Ultimate Dream Team Fantasy

UDT Super Rugby just weeks away...Superbru has started some 6 Nations tipping games and a Fantasy competion is not far away there either..

 Brycy
Thanks for the info - I will start the necessary leagues over the next few days.  

 Brycy
I have re-activated the Superbru pools and the info is as follows:-
Predictor Game
Pool name - saruckersforumPool Code  - movebull
Superstars
Pool name - saruckersforumPool Code  - matespud
Fantasy Game
Pool name - saruckersforumPool Code  - doompunk
I could not find the UDT 2017 version - what I did find is that they are likely to go active soon.   I will activate the moment they go live.  
Any news about foxsport yet?
Test rugby is not active yet

... Nice 1, and I see there is also a 6 Nations comp on Superbru...

Hey guys Happy new year. I'm looking forward to super rugby! Here's hoping Sa bounce back after last year. Any word on Fox Sports comp yet? The Tradational fantasy comp? Guess we'll see it later in the month-early feb. Be interesting early picks.

 Hi 3ku1 how's it going mate? Yes, the Fantasy rugby can't start soon enough as far as I am concerned. That will increase the rugby content & related banter on this forum. As far as the Super comp itself... GO CHIEFS!

 Hey there 3kul !Hope your holidays were good mate and yup looking forwards to the new rugby season .I actually wouldnt mind if our Saffa friends had a win in the S18s if it gave their rugby a shot in the arm.Its no fun when they arent pushing our boys and kicking pommy butt when the poms wont face the Mighty ABs !Too right there JW .Fantasy footy eh ? The drug of choice for rugganuts the world over !I notice beendork doesnt compete ,maybe he doesnt want his ignorance even more overtly displayed eh ? heheheheh....

Wardad, this may be the year that wee chap Beeno finally mans up & signs up for fantasy rugby... miracles do happen, pigs could fly...one must remain optimistic

 Bump

 Brycy
I see Cruden has signed with Montpellier taking effect after the upcoming Superrugby series.

 Yes CleverMike, this article confirms it. Dagg and B. Smith are still not signed.
Campbell Burnes: NZ Rugby with work to do to retain stars

Two out of three ain't bad.

Now it is two out of two. That is the hope for New Zealand Rugby after the confirmation that Aaron Cruden is off to Montpellier on a three-year deal to chase the euro, nearly a million of them annually if the Midi Libre newspaper report is to be believed.

That leaves, if we assume that captain Kieran Read and Sam Whitelock will re-sign some time in the next few months, just Ben Smith and Israel Dagg of the front-liners who are not tied up beyond this season.

Steve Hansen is building a squad for RWC 2019 and would, naturally, love most of his men to stay. But he will be losing prop Charlie Faumuina to Toulouse after the Lions series, along with Cruden. Faumuina may prove to be a bigger loss than Cruden, as the tighthead depth is not as pronounced as in the first five ranks, where Lima Sopoaga is ripe for promotion behind Beauden Barrett. Hansen will be heaving a sigh of relief that Owen Franks put pen to paper last month.

Smith is the next in line and, at 30, it would be nice to think he will stick around to 2019 after a superb four years in black where he has made himself an indispensable, world-class performer. When Smith was the bolter for the 2009 northern tour, former Otago Daily Times rugby scribe Ali McMurran told me this lad from Green Island would grow to be a great All Black. I was sceptical then, but he was right. Sixty tests and 27 tries, nary a bad game among them testify to that. Smith is already a very fine All Black, but three more years will enhance his greatness. However, he is a family man now, so that is a consideration when faced with a massive amount of wedge from the north.

Dagg is an interesting case. His 2016 form, either at fullback or on the right wing, was so dynamic for the All Blacks that he may just want more of the same, still at just 28. Will he enjoy his footy as much as, say, Toulon, where you cannot be world-class other than in your bank balance?

There is a precedent for All Blacks departing in July, mid-season. Justin Marshall played against the 2005 Lions, though by then had ceded the starting halfback berth to his old sparring partner Byron Kelleher. Marshall then headed to Leeds, his time done at 32.

