Super Rugby - Team Selection Round 2

Western Force . . .

15 Zack Holmes, 14 Luke Morahan, 13 Kyle Godwin, 12 Junior Rasolea, 11 Marcel Brache, 10 Sias Ebersohn, 9 Alby Mathewson, 8 Ben McCalman, 7 Chris Alcock, 6 Angus Cottrell, 5 Adam Coleman, 4 Sam Wykes (c), 3 Tetera Faulkner, 2 Nathan Charles, 1 Francois van Wyk

Replacements: 16 Heath Tessmann, 17 Chris Heiberg, 18 Oliver Hoskins, 19 Steve Mafi, 20 Brynard Stander, 21 Ian Prior, 22 Luke Burton, 23 Mitchell Scott

Pek Cowan is out.

 Rebels and Western Force Updated

Sharks sticking with that centre combo.....that makes no sense. I like Heimar Williams but not ahead of Esterhuizen  

 
Lions

15. Andries Coetzee, 14. Ruan Combrinck, 13. Lionel Mapoe, 12. Howard Mnisi, 11. Courtnall Skosan, 10. Marnitz Boshoff,  9.  Ross Cronje,  8.  Warren Whiteley (c), 7.  Warwick Tecklenburg, 6.  Derick Minnie, 5.  Franco Mostert, 4.  Martin Muller, 3.  Ruan Dreyer, 2.  Malcolm Marx, 1.  Jacques van Rooyen

Replacement

16. Robbie Coetzee, 17. Schalk van der Merwe, 18. Julian Redelinghuys, 19. JP du Preez, 20. Ruaan Lerm, 21. Faf de Klerk, 22. Elton Jantjies, 23. Harold Vorster

Kriel is out injured.

Powerful replacement front row.

Blues . . .

15 Charles Piutau, 14 Ben Lam, 13 Hamish Northcott, 12 Francis Saili, 11 Tevita Li/Lolagi Visinia, 10 Ihaia West, 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Jerome Kaino (c), 7 Brendon O'Connor/Luke Braid/Akira Ioane, 6 Steven Luatua, 5 Hayden Triggs/Patrick Tuipulotu, 4 Josh Bekhuis/Tuipulotu, 3 Angus Ta'avao/Charlie Faumuina, 2 James Parsons, 1 Tony Woodcock.

Replacements: 16 Matt Moulds, 17 Greg Pleasants-Tate/Ofa Tu'ungafasi/Sam Prattley 18 Charlie Faumuina/Angus Ta'avao, 19 Patrick Tuipulotu/Hayden Triggs/Josh Bekhuis, 20 Luke Braid/Akira Ioane/Brendan O'Connor, 21 Jamison Gibson-Park, 22 Dan Bowden, 23 Lolagi Visinia/ Tevita Li.

Not much of a team sheet really with half the players bracketed but that's what they've put up.

 Thanks CC  and Rooinek
Lions and Blues updated - now it is only the hopeless bloody Stormers outstanding.

Really want to know if Nissan skyliner Carr is playing this weekend, it's important to both my fantasy teams.
I rate Carr a lot, imo he's SA most dangerous player, closest thing I've seen to Michael jones ever.

 seems that Kirwan is a little bit doubtful

11 Tevita Li/Lolagi Visinia,
7 Brendon O'Connor/Luke Braid/Akira Ioane,
5 Hayden Triggs/Patrick Tuipulotu
4 Josh Bekhuis/Tuipulotu,
3 Angus Ta'avao/Charlie Faumuina

17 Greg Pleasants-Tate/Ofa Tu'ungafasi/Sam Prattley
18 Charlie Faumuina/Angus Ta'avao
20 Luke Braid/Akira Ioane/Brendan O'Connor,
19 Patrick Tuipulotu/Hayden Triggs/Josh Bekhuis,
23 Lolagi Visinia/ Tevita Li.

this is a mess for the fantasy.
Next time instead of the starting 23 he can show up the whole blues team (EPS included) and sure he gets it right

 Geez is the whole of Auckland playing. Just chuck in the local brewery, while your at it chuck in the indian from the dairy down the road. I mean boy JK make your mind up.

 Sasue

I am desperately tryingt to find the Stormers team - but no luck thus far.   I tried their website, the local media, news24, all the rugby websites - no luck.   Will start again going through that lot again.

 Useless Stormers updated

 Thanks Mickey, that's helped out big time. Baffling though to see Carr still on the bench.
@lucky Luke,Lolz, armies got all the speed and skill of the iceman, but not the physicality,,,,,not yet anyway,

It is baffling to see donkeys like Elstadt and Rhodes selected ahead of the Nissan Car, but it worked for them last weekend.

