Guinness SIX Nations 2021

Bazzo

.ak wrote: »

ENGLAND vs SCOTLAND 6th of February

England: Elliot Daly, Anthony Watson, Henry Slade, Ollie Lawrence, Jonny May, Owen Farrell (captain), Ben Young; Ellis Genge, Jamie George, Will Stuart, Maro Itoje, Jonny Hill, Mark Wilson, Tom Curry, Billy Vunipola

Scotland: Hogg (capt); Maitland, Harris, Redpath, Van der Merwe, Russell, Price; Sutherland, Turner, Z Fagerson, Cummings, J Gray, Ritchie, Watson, M Fagerson.
Replacements: Cherry, Kebble, WP Nel, R Gray, Graham, Steele, Van der Walt, Jones

Are Fraser Brown and Stuart McInally injured or just out of form?

Lost Ormond

Bazzo wrote: »

Are Fraser Brown and Stuart McInally injured or just out of form?

Both injured. Likely to be out for full tournament.

.ak

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

Thought he'd died of starvation in the great "pear & prosciutto" famine of 2019

I had to resort to eating parma and melon like a common philistine. Times are tough!

.ak

Deleted User wrote: »

Thank you... but also, Banned.





I'll think of a reason later.

jacothelad

.ak wrote: »

Thank you... but also, Banned.





I'll think of a reason later.

Since when have you needed a reason.....:D

.ak

jacothelad wrote: »

Since when have you needed a reason.....:D

I've missed you.

.ak

ITALY vs FRANCE 6th of February


ITALY:
15 Jacopo Trulla (Kawasaki Robot Calvisano, 3 caps)
14 Luca Sperandio (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
13 Marco Zanon (Benetton Rugby, 4 caps)
12 Juan Ignacio Brex (Benetton Rugby, rookie)
11 Montanna Ioane (Benetton Rugby, 1 cap)
10 Paolo Garbisi (Benetton Rugby, 5 caps)
9 Stephen Varney (Gloucester Rugby, 3 caps)
8 Michele Lamaro (Benetton Rugby, 2 caps)
7 Johan Meyer (Zebre Rugby Club, 9 caps)
6 Sebastian Negri (Benetton Rugby, 28 caps)
5 David Sisi (Zebre Rugby Club, 11 caps)
4 Marco Lazzaroni (Benetton Rugby, 11 caps)
3 Marco Riccioni (Benetton Rugby, 7 caps)
2 Luca Bigi (Zebre Rugby Club, 32 caps) – captain
1 Cherif Traore (Benetton Rugby, 10 caps)

Replacements

16 Gianmarco Lucchesi (Benetton Rugby, 2 caps)
17 Danilo Fischetti (Zebre Rugby Club, 8 caps)
18 Giosuè Zilocchi (Zebre Rugby Club, 10 caps)
19 Niccolò Cannone (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
20 Federico Ruzza (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps)
21 Maxime Mbanda (Zebre Rugby Club, 25 caps)
22 Guglielmo Palazzani (Zebre Rugby Club, 41 caps)
23 Carlo Canna (Zebre Rugby Club, 47 caps)


FRANCE:
15. Brice Dulin (La Rochelle)
14. Teddy Thomas (Racing 92)
13. Arthur Vincent (Montpellier)
12. Gaël Fickou (Stade Français)
11. Gabin Villière (Toulon)
10. Matthieu Jalibert (Bordeaux-Bègles)
9. Antoine Dupont (Toulouse)

1. Cyril Baille (Toulouse)
2. Julien Marchand (Toulouse)
3. Mohamed Haouas (Montpellier)
4. Bernard Le Roux (Racing 92)
5. Paul Willemse (Montpellier)
6. Dylan Cretin (Lyon)
7. Charles Ollivon (c) (Toulon)
8. Grégory Alldritt (La Rochelle)

Replacements

16. Pierre Bourgarit (La Rochelle)
17. Jean-Baptiste Gros (Toulon)
18. Dorian Aldegheri (Toulouse)
19. Romain Taofifenua (Toulon)
20. Anthony Jelonch (Castres)
21. Baptiste Serin (Toulon)
22. Louis Carbonel (Toulon)
23. Damian Penaud (Clermont)

thomond2006

Stop wasting time posting teamsheets and ban Buer immediately.

