Topic: [Rugby] Union / League / Super / Sixes Sevens Pro14 / Cups & Tours / Olympics - page 63. (Read 15810 times)

These all-star games are presumably teams formed from picking the best
Indigenous players from both Australia and New Zealand, how many games
are there in this series?

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For screen grabs what I use is a Photoshop Express Android app to crop,
resize and compress screen shots from my phone.

https://www.adobe.com/ie/products/photoshop-express.html

Yes, it was more wishful thinking than actual strategy made me hope England would win over Scotland last weekend.

This week, I'm going for Wales over Scotland (more wishful thinking) France over Ireland ^{(and they'd better win as I just bet one too few zeros when typing the price)} and to round it out England over Italy.

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Rugby League:

The Indigenous Vs Maori round one matches are on tomorrow - should be good games.  I could only get a point spread wager, but it's for the Australian Indigenous team over their Maori counterparts:

Maori All Stars - Indigenous All Stars Point Spread  Indigenous All Stars (-6.5) @ 1.79 Taken Amount: 0.03 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.05 mBTC

(Just the men's game, not the Women's teams who play their match first).

The NRL Pre-season trails kick off in just seven days.

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I need a new screen grab and upload program - any ideas?

Week 2 coming up this weekend, First game of the weekend is Wales V Scotland.

I'm betting on Scotland to win this game, Wales are still missing 6 key players, as was
the case last week and Scotland will be looking to build on a massive win over England
last week. Odds on this game are: Wales 1.91 - 1.85 Scotland.

Second game on Saturday will see Ireland travelling to France, This has the makings
of a cracking match, again France looking to build on their win over Italy last week but
this is their first big test. I'm going with Ireland for this one, they are playing a new
brand of Rugby but they need to get the changeover of personnel  better than last
week, the subs took a bit of time to get up to speed with the game.
Odds on this one are France 1.89 - 1.87 Ireland

 

Game 3 of the weekend was a predictable win for France against the visiting
Italian side.



It took almost 30 minutes for France to get going after Italy took the lead
with a try to bring the score to 3-7. The game overall was riddled with errors
on a windy and very wet evening. Again a frustrating watch for anyone
wanting Italy to show some progress but they kicked the ball too much resulting
in almost all occasions a French visit into the 22 and a score.

The table after the weekend:

Full time in Game 1 of the Six Nations



Fairly impressive Irish win today from an early try and conversion inside the
first 5 minutes of the game. Style of play is quite impressive since head
coach Andy Farrell has taken over, fast, clinical and a break from the heavily
structured style of play in past years.

Wales couldnt seem to get to grips with the fast flowing game from Ireland. Missing
key players and others playing in different positions than normal didnt help their cause.

Bit of trivia for @Timelord2067, Man of the match Mack Hansen the Connacht player
notched up his first game for Ireland today. He's an Aussie! His mum's Irish.

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Game 2 up next, Scotland v England.

England are favourites but there is talk of Scotland really capable of great wins
this year, but we have seen this before and the team hasnt performed.

ML on NitrogenSports is Scotland 2.97 - 1.37 England

I'm going with a win for Scotland, small bet though, I dont normally bet against
the favourite but I going with the positive rumblings from Scotland

They had a good Autumn series of games and their 2 clubs going ok in the
URC, currently in positions 2 and 3.

:::EDIT:::

and Scotland take the win



Great match to watch and could have been a draw match a few times in the
last 8 minutes of play.

A lot of errors on both sides and some poor decision making by England at times
corresponding to some great decision making by Scotland.
Finn Russell had a great game at 10 for Scotland while Luke Cowan-Dickie
made a silly play to get himself yellow carded and Scotland awarded a
penalty try, that changed the game on the 66^th minute.

Yes the player career window is very short, of course there are players who are able
to prolong that if they can stay healthy, competitive and fit.

Regarding COVID, currently there are very few restrictions in Ireland so The Aviva
Stadium in Dublin will be ROCKIN' with a full house for this match, I expect the same
in England, Wales and Scotland but games in France and Italy will most likely have
restrictions.

I hope we will have better tournaments this year, because Covid 19 has really f#$%ed up most of the tournaments. We cannot have Sevens Rugby without some of the strongest competition not participating in the tournament. Why not let these players compete in other countries and then let them isolate for 14 days when they are back home?

Some of the Covid restrictions in these countries borders on insanity .... and it's hurting international Sport and players futures. (Players can only participate for a few years and then they are too old... so they have limited time to build their income for their retirement)

SIX NATIONS competition starts this weekend with the first round of 3 games.







Within the competition there are two other pieces of silverware awarded,
The Calcutta Cup, a competition between Scotland and England and The
Triple Crown awarded to the unbeaten team between England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales.