 Ok that's my teams sorted and no more cruden debacles like last week, lolz but letting go of Carr freed up some serious moolah for me,
Not a fan of the new setup on foxsport fantasy rugby, old way was better imo, .

Anyways, thanks mike root and co, and good luck to everybody, 
GO THE MIGHTY HURRICANES!!!

My laptop has crapped out, and autocorrect on iPad is why there's so much spaghetti English  

My laptop has crapped out, and autocorrect on iPad is why there's so much spaghetti English  

 Sasue
Good luck to you and everybody also.  I do not like the format a well - but what can we do about it?
I wandser whether I shoul; give away my Trade secrets and tell you what I did on Foxsport this time around:-
FR    -     Steven Kitshoff,  James Slipper                    Bench  -   T Melcher
HO   -     Malcolm Marx,                    Bench  -     J Sampson
LO      -    Pieter-Steph du Toit, Ruan Botha                   Bench  -   Nicholaas Janse van Rensburg
LF     -   Michael Hooper, Duane Vermeulen, Lappies Labuscgane                   Bench  -   F Quirk
SH     -   Bic White                   Bench -  M Drummond
FH      -   Handre Pollard                   Bench  -  W du Plessis
CE      -  S-B Williams, T Kuridrani                   Bench  -   M Fekitoa
OB        -  Israel Folau, Julian Savea, J Lowe                   Bench -   J Kriel
Would have liked to have De Allende in the mix as well - but have to do with 3 centers and I am afrad I cannot have him.  Am worried about Fejitoa - it is his first game tomorrow and he may be a bot green - hence my preference for Kuridrane.
Hope Julian Savea wakes up and doi something - he was poor in Round 1.
            

v /Rensburg is not even in the Bulls match 23!! 

 Dave
Melcher and Van Rensburg are cost-saving players - the cheapest available,   I will have to phase them out gradually - waiting for Etzebeth to get my lock selections right.  

Thanks for the hard work on this thread Mike and mates.

 ...not so clevermike SBW didn't train with the team yesterday so not sure if he's even playing...

 Brycy
If SBW is not playing Fekitoa will be regarded as a starter and earn points for me in any event.   Problem will be on the Test Rugby and Dream team side.    If you get confirmation - please let me know as a matter of urgency.
Thanks, my friend.  

 Mikey, I would love to hear ur tactics on the matter, lolz, 
I will even share a thought I've been having regarding sbw and testrugby.Imo the scoring system in testrugby makes sbw a bad pick considering his price.
I'm sticking with sbw until the Chiefs bye comes round, but if his scores remain the same, it might be better to look elsewhere when it comes to testrugby.
Now about those tactics of urs u wished to share with me....

I know it's a bit late but the Blues have finalized their team . . .

Charles Piutau, Ben Lam, Hamish Northcott, Francis Saili, Tevita Li, Ihaia West, Jimmy Cowan; Jerome Kaino (c), Brendon O'Connor, Steven Luatuam Hayden Triggs, Josh Bekhuis, Angus Ta'avao, James Parsons, Tony Woodcock. Reserves: Matt Moulds, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Charlie Faumuina, Patrick Tuipulotu, Luke Braid, Jamison Gibson-Park, Dan Bowden, Lolagi Visinia.

Faumuina, Visinia and Tuipolotu all start off the bench.

In other news, Karmichael Hunt has been withdrawn from the Reds team this weekend after the cocaine allegations against him. As far as I know, no replacement has been named yet.

 Now lets look at my Foxsport selections and see how the players have done thus far:-
Slipper    -   Play tomorrowKitshoff   -   Play tomorrowMarx       -   Play tomorrowDu Toit   -   Play tomorrowHooper    -   Did well - should be worth good pointsLabuschagne -   Did well - should be worth good pointsVermeulen - Play tomorrowWhite       - Moderatne performance - Pollard      -  Did well - should be worth good pointsWilliams    -  Pain in the wrong place -  Fekitoa stands in for himFekitoa    -   Play tomorrow
Kuridrani   -  Moderate performance  -  probably not good enoughSavea      -  Did well - should be worth good pointsFolau       -  Did well - should be worth good points
Of the six players I had for today's matches four should score well and 2 is likely to be disappointing.       

 Kuridrani plays tomorrow Cl everMike.

 JW
Sorry - you are wrong.  Kuridrani played yesterday for the Brumbies against the Chiefs.  Not blaming you for missing that one - Kuridrani did nothing noticeable in that game.  Will have to replace him with De Allende - depending on the latter's performance today .   

 CleverMike: there are two Kuridran's, the second one hasn't played yet this week.