Probable Best XV's for 2014

[Memphistopheles]

Backs:  A.Rance, G.Birchall, R.Murphy, L.Hansen
Mids: J.Selwood, T.Rockliff, J.Watson, N.Fyfe
Ruck: T.Goldstein
Fwds: C.Dixon, M.Walters, R.Gray, J.Watts
Interchange: T.Boak,  D. Mundy

Back Reserves: R.Schoenmakers, T Murphy,  C Delaney, L.Delaney, J.Bootsma, B.Martin, K.Heatherley, J.Hunt, C.Byrne, J.Bruce
Mid Reserves: S.Grigg, A.Boston, N.Van Berlo, N.Holman, C.Sheehan
Ruck Reserves: J.Holmes (also C.Dixon who is F/R)
Forward Reserves: M.Clark , L.Hunter, K.Harper,J.Green,  D.Markworth, J.Walker, J.Stringer, S.Frost ,M.Taberner


Happy for people to point out any weakness, good luck ;P

The forward line is the obvious weakness there Holz. It has lots of potential but no real out and out guns.

[Memphistopheles]

Beijing Thunder Best XV:

D: H.Taylor / C.Hooker / M.Talia / J.Thurlow
M: D.Stanley / O.Wines / J.Aish / M.Jones
R: M.Kreuzer
F: S.Mayes / J.Caddy / E.Betts / S.Gumbleton
I/C: B.Grundy / L.Shiels



Beijing Thunder Reserves:

D: E.Yeo / L.Stevenson / A.Carlile / D.Glass / H.Schade
M: M.Rosa / J.Battersby / S.Gray / K.Mitchell / T.Temay
R: R.Lobb / S.Naismith
F: T.Varcoe / B.Kennedy / T.Broomhead / M.Harvey / J.Butcher / J.Petrenko / R.Tarrant / J.Stewart / T.O'Brien

Um, surely Yeo should be a starter over Thurlow who's not even a regular yet. Also the same goes for Rosa and Aish.

[Memphistopheles]

What about the mighty Islanders? ;)

Backs: D. Terlich T. Mohr, L. Spurr, A. Otten
Mids: J. Redden (C), T. Mitchell, J. Martin, B. Howlett
Ruck: M. Leuenberger (VC)
Forwards: J. Blair, M. de Boer, L. Thomas, J. Howe
Utilities: J. Elliot, M. Grigg

Now that Tmitch and Howlett are likely to get dpp I'd be looking to trade for some more good midfielders and play them up forward, then your team would look a lot better.

[Holz]

Backs:  A.Rance, G.Birchall, R.Murphy, L.Hansen
Mids: J.Selwood, T.Rockliff, J.Watson, N.Fyfe
Ruck: T.Goldstein
Fwds: C.Dixon, M.Walters, R.Gray, J.Watts
Interchange: T.Boak,  D. Mundy

Back Reserves: R.Schoenmakers, T Murphy,  C Delaney, L.Delaney, J.Bootsma, B.Martin, K.Heatherley, J.Hunt, C.Byrne, J.Bruce
Mid Reserves: S.Grigg, A.Boston, N.Van Berlo, N.Holman, C.Sheehan
Ruck Reserves: J.Holmes (also C.Dixon who is F/R)
Forward Reserves: M.Clark , L.Hunter, K.Harper,J.Green,  D.Markworth, J.Walker, J.Stringer, S.Frost ,M.Taberner


Happy for people to point out any weakness, good luck ;P

The forward line is the obvious weakness there Holz. It has lots of potential but no real out and out guns.

definately agree, dixon is a big gamble. I may be doing something to change this line though.

[pothead]

Wellington Warriors Senior XV:

Backs: Mitch Golby, Sean Dempster, Rory Thompson, Joel Patfull
Midfield: Marc Murphy, Brett Deledio, Isaac Smith, Lenny Hayes
Ruck: Hamish McIntosh,
Forward: Taylor Walker (when he comes back), Colin Sylvia, Jake Neade, Rohan Bewick
Int: Tendai Mzungu, Lachie Whitfield

[kilbluff1985]

and what bait that they can afford to lose should they use to get a couple of good mids?