First match up between Ireland and Wales which is always a tough match up.
The Welsh club/provincial teams only achieve a certain standard on a yearly
basis but when they get together to play for the national team they transform
into a very potent unit and are the defending champions.

The welsh team have suffered a number or key player injuries, Leigh Halfpenny,
George North, Josh Navidi, Ken Owens, Justin Tipiric and Taulupe Faletau. Thats a
massive blow to the team and so Ireland are favourites to win this game.

Ireland 1.14 - 5.25 Wales on NitrogenSports.eu

Ireland this year are looking to build on a powerful performance from the
Autumn Series of games beating Japan, New Zealand and Argentina. Ireland have
no injury worries and so will have a full strength team.

So when we win something or are awarded something it is reported! I havent been
paying any attention to this but from the news Ireland faced Australia in the final
and 17-12. Its hard to bet against Australia it seems, they have medaled in all 4
previous events in this series, 3 golds and a Bronze.

Next leg is in Canada on 30th of April

Ah yes I see that, I believe you to be more the expert in this thread than myself
though, and I would say in term of the Northern Hemisphere game Welsh
is probably more knowledgeable than me, thanks for dragging me along 

I have to say though that I enjoyed the NRL betting last year thanks to yourself!

....and just to prove what an expert I am Leinster WERE BEATEN by Cardiff last night.


https://www.unitedrugby.com/latest/match-report/jarrod-evans-inspires-cardiff-fightback-victory-over-leinster

In the end I wasn't able to get any other bets on for those games, so I'll have to check in the next few days what the prices are for next week-end.

I see we're famous!

I didnt know that was on, it hasnt even been on any  ewd bulletins here.

Just checking the world series rankings > https://www.world.rugby/sevens-series/standings/womens?lang=en

Australia being in the #1 position! Ireland at 6.

Live coverage is available on youtube > https://youtu.be/WqaWOnvlHiw

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In the URC I have 1 bet on this weekend, Cardiff are at home to the visiting Leinster,
My bet is on Leinster who sit in 3rd spot and Cardiff sit in 11th.

Have just found the Women's World Series 7's underway in a few hours, I can only do some points spreads, so here goes:

Australia W - France 7s W Point Spread Australia W (-5.5) @ 1.94 Taken Amount: 0.03 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.06 mBTC

USA 7s Women - canada 7s sevens W Point Spread USA 7s Women (-12.5) @ 1.70 Taken Amount: 0.03 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.05 mBTC

Round 4 and final round of the Heineken Champions Cup was this weekend and
all 4 Irish sides are through to the Round of 16 knockout games. These are set
for April to make way for the up coming Six Nations but this weekend before
the Six Nations round 11 of the United Rugby Championship is being
squeezed in, hopefully all games will be played without further cancellations.

I have my bet on for Ireland to beat Wales in the Six Nations @ 1.14.

Yea I got that, thanks Timelord.

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A bit of news which could have a slight consequence on Englands plans for the Six Nations,
Owen Farrell got injured yesterday training with Saracens and wont play this weekend.

He is a big loss and would be for England too. Scotland will be eyeing his progress
in the coming week for sure.

I havent made any Rugby bets yet on any competition.

Yeh I've got to admit I quite like how streamline NitrogenSports' Sportsbook page is (I don't venture into the other gamaing sections - too distracting )

There are some drop down parts that you can also fold back up.

i.e.  Click on Rugby, then you can close/hide the European Challenge Cup so you're just viewing the Japan-Tournaments section for example.

Handy for scrolling up and down.

Spot on Timelord, I had to change those settings on the PC and all seems to be the
way I want them.

I have just sent some Bitcoin over to my wallet to start a few bets. I see they also
have The Challenge Cup games and the Champions League games listed for
this coming weekend along with the World Series 7's.I sent some Bitcoin to my
existing Sportsbet account to get betting on the AO so I'll use the Nitrogensports for Rugby.

Once you log in - click on Sportsbook, then...  (on my PC at least)

Near the top right you should see


Or something similar... (Have a play with the view and odds settings) - I know I had to change this too...

(Looks like the link worked too BTW! Thanks for that!)

Thanks Timelord, I created an account from your link, I hope I did it right ^{on my phone}.

I have no experience with American Money Line odds, can someone explain an easy way
to work out the odds?

Ireland -714 :: +425 Wales

Obviously Ireland are favourites but I cannot get my head around converting to say, decimal,
would Irelands odds be 1.14 ?

Yes, Covid is certinally playing havock with fixtures (i.e. Tennis  ) so I'm not surprised the opposition site has locked betting.  The France Vs Italy game is open to spread wagers while the other two fixtures appear to have a full spread of betting options.


I had a little dig and found this [LINK] which I've also squeezed into my signature. (click here for the archive version of my post to verify the link hasn't been tampered with) https://ninjastic.space/post/59015801