated now and the players wuss/bristol have?
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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Mon 18 May 2015, 4:22 pm

Relegation has really just been a rebranding the last few years Prop. You keep your squad but will play under the name of whoever comes up from the Championship

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Post by Fluxy Mon 18 May 2015, 4:32 pm

Hasn't the 'relegated' Club also got the choice of picking a squad from the promoted team and their current squad?

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Mon 18 May 2015, 4:34 pm

Is this Gloucesters first time in the Micky Mouse Cup? The board will not be happy with the direction you're taking the club Matt Wink

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Mon 18 May 2015, 4:35 pm

They have Fluxy as far as I can remember

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Post by Fluxy Mon 18 May 2015, 4:53 pm

Cool just thought it was a little more than rebranding!

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Mon 18 May 2015, 5:33 pm

Time for some deals I reckon

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Post by Steven_Sharks Mon 18 May 2015, 6:54 pm

Castro, Braid, Olding, Easter, Romans, Halai all available

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Post by Steven_Sharks Mon 18 May 2015, 7:04 pm

Romans = Tomane in this instance

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Post by Driver Mon 18 May 2015, 8:38 pm

For what it's worth my team of the season...

15.Haley 14.Sinoti 13.Joseph 12.Eastmond 11.Wyles 10.Ford 9.Simpson; 1.Mullen 2.George 3.Afoa 4.Hooper 5.Mumm 6.Itoje 7.Kvesic 8.Hughes.
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Post by Steven_Sharks Mon 18 May 2015, 8:41 pm

Haley and Itoje lucky for my money.

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Post by prop_lyd Mon 18 May 2015, 9:41 pm

I won't be doing any big deals till the promotion is decided so I know who I need to release /where to strengthen. Feel free to put in offers but a deal may not be sorted till next week Ok!
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Post by Ozzy3213 Mon 18 May 2015, 9:45 pm

Can't believe you took Irish down Prop.  Unforgivable! boxing
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Post by prop_lyd Mon 18 May 2015, 9:54 pm

Maybe you should have fielded a weakened side.....or maybe I should have bribed you!!
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Post by ChequeredJersey Tue 19 May 2015, 9:13 am

Very happy to stay up. Bad luck, prop
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Tue 19 May 2015, 3:08 pm

France WC training squad, Thomas & Lopez dropped:

Backs: Mathieu Bastareaud, Alexandre Dumoulin, Brice Dulin, Gael Fickou, Wesley Fofana, Sofiane Guitoune, Yoann Huget, Rory Kockott, Remi Lamerat, Frederic Michalak, Noa Nakaitaci, Morgan Parra, Scott Spedding, Remi Tales, Sebastien Tillous-Borde, Francois Trinh-Duc

Forwards: Uini Atonio, Eddy Ben Arous, Xavier Chiocci, Damien Chouly, Vincent Debaty, Thierry Dusautoir, Alexandre Flanquart, Loann Goujon, Guilhem Guirado, Benjamin Kayser, Bernard Le Roux, Yoann Maestri, Nicolas Mas, Yannick Nyanga, Pascal Pape, Louis Picamoles, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Rabah Slimani, Dimitri Szarzewski, Sebastien Vahaamahina

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Post by ChequeredJersey Tue 19 May 2015, 11:24 pm

Brown, Walker/Visser, Lowe, Roberts, Yarde, Evans, Care, Easter, Robshaw, Clifford, Matthews, Horwill, Collier/Jones, Ward, Marler

Not a bad side. Needs one more forward of real quality I reckon
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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 20 May 2015, 6:04 am

Looking good CJ, I like the Visser/Yarde/Brown back 3. Not sure how much Adam Jones will add as he looks shot, TH could be an issue still.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 20 May 2015, 6:26 am

Surely not???

http://m.foxsports.com.au/rugby/sir-clive-woodward-a-leading-candidate-to-be-named-next-france-national-rugby-team-coach/story-e6frf4pu-1227361457140

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Post by dammit_chris Wed 20 May 2015, 9:28 am

England World Cup training squad (probable):
Back three: M Brown, A Goode, J Nowell, A Watson, J May, M Yarde, C Ashton.
Centres: J Joseph, B Barritt, H Slade, L Burrell, B Twelvetrees, K Eastmond, S Burgess, E Daly.
Fly-halves: G Ford, O Farrell, D Cipriani, S Myler.
Scrum-halves: B Youngs, R Wigglesworth, D Care, L Dickson, J Simpson.
Props: A Corbisiero, J Marler, M Vunipola, D Wilson, D Cole, K Brookes, M Mullan. Hookers: D Hartley, T Youngs, R Webber, L Cowan-Dickie.
Locks: J Launchbury, C Lawes, G Parling, D Attwood, G Kruis, M Itoje, E Slater.
Back row: C Robshaw, B Vunipola, B Morgan, T Wood, J Haskell, N Easter, M Kvesic, C Clark.

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Post by dammit_chris Wed 20 May 2015, 9:30 am

That was from telegraph who don't really get much wrong on squad announcements

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Post by BamBam Wed 20 May 2015, 9:52 am

Back from my holiday, have I got into Europe?!

The Daily Mail seem to think Strettle will be in too for some strange reason

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Post by BamBam Wed 20 May 2015, 9:53 am

Oh wow just seen the Tuilagi news! That was a bit unexpected

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Post by dammit_chris Wed 20 May 2015, 10:42 am

It seems that the vast majority of players are there on form, delighted that Daly is in from a Wasps fan view.

Ewers got to consider himself unlucky as he's been very good this season, but other than that I don't think there are any other noticeable omissions?

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Wed 20 May 2015, 10:45 am

Armitage and Bendy Whistle

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 20 May 2015, 10:55 am

50 players in the initial training squad is so ott.

Players like Cowen Dickie, Itoje, Simpson have little to zero chance of making the final squad.

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Post by dammit_chris Wed 20 May 2015, 11:01 am

Third no9 spot is v up for grabs with how Care has been playing though, he should be nailed in but Quins haven't been themselves this season with a few exceptions. Think Simpson had the best chance but being injured for 6-8 weeks must have scuppered that.

Itoje is a serious bolter though, again after Lawes, Parling and if completely fit Launchbury no one has really cemented their spot there. I really like him, especially as gives another backrow option too.

One that is a bit odd is that more and more papers are saying Burgess has got a v good chance now of making the actual WC squad as Lancaster needs a centre who has the power to challenge the gainline in absence of Tuilagi. Don't get me wrong, he's done well at no6 (good shout Pooly btw) but would be a crazy decision to select him there.

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Post by Sgt_Pooly Wed 20 May 2015, 11:54 am

Simpson is rightly 5/6th choice, he's got an awful pass and just wouldn't work at Int level.

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Post by CJB Wed 20 May 2015, 12:43 pm

Lancaster is not a fan of Wade

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Post by SirJohnnyEnglish Wed 20 May 2015, 1:22 pm

Wade (and Ewels) to be involved against the Baa Baas from the report I read so maybe chance for him yet CJB

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