Buer

.ak wrote: »

I had to resort to eating parma and melon like a common philistine. Times are tough!

Wow. That sounds like poison.

Yeah_Right

thomond2006 wrote: »

Stop wasting time posting teamsheets and ban Buer immediately.

That would be a Steven Donald level return to the big time!!

thomond2006

.ak wrote: »

I had to resort to eating parma and melon like a common philistine. Times are tough!

Buer wrote: »

Wow. That sounds like poison.

That was a Lowe blow, Buer.

pickarooney

(Kawasaki Robot Calvisano)

Screw Leinster, this is my team now.

.ak

Buer wrote: »

Wow. That sounds like poison.

Paul Smeenus

pickarooney wrote: »

(Kawasaki Robot Calvisano)

Screw Leinster, this is my team now.

I have zero interest in football, but if I had any, I would support an African team - either Botswana Meat Commission Football Club, Plateau United Feeders or Police Machine FC.

Thrashssacre

Anyone do a fantasy team for this year's 6 nation's? just after putting the finishing touches to mine, should make the two Saturday games a more interesting watch for me.

Thrashssacre

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Anyone do a fantasy team for this year's 6 nation's? just after putting the finishing touches to mine, should make the two Saturday games a more interesting watch for me.

Here's mine

Thrashssacre

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Here's mine

Here's my own.

Thrashssacre

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Here's my own.

Few thoughts: I went the route of maximising kickers. Jailbert, Halfpenny and Farrell. My captain is getting double points so I am going to pick someone who is playing against Italy. Hard to pick forwards. I was trying to go for players who go through as many tackles as possible. I was working off memory but that's why I went for VDF, James Ryan and Jonny Gray. It's a bit of a lottery picking try scorers but Jonny May has been on fire. I went for the relatively cheap French winger playing against Italy too. Ideally I'd have another French winger but I thought Jailbert and Dupoint were essential and the price of Thomas was too much.

PTH2009

Here's mine, is there a boards league for it

Bleating Lamb

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Seriously? Nearly a million people watch each 6N game. There are 50000 tickets available. Do the maths.

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Anyone do a fantasy team for this year's 6 nation's? just after putting the finishing touches to mine, should make the two Saturday games a more interesting watch for me.

Am going to do up a team....was I reading the 'rules' wrong or is the case that with your 3 subs you pick.... firstly you identify one as your 'supersub'....if one 'supersub' comes on off the bench he doubles his points....(so it would make sense to pick a good sub that isnt starting that rounds game for eg Ford for England.

And my reading of the rules are your other two subs only get half their points if they come on.....so you are better picking cheap lads from likes of Italy?

Thanks for any thoughts on whether I am interpreting rules correctly or not.

thomond2006

Rugby just doesn't lend itself to these kind of fantasy games.

If there was a fantasy game that took points from Opta stats or similar it might be decent.

realhorrorshow

thomond2006 wrote: »

Rugby just doesn't lend itself to these kind of fantasy games.

If there was a fantasy game that took points from Opta stats or similar it might be decent.

No points for turnovers is a bit of a shame.

clsmooth

Whats happened with Penaud? Was excellent in 2019. Can't remember when I last saw him. Has he been injured or out of favour with France?

Lost Ormond

clsmooth wrote: »

Whats happened with Penaud? Was excellent in 2019. Can't remember when I last saw him. Has he been injured or out of favour with France?

Some injuries. Missed all Autumn games due to injury

.ak

thomond2006 wrote: »

Rugby just doesn't lend itself to these kind of fantasy games.

If there was a fantasy game that took points from Opta stats or similar it might be decent.

SuperBru isn’t bad. Uses stats a day or two later,

The Inbetween is mine

Finally...it's 6 nations day!.. excitement levels mounting..