Where once it was the norm that those All Blacks in their early 30s would often fly the coop, now they are going in their late 20s.

If New Zealand Rugby fail to re-sign Smith and Dagg, so be it. Their exits will erode the outside back stocks, but Damian McKenzie will come straight into the fullback reckoning, as will Rieko Ioane and Nehe Milner-Skudder on the flanks. Depth is not a concern among the All Blacks, and their succession planning is rather more sophisticated than it was in 1998, when Sean Fitzpatrick, Frank Bunce, Zinzan Brooke and Olo Brown all departed at around the same time to general gnashing of teeth and the shame of five test losses on the bounce.

Over to you, Chris Lendrum, NZ Rugby contracts man. This is no major exodus, but there is work to do, and it may not be enough.

CleverMike, I don't see saruckersforum as a pool in Superbru. Did you create it, maybe I'm looking in the wrong part of Superbru.

 ...could'nt find it either JW...thought it might've been codes for 6 Nations but do'nt look like it..

 Brycy
I do not know what happened - but checking find the saruckersforum pools to be active.  Just search for a pool and type in the above info and you will find it.     

 some bad news, there won't be TestRugby fantasy game this year,... this is what they posted:

SORRY WE WONT BE RUNNING SUPER RUGBY OR 6 NATIONS IN 2017

It's time for us to take a break in 2017

Running fantasy rugby comps is a huge undertaking, every year we take it on and give it everything. It's hugely satisfying and a whole lot of fun. We've been doing it for a very long time and pretty-much for free! These days it's getting even harder, the comps are longer, the squads are bigger the workload is ever increasing.

New and Improved

We've always tried to make improvements to the game, doing so with very limited resources and budget. We've come to a crossroad where we know that we need to spend a lot more time and energy to move the site to a more mobile friendly platform, as web developers, we know that this will be a huge undertaking. As much as it pains us, we just can't commit to doing this in 2017. We have too much client work to deal with and our 'real' business is going through a growth period.

The future

Currently we are working on another project of huge significance so the rugby will take a back seat for the next 6 months or so. We hope to get back into further developments in 2018 but this will depend on how our 'real business life' pans out.

Thanks

We really appreciate all the support that we've had over the years, even the gripes about our stats, it's been a lot of fun. We've learned so much and made a lot of good friends along the way. We just hope that you can find something else to keep your rugby minds stimulated until we return. May the rugby gods be with you.

 I found the Super Rugby fantasy pool activated but t he Six Nations' it's not activated yet

 apf
I dill activate that one soon.

CleverMike, saruckersforum is still not showing when I am in Superbru in the section Super Rugby Fantasy Find/Join pool. I type in saruckersforum and system responds "NO results"

 you're right JW,.... when you type saruckersforum there are no results,... but the pool is activated,... I'm in coz I accepted an invitation from mike and I can enter into the pool (where we are only 2 members, mike and I) but when I try to find it through the search no results are shown,... very strange,...

people who last year was in the pool (i cannot remember if you were, JW) can integrate in this year's going through the tabs right under "Super Rugby Fantasy":

Overview   Select Squad  Starting Line-up  Points  Leaderboards   Pools

clicking on "Pools" a scroll will open where there's "last seasson's pools" tab

 I have asked to cite to send invitations to join to all members from last year.   Maybe that would help

 I don't think I was in SuperBru last year, I only participated in Fox Fantasy rugby.
From the screen you describe ABF when I click on Pools it does not show last years pools, probably because I was not a member of any pool last year.
I'm not too worried about it CleaverMike as I am mainly interested in Fox Fantasy super rugby. 

JW
If you do not mind  send me an e-mail at h msimon@mweb.co.za and I will make sure that you become a member.    

 Fox Sports is happening again this year. Apparently Late Jan-Early Feb we can sign up again. 

 ...UDT is up and running..

All the members except bazwaz and myself have to rejoin the league - the Code is 10557578630424.
Please join and we can proceed from there.