[Memphistopheles]

Tokyo

Suckling, Ibbotson, Carlisle, Suban/Broughton
Jack, Shuey, Scooter, Parker
Smpson
Tippett, Dahlhaus, Henderson, Motlop
Judd, Mitchell

Is that Dawson Simpson as your #1 ruck? I hope you have decent backup otherwise you might struggle there.

Parker could be forward which improves your team. I don't like your defence for this year though, could be good in another few.

[JBs-Hawks]

Hmm this could be ugly after the defender carnage of Gibbs and Ellis to midfielders  :-[

DEF: Swallow, Roughead, N Wright, T Duryeal ( Maxwell, Weller, Sutcliffe, Darley, L Russell

MID: Gibbs, Ellis, Scully, Lucas ( Hocking, Salem, Newnes, Hunt, Anthony, Templeton, Langdon, Jansen)

RUCK: McEvoy (Grimley, McBean)

FWD: Dangerfield (C), Lecras, Ballantyne, Tom J Lynch (Maccaffer, Myglynn, Boyd, Maister)

INT: Coniglio, Josh Kelly

[Memphistopheles]

I'll post up a possible best team for us for comparison. We won't be a real contender this season I don't think but finals are not out of the equation.

Cape Town Cobras

Ben Reid, Cameron Guthrie, Cameron O'Shea, Nathan Bock
Trent Cotchin (C), Josh P Kennedy (VC), Ryan O'Keefe, Adam Cooney
Zac Smith
Jeremy Cameron, Jack Darling, Tom Hawkins, Shaun Higgins
Dale Thomas, Craig Bird

Depth: Jasper Pittard/Andrejs Everitt/James Gwilt, Dom Tyson/Jimmy Toumpas/Brad Hill, Nathan Vardy/Stefan Martin, Sam Reid/Jed Lamb/Gary Rohan

[kilbluff1985]

Tokyo

Suckling, Ibbotson, Carlisle, Suban/Broughton
Jack, Shuey, Scooter, Parker
Smpson
Tippett, Dahlhaus, Henderson, Motlop
Judd, Mitchell

Is that Dawson Simpson as your #1 ruck? I hope you have decent backup otherwise you might struggle there.

Parker could be forward which improves your team. I don't like your defence for this year though, could be good in another few.

we only have Simpson and West tried our best to get a premo ruck but couldn't, i think our defense is pretty solid

[Justin Bieber]

Think Beijing's year with that list will be 2016, and it will be a strong one at that

Yeah, if those youngsters are able to step up, would improve from this year easily!

PNL Reindeers:

Backs: K. Simpson, J. Harbrow, M. Williams, L. McPharlin
Mids: M. Priddis, D. Rich, N. Jones, L. Ball
Ruck: M. Lobbe
Fwds: C. Wingard, J. Westhoff, C. Rioli, M. Pavlich
Bench: D. Shiel, J. Grant

Back Reserves: T. Goldsack, M. Jaensch, J. Trengove, H. Grundy
Mid Reserves: F. Ray, D. Myers, C. Smith, B. McKenzie, J. Billings, E. Kavanagh
Ruck Reserves: J. Griffin
Forward Reserves: T. Lynch, J. Patton, L. Jones, L. Casboult, C. Dawes, Z. Merrett

Looking at our list, we have a nice mix of oldies and youngsters. Think forward line is stacked now despite Ossie saying it's weak in the trade thread before, think one of the best one in the league! Midfield is alright, not in the league of some of the others' though. We only have 2 ruckmen on our list.... And backs are meh :P.

[Nige]

Tokyo

Suckling, Ibbotson, Carlisle, Suban/Broughton
Jack, Shuey, Scooter, Parker
Smpson
Tippett, Dahlhaus, Henderson, Motlop
Judd, Mitchell

Is that Dawson Simpson as your #1 ruck? I hope you have decent backup otherwise you might struggle there.

Parker could be forward which improves your team. I don't like your defence for this year though, could be good in another few.

we only have Simpson and West tried our best to get a premo ruck but couldn't, i think our defense is pretty solid

You can have David Hale if you really want, would ask for a forward in return. He's F/R so even though he doesn't help long-term, he would short-term.  :)

[kilbluff1985]

nah not interested in Hale to old

[Nige]

nah not interested in Hale to old

Not even at 29 years young?  :P

[kilbluff1985]

nah not interested in Hale to old

Not even at 29 years young?  :P

not got much forward depth after trading Jetta and Mcglynn anyway