Fantasy Aviva Premiership season 4

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Bath RFC	InTheFastLane
Exeter Chiefs	Driver - RIP 606
Gloucester	Anonmattyt
Harlequins	Steven_Sharks
Leicester Tigers	LukeLovesLuka
London Irish	stnick88
London Wasps	Arry
Newcastle Falcons	Sgt_Pooly
Northampton Saints	Dammit_Chris
Sale Sharks	SirJohnnyEnglish
Saracens	LDCPete
Worcester Warriors	prop_lyd

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1. Sam
2. pullthestrings
3. Bathite

Quade Cooper watching this? http://yfrog.com/ngeuoz

Guys,

Im starting a new job Monday week with an accounting practise. Should be able to do match threads, budgets etc but expect a drop off in activity on here during the day time

I see that Danaher is fit for selection this week stnick, that's a big boost for us. One of the most underated players in the Premiership.

Like to see him at openside as we have a load of blindsides now.
Wouldn't mind seeing Evans start at lock and Garvey at 6, would bulk up our pack a bit and Garveys workrate is higher than most blindsides anyway, his tackle stats are outstanding.

I hear Gibson might be back this week as well.

From 4-8 where pretty ok now when everyone is fit, it's just the front row where we are a little bit thin on quality if we lose a couple.

I'll find out team news tomorrow and see if either are starting/benched

Spratt supposed to be back next week but I know nothing about him tbh.

Strong running centre, good defender. Could be a decent option at 12. Has lots of potential but had a real bad run with injuries so not played much over the past 18-24 months.

You never know, he could be one of those inspired signings who comes in, stays fit and just clicks and is superb for us, or could be continually injured and released when his contract is up having barely played.

I've heard a few murmurs of it being the latter!

Seen a few clips of him on youtube and he looks like a strong runner, but that was probably a while ago.

Nick let's see how Bowden does when it rains. Then I will be convinced. To be fair Payne should look good at the moment along with any other decent player. With all the best players at the world cup the rabo has some dire and very young players in it. Same as the AP. Some of the players playing will see little game time post wc so everything needs to be judges with a pinch of salt.

Parisse has been a monster in many games at top level and for me is up there with the group pooly named.

Read has been sensational the last year and so on form is worlds best current 8.

Why has pete changed his name

completely agree pooly the rain will test bowden as a 10, but in the dry this season he has been quality.

was thinking the same thing matt, care to share pete?

I haven't mentioned Bowden mate

Most people change their names for a dodgy reason, Pete strikes me as the sort of person who would do it for a really dodgy reason after getting himself into all sorts of trouble...

Bowden's impressed me this season so far, hope he doesnt go down the England route though, that'd be so frustrating, but wouldnt surprise me in the slightest under Johnson!

It's the who Age thing

Ozzy sounds closer to 20 than LDCPete which sounds closer to the big 40

i meant matt pooly

Mid life crisis

He'll have a sports car before long lol

And a pony tail

He already has the pony tail

Change of subject completely - but does anyone own a MAC? And if so how easy to use are they? I've got to get one for some editing of film documents and have never used them before.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

We use them at College and there pretty Shiote

Bit different from PC but very easy to use. Editting software is quality from what I can remember

anonmattyt wrote:He already has the pony tail

And a handlebar tache

Probs beat Pooly's 90s porno tash!

Can't grow much of a tach, came bottom in tach growing contest in Afghan. To make things worse it was a two week competition and the lad who came 2nd bottom forgot and shaved his off after a week

Pooly a bum fluff man? I shave the cat just to fit in!

1. Tony Woodcock (78)
2. Keven Mealamu (87)
3. Owen Franks (26)
4. Brad Thorn (54)
5. Sam Whitelock (20)
6. Jerome Kaino (43)
7. Richie McCaw – captain (99)
8. Adam Thomson (23)
9. Piri Weepu (51)
10. Daniel Carter (84)
11. Richard Kahui (14)
12. Ma’a Nonu (62)
13. Conrad Smith (50)
14. Cory Jane (28)
15. Israel Dagg (8)

Reserves:

16. Andrew Hore (57)
17. Ben Franks (12)
18. Ali Williams (68)
19. Anthony Boric (22)
20. Andy Ellis (22)
21. Colin Slade (7)
22. Sonny Bill Williams (9)

Anybody see the reason why Guildford hasn't played...,,a drink problem?!?!

