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!
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Potential mismatches
Here are the projected lines courtesy of Paddy Power…
- Saracens to beat Newcastle by 13 points
- Exeter to beat Worcester by 12 points
- Leicester to beat London Irish by 7 points
- Sale to beat Gloucester by 5 points
- Harlequins to beat Bristol by 1 point
- Wasps to beat Northampton by 1 point
Premiership Bye Situation
In order to help you plan your transfers, here’s a quick overview of the upcoming byes.
This week Bath are on a bye.
Upcoming byes: Round 21 – Harlequins; Round 22 – Leicester; Round 23 – Sale
Rounds until next bye…
- Exeter – 4 Rounds
- Harlequins – 1 Round
- Leicester – 2 Rounds
- London Irish – 6 Rounds
- Sale – 3 Rounds
- Worcester – 5 Rounds
Wasps, Saracens, Gloucester, Newcastle, Bristol and Northampton have no more bye weeks
Expected to go well on Fantasy Rugby World and The Rugby Magazine
*Players who are starting favourably out of position (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)
FRONT ROW
- Bevan Rodd (Sale)
- Vincent Koch (Saracens)
- Will Goodrick-Clarke (London Irish)
- Coenie Oosthuizen (Sale)
- Julian Monyoya (Leicester)
- Tom Woolstencroft (Saracens)
- Agustin Creevy (London Irish)
LOCKS
- Elliott Stooke (Wasps)
- Theo McFarland (Saracens)
- Jean-Luc Du Preez (Sale)
- Freddie Clarke (Gloucester)
- Joe Batley (Worcester)
BACK ROW
- Hanro Liebenberg (Leicester)
- Daniel Du Preez (Sale)
- Ben Earl (Saracens)
- Fitz Harding (Bristol)
- Jack Willis (Wasps)
- Tom Willis (Wasps)
SCRUM-HALF
- Danny Care (Harlequins)
- Faf De Klerk (Sale)
- Alex Mitchell (Northampton)
FLY HALF
- AJ MacGinty (Sale)
- Joe Simmonds (Exeter)
- Callum Sheedy (Bristol)
CENTRES
- Ashley Beck (Worcester)
- Andre Esterhuizen (Harlequins)
- Rory Hutchison (Northampton)
- Semi Radradra (Bristol)
- Curtis Rona (London Irish)
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Tyrone Green (Harlequins)
- Josh Hodge (Exeter)
- Tom O’Flaherty (Exeter)
- Ollie Hassell-Collins (London Irish)
- Paolo Odogwu (Wasps)
- Oscar Beard (Harlequins)
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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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