Fantasy Rugby Picks – Premiership 2024/25 Round 5

Welcome to your weekly guide for fantasy rugby on Premiership Rugby! Whether you’re a seasoned fantasy rugby veteran or a newcomer looking to make a mark, this week’s insights are built to help you fly up your league. Dive in and get ready to take your fantasy rugby team to the next level!

A reminder that this season we have a new game running for Prem, Dream XV Rugby. Read up on the Guide to the Game here, and have a read of the FRG interview with one of the founders of the game here for more tips.

In addition, Premiership Rugby have their official game on Superbru. You can join the game here, and read up how to play the game in the FRG Review here.

Potential mismatches

Here are the projected lines courtesy of Paddy Power…

  • Exeter to beat Newcastle by 13 points
  • Leicester to beat Gloucester by 11 points
  • Northampton to beat Sale by 6 points
  • Saracens to beat Bristol by 2 points
  • Bath to beat Harlequins by 1 point

Expected to go well on Superbru and Dream XV Rugby

*Players who are starting favourably out of position on Superbru (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)

PROPS

  • Rhys Carre (Saracens)
  • Marco Riccioni (Saracens)
  • Emmanuel Iyogun (Northampton)
  • Scott Sio (Exeter)
  • Beno Obano (Bath)

HOOKERS

  • Gabriel Oghre (Bristol)
  • Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale)
  • Theo Dan (Saracens)

LOCKS

  • Joe Batley (Bristol)
  • Ollie Chessum (Leicester)
  • Maro Itoje (Saracens)
  • Chunya Munga (Northampton)
  • Theo McFarland (Saracens)*

BACK ROW

  • Tom Willis (Saracens)
  • Fitz Harding (Bristol)
  • Will Evans (Harlequins)
  • Guy Pepper (Bath)
  • Alfie Barbeary (Bath)
  • Santiago Grondona (Bristol)
  • Ross Vintcent (Exeter)
  • Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins)

SCRUM-HALF

  • Will Porter (Harlequins)
  • Tomos Williams (Gloucester)
  • Ben Spencer (Bath)

FLY HALF

  • Marcus Smith (Harlequins)
  • Fin Smith (Northampton)
  • Finn Russell (Bath)

CENTRES

  • Ollie Lawrence (Bath)
  • Rory Hutchison (Northampton)
  • Alex Lozowski (Saracens)
  • Max Llewellyn (Gloucester)
  • Rob Du Preez (Sale)*

OUTSIDE BACKS

  • Paul Brown-Bampoe (Exeter)
  • Gabi Ibitoye (Bristol)
  • Josh Hodge (Exeter)
  • Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter)
  • Tobias Elliott (Saracens)
  • Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton)
  • Cadan Murley (Harlequins)

Bargain buys on Superbru

The following players have been identified as potentially scoring well for their cost in the game on Superbru (lowest price brackets in their position) and should be considered as good value enablers…

  • Tobias Elliott (Saracens) – Outside Back – £3m
  • Jack Bates (Bristol) – Outside Back – £3m
  • Austin Emens (Bath) – Outside Back – £3m
  • Ethan Grayson (Newcastle) – Centre* – £2m
  • Joseph Woodward (Leicester) – Centre – £2m
  • Ben Stevenson (Newcastle) – Centre* – £3m
  • Max Llewellyn (Gloucester) – Centre – £3m
  • Sam Maunder (Exeter) – Scrum Half – £2m
  • Richard Capstick (Exeter) – Back Row – £2m
  • Henry Pollock (Northampton) – Back Row – £2m
  • Toby Knight (Saracens) – Back Row – £2m
  • Chunya Munga (Northampton) – Lock – £2m
  • Robbie Smith (Northampton) – Hooker – £2m
  • Jack Singleton (Gloucester) – Hooker – £2m

Recommended Captain Picks

This week I’d suggest the following as Captain Pick options…

  • Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter)
  • Gabi Ibitoye (Bristol)
  • Paul Brown-Bampoe (Exeter)

Come and join the FRG league for 2024/25!

If you back your Fantasy Rugby skills to lead you to Fantasy Premiership glory, then join our public fantasy leagues for the Premiership. We have leagues on both Superbru and Dream XV Rugby.

To join on SuperBru, simply sign up to the game here or searching for the league with code: tipscone.

To join on Dream XV Rugby, go to the Leagues section, click “Join a Private League”, and enter the code cjqxwh.

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