all teams named for RC/4nats rnd2.

Match No.3: New Zealand v Australia
Date : 24 Aug 2013
Venue : Westpack Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
Referee: JACO PEYPER
Assistant Ref 1:CRAIG JOUBERT
Assistant Ref 2:LOURENS VAN DER MERWE
TMO : SHAUN VELDSMAN

All Blacks
15 Israel Dagg, 14 Ben Smith, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Tom Taylor, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Steven Luatua, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Sam Whitelock, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Tony Woodcock
Replacements: 16 Dane Coles, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Charlie Faumuina, 19 Jeremy Thrush, 20 Sam Cane, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Colin Slade, 23 Charles Piutau.
v
wallabies
1 James Slipper, 2. Stephen Moore, 3. Ben Alexander, 4. Rob Simmons, 5. James Horwill, 6. Scott Fardy, 7. Michael Hooper, 8. Ben Mowen, 9. Will Genia, 10. Matt Toomua, 11. James O’Connor, 12. Christian Leali’ifano, 13. Adam Ashley-Cooper, 14. Israel Folau,15. Jesse Mogg
Replacements16. Saia Fainga’a, 17. Scott Sio, 18. Sekope Kepu, 19. Kane Douglas, 20. Liam Gill, 21. Nic White, 22. Quade Cooper, 23. Tevita Kuridrani 



argentina
1- Marcos Ayerza, 2- Eusebio Guiñazú, 3- Juan Figallo, 4- Julio Farías Cabello, 5- Mariano Galarza, 6- Pablo Matera, 7- Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 8- Leonardo Senatore, 9- Martín Landajo, 10- Nicolás Sánchez, 11- Horacio Agulla, 12- Felipe Contepomi (c), 13- Marcelo Bosch, 14- Gonzalo Camacho, 15- Lucas Gonzalez
Replacements:16- Agustín Creevy, 17- Nahuel Lobo, 18 Matías Díaz, 19- Tomas Lavaninni, 20 Benjamin Macome, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22- Santiago Fernandez, 23- Juan Imhoff
v
Springboks
15 Willie le Roux, 14 Bjorn Basson, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai Mtawarira .
Replacements: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Gurthrö Steenkamp, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Flip van der Merwe, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Jano Vermaak, 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Jan Serfontein

Match No.4 : Argentina v South Africa
Date : 24 Aug 2013
Venue : Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina
Referee: STEVE WALSH
Assistant Ref 1:JOHN LACEY
Assistant Ref 2:PASCAL GAUZERE
TMO : VINNY MUNRO

howdy peeps,

a bit of news for us crazy fantasy types, but first of special congrats to
1 - cave dwellers, 2 - jakes men and 3 - myslef for the podium finish in round 1in the testrugby.com fantasy site

1 - shezzaXV, 2 - lucids team, 3 - wfunston for their podium finish in foxsport

nice work boys keep up the good work and for the rest of u/us, lets do our best to topple them this week, :o)

teams havent been named yet, but there is some news which can now be updated.
missing from this weekends game due to injury will be,,,
aaron cruden (All Blacks)
beauden barret (All Blacks)
luke romano (All Blacks)
hugh mcmeniman (wallabies)

any other updates with players confirmed to not be playing, just leave a reply for us to read and do the same if u see one of the RC/4nats teams named, and i will update ASAP, :o)

good luck to all ur teams both officially and of the fantasy variety and as always have fun, :o)

*update*

Boks have been updated, :o)

@mikey,
gunthros a bad selection, but the teams still strong and will be too strong for the pumas.

then again, this time last year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, o_O

It's official, Tom Taylor will start at 10. Spade pm bench. Full team shown on NZ herald.

*update*

All Blacks have been updated, :o)

nice team, good te see piutau, thrush and coles get some big game matches under their belt an good luck to taylor, :o)

GO THE MIGHTY MIGHTY ALL BLACKS!!!

