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Season 8 Homepage III
First topic message reminder :
2014/2015 – London Wasps
Welcome to Season 8 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.
2014/2015 – London Wasps
2013/2014 – London Wasps
2012/2013 – Leicester Tigers
2011/2012 – Newcastle Falcons
2010/2011 - Newcastle Falcons
2009/2010 – Saracens
2008/2009 - London Irish
2012/2013 – Leicester Tigers
2011/2012 – Newcastle Falcons
2010/2011 - Newcastle Falcons
2009/2010 – Saracens
2008/2009 - London Irish
POS | Aviva Premiership | PLAYED | WON | DREW | LOST | P F | P A | P D | T F | T A | TBP | LBP | POINTS | |
1 | Sale Sharks | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 192 | 171 | 21 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 27 | |
2 | Harlequins | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 189 | 169 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
3 | London Irish | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 190 | 175 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 24 | |
4 | Northampton Saints | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 186 | 175 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 22 | |
5 | Newcastle Falcons | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 177 | 177 | 0 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 18 | |
6 | Leicester Tigers | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 174 | 179 | -5 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 16 | |
7 | Worcester Warriors | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 174 | 185 | -11 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 16 | |
8 | Saracens | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 177 | 174 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 15 | |
9 | Exeter Chiefs * | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 177 | 176 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 14 | |
10 | Gloucester * | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 167 | 189 | -22 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 11 | |
11 | Bath Rugby | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 176 | 183 | -7 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 11 | |
12 | London Wasps | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 156 | 182 | -26 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
Links
Fixture List
Released/Championship/National League/Academy Bidding
Foreign Transfers
Budgets
European Homepage
Anglo Welsh Homepage
Fixture List
Released/Championship/National League/Academy Bidding
Foreign Transfers
Budgets
European Homepage
Anglo Welsh Homepage
Welcome to Season 8 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 23 players. Players who are in the academy must be born on or after 1st September 1993.
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. Worcester Warriors & London Wasps will receive two additional bids to be used exclusively on academy age players. These players must be bid for on the National League Bidding page, and each bid will be considered by the RFU 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 the RFU 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.
Player Draft
Worcester Warriors & London Wasps will participate in a player draft beginning the week of June 22nd. Both sides will be allowed to draft two players each. The draft picks will go as follows; 1. Worcester 2. Wasps 3. Wasps 4. Worcester.
Round Bidding
There will be two rounds of bidding. The first window will run the week starting June 29th and the second the week starting July 3rd. All sides will be allowed to sign one player each during the window. These bids are not protected if you do not have the funds in place to bid during the window you will lose the bid.
Open Bidding
From July 13th the foreign market will be open to all bids similar to previous seasons. Due to the world cup the window will remain open till the end of September.
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 20:00 hours on Sunday. Managers will pm 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
Bonuses will be awarded on a scaled basis i.e. 2m for 5 games, 1.6m for 4 games and so on
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.
Last edited by SirJohnnyEnglish on Wed Dec 30, 2015 7:28 pm; edited 9 times in total
SirJohnnyEnglish- Posts : 8536
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I think Ireland play boring rugby because it suits them down too a tee.
Leinster and Clermount weren't exactly boring under him.
Leinster and Clermount weren't exactly boring under him.
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I'm just not convinced with him at Int level, who's to say he wouldn't bring that style to us?
We'd be screwed without the Sexton wrap around too.....
We'd be screwed without the Sexton wrap around too.....
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Ford would be great at it !
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BamBam wrote:Ford would be great at it !
Who's he going to do it with though?? Lol
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I'd say Henry Slade if anyone.
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Slade, Daly, Care loop, I'm sure he can practice with JJ at Bath too...
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Daft article on Lions team on WC form, had to try.
1. Dickinson (can't believe I put that)
2. Best
3. Nel
4. AWJ
5. J Gray
6. Warburton
7. Hardie
8. Denton
9. Davies
10. Bigger
11. Seymour
12. Roberts
13. JJ
14. Watson
15. Brown
So many Scottish!
1. Dickinson (can't believe I put that)
2. Best
3. Nel
4. AWJ
5. J Gray
6. Warburton
7. Hardie
8. Denton
9. Davies
10. Bigger
11. Seymour
12. Roberts
13. JJ
14. Watson
15. Brown
So many Scottish!
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Living off one good game
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More than what we had!
I think they looked good throughout tbh, Cotter has done a good job.
I think they looked good throughout tbh, Cotter has done a good job.
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I thought they where poor against South Africa , never looked in it.
Scorred 3 scrappy trys in the big games , two intercepts and one charge down
Scorred 3 scrappy trys in the big games , two intercepts and one charge down
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They done ok against SA but rested many players. Thought they really improved this WC
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Sgt_Pooly wrote:Daft article on Lions team on WC form, had to try.
