We’re back! Premiership Rugby is here again but sadly it is without our great friends at Fantasy Rugby Draft. Fingers crossed it is just a short term hiatus. Make sure you give them plenty of love on Twitter to show them how much the Fantasy Rugby Community is missing them!
🛠 UPDATE: A number of our managers have asked the same question 🙋♂️
— Fantasy Rugby Draft 🏉 (@FantasyRugDraft) September 16, 2021
✅ This is just a pause, Fantasy Rugby Draft will be back next season 📆
We do have two games running for Prem this season though, The Rugby Magazine and Fantasy Rugby World, so sign up and get picking!
Welcome to our latest instalment of our weekly pre-match updates where we analyse the weekend’s lineups, crunch the stats and see what the bookies are thinking to help you optimise your lineups for peak performance this weekend! By the time you finish this article you should have all the insight you need to score big fantasy points this weekend.
Make sure you come back every weekend before finalising your lineups!
Potential mismatches
As things stand, a full set of matches again. Here are the projected lines…
- Sale to beat Bath by 9 points
- Northampton to beat Gloucester by 7 points
- Bristol to beat Saracens by 6 points
- Harlequins to beat Newcastle by 5 points
- Exeter to beat Leicester by 1 point
- Worcester to beat London Irish by 1 point
This week Wasps are on a bye
Expected to go well on Fantasy Rugby Draft and The Rugby Magazine
*Players who are starting favourably out of position (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)
FRONT ROW
- Ellis Genge (Leicester)
- Nick Schonert (Sale)
- Ralph Adams-Hale (Saracens)
- Jake Woolmoore (Bristol)
- Akker Van Der Merwe (Sale)
- Harry Thacker (Bristol)
- Jack Walker (Harlequins)
LOCKS
- Dave Ribbans (Northampton)
- Chris Vui (Bristol)
- Sean Lonsdale (Exeter)
- Ben Morgan (Gloucester)
- Adam Coleman (London Irish)
BACK ROW
- Jack Clement (Gloucester)
- Ben Earl (Saracens)
- Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins)
- Matt Rogerson (London Irish)
- Hanro Liebenberg (Leicester)
- Jack Kenningham (Harlequins)
SCRUM-HALF
- Danny Care (Harlequins)
- Raffi Quirke (Sale)
- Andy Uren (Bristol)
FLY HALF
- Callum Sheedy (Bristol)
- Tommaso Allan (Harlequins)
- Joe Simmonds (Exeter)
CENTRES
- Piers O’Connor (Bristol)
- Joe Marchant (Harlequins)
- Rory Hutchison (Northampton)
- Nick Tompkins (Saracens)
- Andre Esterhuizen (Harlequins)
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Tyrone Green (Harlequins)
- Ollie Thorley (Gloucester)
- Charles Piutau (Bristol)
- Jonny May (Gloucester)
- Ioan Lloyd (Bristol)
- Josh Hodge (Exeter)
- Louis Lynagh (Harlequins)
Premiership Rugby Injury News
Gaining reliable Injury news for the Premiership is extremely difficult, and while we don’t have a database of the latest injuries at Fantasy Rugby Geek, we would highly recommend The Rugby Magazine’s injuries page which remains the most exhaustive source of Premiership injury news that can be found. Details of this and many other useful Fantasy Rugby resources can be found at our Resources page.
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