My preliminary squad: 1. Gurthro Steenkamp (SA) 2. Dimitri Szarzewski (FRA) 3. Alen Jacobsen (SCO) 4. Courtney Lawes (ENG) 5. Luke Romano (NZ) 6. Steven Luatua (NZ) 7. George Smith (AUS) 8. Imanol Harinorduqoy (FRA) 9. Fourie Du Preez (SA) 10. Matt Giteau (AUS) 11. Keith Earls (IRE) 12. SBW (NZ) 13. Jacques Fourie (SA) 14. James O'Connor (AUS) 15. Mils Muliaina (SA) 16. Aled de Malmanche (NZ) 17. Heinke vd Merwe (SA) 18. BJ Botha (SA) 19. Jeandre Kruger (SA) 20. Ryan Kankowski (SA) 21. Nic White (AUS) 22. James Hook (WAL) 23. Robbie Freuan (NZ) 24. Gary Botha (SA) 25. Joe van Niekerk (SA) 26. Alby Matthewson (NZ) Agents: 27. Andrew Sheridan (ENG) 28. Alistair Hargreaves (SA) 29. Nick Evans (NZ) 30. Sitiveni Sivivatu (NZ)
It's really hard to pick a final squad, because we don't know what the players are like in terms of their skills so you might leave out the one's you think are worse, but then the game rates them better.
Whatcha mean? You can change your 23 man squad/ starting xv each round. It's just your 26- 30 man squad you're finalising.
Can I pick a 23 man starting team out of the whole group of 30 every time, or is it the 26? What I mean is I for example have the following props: Steenkamp, Jacobsen, Vd Merwe and Sheridan, but I am unsure which of them are better and thus unsure who to pick to start. Will we be getting the player ratings before we have to finalise our 26 man squads assuming that the answer to the top question is 26?
You can pick a 23 man starting squad every time out of your squad of players which was a minimum of 26 players and max of 30. So if you have 30 men in your finalised squad you can use any of them for the 23 each week. There'll be pre season games and yes there'll be player ratings of some sort. Really just going through the process of updating heaps of ratings atm and once that (and people have posted their tactics) we can get started.
