Saracens

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Aviva Premiership Round 20 - Robbie Freuan
European Semi Final - Morgan Parra
Aviva Premiership Round 21  - Alex Waller
Aviva Premiership Round 22 - Ed Slater

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Squad size - 40
 
HK Guilhem Guirado (France)
HK Richard Hibbard (Wales)
HK Scott Spurling (England)
 
PR Alex Waller (England)
PR Mohamed Boughanmi (France)
PR Dylan Smith (South Africa)
PR Ben Franks (New Zealand)

PR Dan Cole (England)
PR Paul Hill (England)
PR Tomas Francis (England)
 
LK Sam Whitelock (New Zealand)
LK Ed Slater (England)
LK Geoff Parling (England)
LK Bradley Davies (Wales)
LK Patrick Tuipultou (New Zealand)
LK Marcos Kremer (Argentina) - 30/7/97

FL Akira Ioane (New Zealand)
FL James Haskell (England)
FL Guy Thompson (England)
FL Sam Underhill - 22/07/1996
FL John Hardie (Scotland)
FL Hamish Watson (Scotland)
 
N8 Dave Denton (Scotland)
N8 Nathan Hughes (England)
 
Current - 19
 
SH Baptiste Serin (France)
SH Morgan Parra (France)
SH Henry Taylor (England)
 
FH Nicolas Sanchez (Argentina)
FH Pat Lambie (South Africa)
FH Tom Taylor (New Zealand)

CE Sonny Bill Williams (New Zealand)
CE Francis Saili (New Zealand)
CE Ollie Devoto (England)
CE Rohan Janse van Rensburg (South Africa)
CE Lionel Mapoe (South Africa)
 
WG George North (Wales)
WG Nathan Earle (England)
WG Teddy Thomas (France)
WG Telusa Veainu (Tonga)
 
FB Stuart Hogg (Scotland)
FB Delon Armitage (England)
FB Aaron Morris (England)

Academy - 16
 
HK - James Fish - 15/07/96
LK - Nick Isiekwe - Saracens U18
LK - Jack Nay - 29/7/97
BS - Joe Batley - 27/06/96
BS - James Thacker - Saracens U18
OS - Ethan Waddleton - Saracens U18

SH/WG - Thomas Chapman - Can't locate but Saracens U20
SH Max Green - 13/06/96
FH Damian Willemse - 7/5/98
WG George Perkins - England U20
WG - Charlie Kingsman (Unknown. Sat his A Levels this year)
FH - Josh Sharp U18s
CE - Tyrese Johnson Fisher - 15yo
FB - Gervais Codin - 18yo
 
Saracens
Manager – Pooly
 

01. Alex Waller	09. Morgan Parra
02. Keven Mealamu	10. Morne Steyn
03. Jannie du Plessis
04. Patricio Albacete	11. Juan Imhoff
05. Victor Matfield	12. Jonathan Davies
06. Thierry Dusatoir	13. Malakai Fekitoa
07. Heinrich Brussow	14. Chris Ashton
08. Dave Denton	15. Matt Tait

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16. Jamie George 17. Max Lahiff 18. Luc Ducalcon 19. Flip van der Merwe 20. Nathan Hughes 21. Henry Taylor 22. Freddie Burns 23. Scott Williams
 
Tactics

Ok, I can't really lose Robson without a no9 in return and I'm not a fan of Parra or Weber and I think Dickson is retiring.

Could we work something around Moriarty for Kremer? I also like Veainu too and Deveto.

I've decided that I won't Etzebeth as seems like someone I can build my team around. Richie Gray as an alternative lock option?

Moriarity I would do a straight swap for anyone of Kremer, Ioane, Underhill, Serin or Hughes. Would include an England player for the English in there too.

what for Haskell mate?

What for the following mate:

PR Alex Waller (England)
PR Tomas Francis (England)
LK Geoff Parling (England)
FL James Haskell (England)
FL Will Fraser (England) 

SH Morgan Parra (France)
SH Brad Weber (New Zealand)
CE Ollie Devoto (England)
WG George North (Wales)

2m for Fraser?

What for Veainu?

You'd get less in releases and you mentioned you were getting rid. No worries!

Underhill for Louw?

Also keen on Cole, Whitelock, Ioane, Moriarty, Hardie, Sanchez, RJVR, Isiekwe

No worries, he's levels above Hardie for me, would need top quality to let him go but happy to keep him as is!

Hello mate, seen your list that you're interested in of mine. I'm interested in Isiekwe, Cole, Whitelock, Underhill and Veanu. Let me know if you see anything there.

What for Earle and Devoto mate?

Parra?

To varying degrees I'd be interested in

Smith, Cole, Hill, Guirado, Whitelock, Kremer, Ioane, Underhill, Watson, Serin, Sanchez, Lambie, RJVR, Earle, Veainu, Hogg, Isiekwe

Depending on who you're willing to include in deals, can potentially work something out!

Starting point would be Whitelock, which I'm not sure you'd do!

Would realistically need eq prop and a centre for Morgan as he's an always available eq

Saracens
Manager – Pooly

01. Mohamed Boughanmi	09. Baptise Serin
02. Guilhem Guirado	10. Nicolas Sanchez
03. Dan Cole
04. Ed Slater	11. George North
05. Sam Whitelock(c)	12. Rohan Janse van Rensburg
06. James Haskell	13. Sonny Bill Williams
07. Hamish Watson	14. Telusa Veainu
08. Nathan Hughes	15. Stuart Hogg

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16. Richard Hibbard 17. Alex Waller 18. Paul Hill 19. Marcos Kremer 20. Sam Underhill 21. Morgan Parra 22. Pat Lambie 23. Nathan Earle

Tactics:

Defensive:

Blitz Defence - Get in the face of the opposition and allow them very little time on the ball.

Breakdown - Turnover possession: Your side is recognised to pick off turnovers at the breakdown, by getting the ball and gaining the penalty

Attacking:

Territorial Kicking: Looking to pin back sides and kick for open spaces or touch

Offloading in the tackle: Moving the point of attack preventing a defence to set and keeping play fluid

General - We'll be playing a structured physical game from the off, look to get at the opposition and target the breakdown. We'll look to tie the opposition in with our physical pack/carrying options and then get at their outisde backs, more so in their half. Look to keep it tight in the forward pack and grind through work. Looking to bring in the opposition pack and then use big carrying options to punch holes through their defence. Look to control the tempo and areas we play with kicking options at halfback.

Scrum - Look to get a platform from the off with a strong scrummaging unit. Strong front 5 with big locks will look for the big push once the ball is in and drive the opposition back. Our TH and Hooker will look to target LH and try to get between him and Hooker to allow LH to work on TH If no weakness seen will use as restart.

Line out – Look for safe ball with world class line out options and experience. Will allow SH good clean ball and have big carriers running off the 9 at angles. Look to target opposition throw and put pressure on the hooker.

Defence - Blitz defence with high intensity and big hits, looking to drive past the ball player if the ball hits the deck. physical pack that can look to get at the collision and breakdown allowing a chance to slow down/steal ball. Put pressure on SH's basics and force him into errors. Scrum half to sweep behind the defensive line.

Attack - Keep things simple in our own half then look to unleash backs in opp 22 territory. Scrum half to dictate play from the breakdown and runners on his shoulder. Huge carrying pack to get us over the gain line after front 5 set a platform. Midfield to run angles off the 9/10, allowing us gain line breakers. Look to keep opposition guessing with clever lines through midfield. Wingers will look to track the midfield combo.

After tighthead not loose