I am actually genuinely stoked with how I've drafted. I don't think my team is considerably worse than anyones which I expected it to be and while I've stocked up on Australians they're the better ones.
Code: 1. Mtawarira, Tendai 27 RSA Sharks (SH) #1 2. Fainga'a, Saia 26 AUS Reds (SH) #2 3. Slipper, James 23 AUS Reds (SH) #3/1 4. Horwill, James 28 AUS Reds (SH) #4/5 5. Ryan, Donnacha 29 IRE Munster (NH) #5/4/6 6. Dennis, David 27 AUS Waratahs (SH) #6/8 7. Warburton, Sam 24 WAL Cardiff (NH) #7/6 8. Heaslip, Jamie 29 IRE Leinster (NH) #8 9. Genia, Will 25 AUS Reds (SH) #9 10. Lambie, Pat 22 RSA Sharks (SH) #10/12/15 11. Tomane, Joe 23 AUS Brumbies (SH) #11/14/13 12. Barnes, Berrick 27 AUS Waratahs (SH) #12/10/15 13. Horne, Rob 23 AUS Waratahs (SH) #13 14. Mitchell, Drew 29 AUS Toulon (NH) #14/11/15 15. Steyn, Francois 26 RSA Sharks (SH) #15/12/10/14 16. Grant, Ryan 27 SCO Glasgow (NH) #1 17. Ma'afu, Salesi 30 AUS Force (SH) #3 18. Hanson, James 24 AUS Reds (SH) #2 19. Charteris, Luke 30 WAL Perpignan (NH) #4/5 20. O'Mahony, Peter 23 IRE Munster (NH) #6/8/7 21. Cowan, Jimmy 31 NZ Gloucester (NH) #9 22. Michalak, Frédéric 30 FRA Toulon (NH) #10/9 23. Harris, Michael 24 AUS Reds (SH) #12/15/10 24. Palu, Wycliff 30 AUS Waratahs (SH) #8 25. Palisson, Alexis 25 FRA Toulon (NH) #15 Average age XV: 25.8 Average age Squad: 26.5 By Country: AUS: 13 RSA: 3 NZ : 1 IRE: 3 WAL: 2 FRA: 2 SCO: 1 By Hemisphere: SH: 15 NH: 10 Thought I'd have a 50/50 or even more NH biased squad before this but I guess with very few Australians in this (I think it's just Alex & I?) there've been heaps of good Australians who are your kind of fringe wallabies who are available. There's on SH I'm dying to take but ugh Cowan was a better pick I guess.
1. Domingo 2. Hibbard 3. Jones 4. Maestri 5. Evans 6. Ferris 7. Tipuric 8. Picamoles 9. Phillips 10. Farrell 11. Visser 12. Twelvetrees 13. Tuilagi 14. McCabe 15. Hogg 16. Ford 17. Stevens 18. 19. Launchbury 20. Coetzee 21. Machenaud 22. Williams 23. Laidlaw 24. 25. 26. 27. Clarke 28. 29. Basson 30.
Cheers. I'm a little worried about my 10/12/15 in that they're all kind of jacks of all trades masters of none but I guess thta's the cost of versatility. Not sure what to do with O'Mahony either. He's well good enough to start but I'm not sure whether I should just keep him on the bench due to his utility-ness or fuck someone like Dennis off.
1. Sona Taumalolo 2. Craig Moore 3. Alex Corbisiero 4. Eben Etzebeth 5. Sam Whitelock 6. Adam Thomson 7. Dan Lydiate 8. Ben Morgan 9. Piri Weepu 10. Dan Carter 11. Bryan Habana 12. Francis Saili 13. Juan De Jongh 14. Zac Guildford 15. Ben Foden 16. Dane Coles 17. Ben Afeaki 18. Sebastian Chabel 19. Rocky Elsom 20. Tawera Kerr Barlow 21. Gareth Anscombe 22. Mike Brown 23. Charlie Faumuina 24. Maxime Mermoz 25. Ben Tameifuna 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
1. Gurthro Steenkamp 2. Dimitri Szarzewski 3. Alen Jacobsen 4. Courtney Lawes 5. Luke Romano 6. Steven Luatua 7. George Smith 8. Imanol Harinorduqoy 9. Fourie Du Preez 10. Matt Giteau 11. Keith Earls 12. SBW 13. Jacques Fourie 14. James O'Connor 15. Mils Muliaina 16. Aled de Malmanche 17. Heinke vd Merwe 18. BJ Botha 19. Jeandre Kruger 20. Ryan Kankowski 21. Nic White 22. James Hook 23. Sitiveni Sivivatu 24. Andrew Sheridan 25. 26. Joe van Niekerk 27. Robbie Freuan 28. 29. 30.
Mariner's Tigers 1. Benn Robinson 2. Tom Youngs 3. Martín Castrogiovanni 4. Geoff Parling 5. Pascal Papé 6. Kelly Brown 7. James Haskell 8. Sergio Parisse 9. Ben Youngs 10. Toby Flood 11. Simon Zebo 12. Gordon D'Arcy 13. Jonathan Davies 14. Chris Ashton 15. Leigh Halfpenny 16. Mako Vunipola 17. Craig Mitchell 18. 19. 20. Jordan Crane 21. Conor Murray 22. Luke McLean 23. Mathew Tait Andrew Trimble Mark Cueto Robert Barbieri
Weeman27bob's Fantastic French and Friends XV 1. Cian Healy 2. Dylan Hartley 3. Euan Murray 4. Lionel Nallet 5. Alun Wyn Jones 6. Julien Bonnaire 7. Chris Robshaw 8. Victor Vito 9. Morgan Parra 10. Johnny Sexton 11. Juan Imhoff 12. Aurelien Rougerie 13. Wesley Fofana 14. Maxime Medard 15. Rob Kearney 16. Luc Ducalcon 17. Leonardo Ghiraldini 18. Nicolas Mas 19. Marco Bortolami 20. Dave Attwood 21 Lionel Beauxis 22. Andrea Masi 23. Dimitri Yachvili 24. David Strettle 25. Alasdair Strokosch 10 French players 4 English players 3 Irish players 3 Italian players 2 Scottish players 1 Argentinian player 1 New Zealander
Oh no, fair enough, yours is pretty good too. In fact it's probably better than mine. I think Parra > Weepu, but Carter >>>>> Sexton
Pretty much. Weepu is a player who has loads of bad games, but when he turns up he'll control it, so he'll get a higher rating than he deserves. Would possibly rather have Parra, but IMO Genia is way in front of the rest of the world (Barring Good day Weepu, who's marginally better. But doesn't happen enough.)
Which isn't bad for the fourth pick tbh, no way Farrell should've gone before him. Or even debatably Sexton.