He's in the same boat as Cowen was a few years back - Henry told him cut it out or lose your All Blacks spot

Best side without Read for me.

Romania: 15 Florin Adrian Vlaicu, 14 Stefan Eugen Ciuntu, 13 Ionel Cazan, 12 Iulian Dumitras, 11 Adrian Marian Apostol, 10 Marin Danut Dumbrava, 9 Lucian Mihai Sirbu, 8 Ovidiu Tonita, 7 Cosmin Aurel Ratiu, 6 Sandu Stelian Burcea, 5 Cristian Constantin Petre (capt), 4 Valentin Poparlan, 3 Silviu Florea, 2 Bogdan Zebega Suman, 1 Nicolae Nere.
Replacements: 16 Marius Tincu, 17 Paulica Ion, 18 Mihai Macovei, 19 Daniel Gabriel Ianus, 20 Valentin Nicolae Calafeteanu, 21 Csaba Minya Gal, 22 Catalin Marius Nicolae.

England: Ben Foden (Northampton Saints); Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints), Manu Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers), Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby), Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks); Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers); Alex Corbisiero (London Irish), Steve Thompson (London Wasps), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Louis Deacon (Leicester Tigers), Tom Palmer (Stade Francais), Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers), Lewis Moody (Bath Rugby, capt), James Haskell (Ricoh Black Rams).

Replacements: Lee Mears (Bath Rugby), David Wilson (Bath Rugby), Simon Shaw (Unattached), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens), Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers), Delon Armitage (London Irish).

For pooly:

Pooly

Cheers lol

Anybody else hoping NZ get stuffed this week. Would put them in our draw but the amount of complaining about France lineup is shocking.

Nope, I am hoping for NZ to smash the French and make sure that all southern hem teams are in one side of the draw and all northern hem teams are in the second side .

Is it a Romanian 'b' team they've put out from the looks of it - we have to win by 50+ in this one, otherwise we are in serious trouble.

I see your point but the NZ arrogance drives me mad!!!

I think NZ will win it regardless, only way they wont is if Carter of McCaw get injured - they've got far too many strike runners in their backline and Carter just gives them a perfect platform.

Not the biggest fan of their front five, and think Weepu is the ebst of a bad bunch for NZ at no9 (Kelleher still best NZ scrummie?) - but their strike runners are the difference between them and most other teams.

They're only as arrogant as the English are about football during the world cups, at least they can back it up - still amazed England climbed to 4th in the world rankings a few months ago! That's like saying Scotland are 2nd best in rugby!

Looks like Lawson has won the race to be Scotland 9

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/15010263.stm

I think the England game would be a better indication Matt, Blair and Cusiter have looked tasty

Argentina is a tough game for them. good they dropped kellock. big jim is in great form

Jocks have rotated well, all 3 scummies have played well. Thought Cusiter was outstanding when he came on last week. I think there's a few that wouldn't be in Scotlands strongest team if picked today.

Morrison and De Luca is such a poor midfield.
At least Ansbro gave them a bit of spark.
Not a fan of Jackson at 10 either.

With the big scottish pack they should play parks and abandon any hope of scoring tries. If it rains the jocks can cause problems

was just going to say exactly that Mat, the only way that Scotland will beat us is if the heavens open, their backrow and pack is going to be a test for us when the rain comes. I'm not sure that England play to their strengths and have enough intelligence to change a game when plan a is going to pot.

Imagine if we give Parks 10 penalties in a half - they'll be out of reach!

Gonna need a new homepage pretty soon driver mate

Matt: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15021902.stm Hazell out for 6 weeks.

He is loaned out from me currently but a big loss for Gloucester he has started season where he left off. One of the best out and out 7s in the league

Hey Matt,

Since you are on... What did you make of JTH's form over the last 2/3 months of the season last year and the Amlin run in? Has it continued through the start of the seaon?

If I remember rightly you were quite impressed even though JTH isnt particularly a favourite player of yours...

For Chris's benefit of course...

Johnny to be honest with you he has been sensational and has worked on his faults. He is never going to be a distributor and has a poor pass but he offloads well and runs great lines and tackles well. Most improved player in the prem last year. Was fantastic in Europe and must be near England sqiad