1. Dickinson (can't believe I put that)
2. Best
3. Nel
4. AWJ
5. J Gray
6. Warburton
7. Hardie
8. Denton
9. Davies
10. Bigger
11. Seymour
12. Roberts
13. JJ
14. Watson
15. Brown
So many Scottish!
Could argue a whole Scottish front 5 both ford and Richie grey had storming world cups.
Roberts had a an average World Cup at 12 but probably sneaks it.
Surprised by how poor a World Cup north had. Gareth Davies and Hardie were a revelation.
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Yea North was very quiet, I think he needs to adjust his game a bit.
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Gareth Davies has been the best 9 at the world cup bar Aaron Smith.
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Driver wrote:Gareth Davies has been the best 9 at the world cup bar Aaron Smith.
Always tipped for great things. Certain players have that rep. Pollard, tj, smith, Savea, joc, ioane,Carter, wilkinson etc were all Certs to make it like him. Ioane the blues backrow and perenara who are in the list above all come with similar wraps and destined to make it
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Rumours bowe will never play again after injury and Pom out 6-9 months
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ITM Cup final looks a good game. Excited to see Ioane and Karpik in super rugby.
Steven_Sharks- Posts : 7528
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Here we go........
NZ by 20 if they play like they did last week.
NZ by 20 if they play like they did last week.
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Louw keeps this up boks could win this.
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Abs looking short of ideas
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Still early. SA defence staying strong but won't last
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BdP throwing???
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They need to get pollard off.
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He's not playing well.
Boks kicking from hand has been awful
Boks kicking from hand has been awful
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Love the Carter/Barrett axis. They seem to take half of the pitch each for playmaking, so hard to stop.
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Score flattered SA a bit, they never looked like getting a try
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Table up to date and next weeks match thread is up. Conditions will be up some stage tomorrow
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Did anyone see this?
http://www.punditarena.com/rugby/adrumm/saracens-could-face-investigation-after-george-kruis-was-spotted-wearing-an-ear-piece/
http://www.punditarena.com/rugby/adrumm/saracens-could-face-investigation-after-george-kruis-was-spotted-wearing-an-ear-piece/
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Nothing new for me then....
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Prop with the quality coming back into your side you won't be there for long
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Here's hoping! Was going to give the welsh contingent a week off but think they'll be back in next week!
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Off to the lake district this weekend so unlikey i'll be around to predict, sorry.
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Saints team will be up later on today
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I was thinking the same! Driver put up a press release then didn't tell us any more, all makes sense now
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I'm covering Chris while work is busy
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BamBam wrote:JDV joining Leicester
Heard that was him or SBW, good capture as they're desperate.
Albacete for Launchbury Driver?
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I did say he was in discussions, Burgess on brink of return to RL:
http://m.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/34662659
http://m.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/34662659
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Sgt_Pooly wrote:Tommy Bowe out for the season.
About a week ago I posted that there were rumours that Bowe would never play again. Apparently the rehab and everything may well prove too much.
Been a great player one year and then troughs the next but when he is good he is very very good
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IRB World Player of the Year shortlist
Dan Carter
David Pocock
Michael Hooper
Julian Savea
Alun Wyn Jones
andd ...
Greig Laidlaw
Dan Carter
David Pocock
Michael Hooper
Julian Savea
Alun Wyn Jones
andd ...
Greig Laidlaw
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Pocock a clear winner. Hooper/Savea been good through out the year. Carter been great the world cup but outside of that struggled similar to Laidlaw. Been a few locks more impressive then AWJ at the world cup and through out the year never mind other positions!
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Yeah I'd go Pocock too. Just been reading their reasoning, they've weighted it quite heavily to the RWC understandably.
I must admit I've never seen it with AWJ, always thought there were far better locks around
I must admit I've never seen it with AWJ, always thought there were far better locks around
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I don't get the AWJ thing either. He's good but many better than him this year/most years.
I'd give it to Savea myself.
I'd give it to Savea myself.
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Schalk Brits is on the Sarries bench this weekend. Would I have been able to play him despite him being in the RWC squad for SA?
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Similar with AWJ, good player but not top draw. Probably Pocock from that list tbh
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Technically South Africa didn't have to release him. I would have counted him as unavailable Steve as none of us have been able to use players while at the World Cup even if not in match day squads.
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BamBam wrote:IRB World Player of the Year shortlist
Dan Carter
David Pocock
Michael Hooper
Julian Savea
Alun Wyn Jones
andd ...
Greig Laidlaw
Pocock at a stroll:
Carter been superb at wc but not rest of year. As I said before AB's managed him
Laidlaw been excellent but not better than FDP.
Petti, lavinini, whitelock, both gray brothers, de jäger, Douglas, Simmons all been equal or better than AWJ. Argentina pair lavinini and Petti, gray brothers and etzbeth and de jäger been superb.
Sam whitelock best second row in world for me. So underrated.
Favourite to watch is etzbeth as he is a force of
Nature but whitelock always over looked. Him and read took four of SA last week
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