Scythica

.ak wrote: »

SuperBru isn’t bad. Uses stats a day or two later,

Therugbymag fantasy stuff is decent. I'm doing a 6N one and a premiership one. The prem one has a salary cap and all which is fun.

https://therugbymagazine.com/fantasy/help

.ak

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

Finally...it's 6 nations day!.. excitement levels mounting..

Obviously very different atmosphere to it all this year, but silver linings; working from home so I'll get to see everything, and hear everything. :pac: Some say you'd miss the afternoon fry, tea, papers, then pints, matches, laughs, more pints, but.... Yeah.... Damn.

Conrad89

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Here’s mine - first time considering subs for the games. Ollivon, DuPont and Jalibert seem to be the obv choices for this week.

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058157318

threw together an italy v france game thread...

someone else do something similar for England v scotland?

sydthebeat

my merry band

.ak

Who's kicking for France?

Not entirely sure how superbru scores etc but the team I've gone for:



Was going to have Jalibert as my kicker and ten, may change back before kick off. I presume he will kick but iirc Dulin is a decent kicker?

Have edited Williams in instead of Zanon.

.ak

Put a lot of green eggs in your basket there Venjur.... :P

What's your handle on it, just so I can watch your progress... closely.

.ak

.ak wrote: »

Put a lot of green eggs in your basket there Venjur.... :P

What's your handle on it, just so I can watch your progress... closely.

On the balance of probability and form I think England, France and Ireland should all win by margins greater than 7 - 10.

Wales have 7 wins out of 10 under Pivac, have some key suspensions and the regions are in the worst state I've ever seen them. Ireland haven't been brilliant but we've both a strong starting team and a particularly strong bench to throw at them and that will tell on the scoreboard I think. With the exception of Porter most of the Irish players I've picked I suspect will do the 80. POM might come off for Connors but he'll have emptied the tank by then.

England haven't featured as much because some of the key players have little rugby under their belts and whilst I think they'll turn Scotland over I'm not sure how clinical they will be. If I knew for certain that Jalibert was kicking I'd drop Farrell.

I expect France to come out of the blocks hard against Italy. Italy are playing some nice attacking rugby but their defence is poor. I think both teams will run in a few score but I could see France cutting loose a bit.

I don't know how superbru scores so chances are some of my picks are naive.

Lost Ormond

Deleted User wrote: »

Not entirely sure how superbru scores etc but the team I've gone for:



Was going to have Jalibert as my kicker and ten, may change back before kick off. I presume he will kick but iirc Dulin is a decent kicker?

Have edited Williams in instead of Zanon.

Superbru scores everything. From trys, try assists, if forwards win 90% of their lineouts, ball carrying and metres gained. loads more as well

Any leagues to join? Is there a boards league? Maybe awec can sort one...

Lost Ormond

Deleted User wrote: »

Any leagues to join? Is there a boards league? Maybe awec can sort one...

On superbru. blocrely is code. search boards.ie and then add code

PMC83

Is Parisse playing his swan song this tournament or has he officially retired?

.ak

Join Boards.ie 6N Pool, my Six Nations Fantasy league on @Superbru! You can find my pool here:

https://www.superbru.com/sixnationsfantasy/pool.php?p=12303299

Actually just setup a boards pool if anyone fancies joining. Just bragging rights, unless I go ahead after rd1....

EDIT: Sorry, just seen your pool LO, I'll join that!

Lost Ormond

Lost Ormond wrote: »

On superbru. blocrely is code. search boards.ie and then add code

Didn't ask me for code but think I'm in

DJIMI TRARORE

Any predictions for this, France by 45+,

Switched to Jalibert 5 mins before deadline - getting rewarded for it so far!

Arduach

The accent on this commentator always does my head in.

post=pooust

Italy don't deserve to be 10 nil down.

Dupont, Tomas, Jalibert doing me a real solid here.

Thrashssacre

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dupont, Tomas, Jalibert doing me a real solid here.

Regretting i swapped jailibert with garbisi but have a couple it French back rows who haven't exactly had bad games.

razorblunt

I forgot Redpath has flopped back to Scotland after flipping to England.

fryup

are they piping fake crowd sound in the TV coverage??

I don't think so, mics close to the players.

ongarite

The jerseys will be pretty red by end of the match