*update*

wallabies have been updated, :o)

big balls on mackenzie to stick with most of the team, especially mogg who proved to be a big dud.
leaving folau on the wing is questionable, just mkae sure he dosent gett he ball and the rest will fall into the All blacs place.

Just thought I'd mention that I've had me a good look see at the foxsport fantasy version ... and am excited about it. 

Should have played the super 15.

Awesome fun.

Hope to make inroads this weekend.

Mike ... from what I've seen so far, you can select no more than 6 guys from 3 teams with 5 from the 4th making up your match 23.

Then it's a matter of picking who you want benched, who in turn may even get a run ... scoring you points.

Personally hanging onto the likes of a Carter and a Lobbe who may only come in later doesn't quite work for me at this stage in time.  I need as many of my 23 on the park sometime or another.

I've now seen how important it is to select one's captain.

There's still much for me to learn ... however getting the best mix of players into my match 23 as early as possible is what I've worked on. 

I banged on the calculator before I commited myself to anyone.

Think I've got my strategy sorted. Hope so!! Time will tell.

Be afraid ... be VERY AFFFFFFFRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!

Smith may have scored a hat trick last weekend, which no doubt aided his awesome fantasy score ... however ... how often does that happen? Back to back??? I doubt it.

Besides ... his work rate off the ball needs attention. I saw better performances than his over the weekend and if they had chalked up 3 trys they may even have surpassed him.

Based on that I've decided to gamble on another. 

Steyn is known to be a bad traveller. He shines at home but overseas he seems to doubt himself. He's not part of my plans currently.

Gooooooooooooooooooooo Giaaaaaaaaaaaaannntsssssss!!!

I'm back!!

Just had 2 + weeks of in laws in town. SA's were everywhere!!

Thanks for the invite to test rugby, Oimatey. I will join in now. Will also give foxsports a try if I have time. Back at work now and really busy.

Oimatey, did you get to go see the Canada-USA Qualifying match??

What league do I join in foxsports??

*update*

pumas have been updated, and big congrats and good luck to olecruz, :o)


@cleancut,
dont forget about the wildcard either bro, it lets u for one round only change ur entire team, good when ur in a pinch cos of non selections or injuries.

spot on about ben smith and his hattrick, but for what its worth, ben smith had a very high aggerate score throughout the wholespXV and that form is still continuing.
for me i dont think i can afford to leave him out so im bringing him in this week on my foxsport team at least.

@canrugby,

the league is sarugby.com and the codes u need to join are

classic league - 447-3350

&

head to head - 447-3351

:o)

Thanks Sas. I found the wildcard. Reckon I'll hang on to it till a little later.

Ben Smith is good enough to crack my team. I have him chalked up but not as captain.

He may have had a satisfactoty Super rugby average on testrugby but still didn't make the top 3 outside backs for the season.

Not sure how well he did in the foxport version. Is that what your referring to?

As I said before ... have MUCH to learn.

Can - I didn't go. Forecast was calling for rain so decided not to make the trip. Canada really dominated, eh?

@cleancut,

yeah its good to save the wildcard, personally i dont think u need it, 6 transfers per week is more then pleny, wish test rugby had a wild card though.

and yeah i ben smiths stats in the foxsport is what i was reffering too, im struggling to put him in my teams though maybe over savea,,,,,,,, hmmmmm :o/

 @sasuke san: yeah, the only way I could get Ben Smith on my team was to drop Savea - I may live to regret that though,, lol

@mr win,

yes the second guessing in fantasy rugby is a killer, just ask mikey, lolz, :oP

IMO the All Blacks outside backs are the best in the world at the moment, so ive decided to spread them amongst the two fanatsy teams, have ben smith and dagg in ,y fosxport team and savea in my testrugby team. that way if one of them has a blinder, i will cash in on some level, lolz, :oP

used htree transfers this week in testrugby, will stingy from here on out over the next two tests though.

good luck to everyone, i will post my full teams closer to the game, :o)