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[aoluain]

The Titans are ahead of the Tigers at the moment. If they win, that'll be two from four.

In Wellington, the Chiefs added further and further in front of the Hurricanes in a less than full stadium to win 30 - 19 (the Hurricanes had points denied to them multiple times - a very one sided match, but was good to watch).

The Chiefs now move into the Grandfinal.

The Chiefs will play the Blues in the final, and thats next weekend already! TBH
I havent been following the Super Rugby League, there is too much happening at
home with the United Rugby, Champions Cup Rugby, Chellenge Cup, Top14 and
English Premiership Rugby.

In said United Rugby Championship the Semi Finals are kicking of in 15 minuted,
I really hope Leinster can win in South Africa Against the Bulls, I have my combo bet
in for the two Irish sides...


UPDATE ...and its FT in South Africa, Bulls 25 - 20 Leinster

[Timelord2067]

I'm watching a replay of the Blues Vs Brumbies semi final - whole sections of the stadium are empty. I'd heard on the news that they couldn't get anyone to buy tickets (not the least of which two NSW teams playing). After seventeen minutes, the blues are ahead, 19 - 6, so it's no surprise they're in the final.

I also caught the Eels being out played by the Roosters in a fairly evenly matched up, but low scoring game. The Roosters led early. Then, after the half time break, the Eels came out thrashing taking the leed only to have the Roosters score two late tries to make it a mathematical impossibility to score two tries and convert with just three and a half minutes to go.

(And we've still got Sunday's matches to play over the next twelve hours).

[aoluain]

Sea Eagles and Panthers won today as expected, panthers up to 2nd, Sea Eagles into 8th.


United Rugby

My hooes and bet for Leinster to meet Munster in the final came to a grinding halt with Leinster
been beaten but I really thought the Munster side of my combo was the safest, they also
lost. So its Bulls v Glasgow Warriors in the final.

The Warriors have it all to do and TBH of all other teams they deserve the championship
title. They have come the closest to winning but never did out of all the teams even back to
when the tournament was called "The Celtic League" played between Irish, Scottish
and Welsh clubs.

[Timelord2067]

Third time lucky sending this:

NRL round 16

Dolphins
Warriors
Roosters
Sea Eagles
Raiders

[aoluain]

Third time lucky sending this:

NRL round 16

Dolphins
Warriors
Roosters
Sea Eagles
Raiders

Thats interesting that you are licking Dolphins over table toppers Storm...


United Rugby Championship __-- The Grand Final --__

Vodacom Bulls v Glasgow Warriors

Bulls have home advantage here and the South African teams have been difficult
enough to beat on home territory. The Warriors have a big job ahead of them.

Odds 1.29 - 3.75
Under 52.5 @ 2.03 could be a possible outcome, I just hope the Bulls dont run away with it
and that the Warriors can give them a nice tight match.

[Timelord2067]

Both the Dolphins and Sea Eagles will be without key Qld SOO players. Not sure about their opponents, but I'm going to pick them anyway.

Last night, both the Women's U19' NSW and their male counterparts beat Qld in their SOO one offs (the men pounded Qld into oblivion).

[aoluain]

This weekend there are some international friendlies starting tomorrow with Japan v England,
followed by South Africa v Wales and the Barbarians v Fiji. England and South Africa I can see are favourites.

Next round is on the 5th and 6th of July, Australia take on Wales and Ireland take on South Africa
in SA, and then again a week later in a different stadium.

In this series of internationals there are a few interesting one which probably wont be easy to
find on tv and probably wont be listed for betting?

Canada v Romania
Samoa v Spain
Chile v Belgium

[Timelord2067]

The Super Rugby Pacific Grand final occured last night - the Blues beat Waikato last night in their final showdown relegating The Chiefs to second for the second year in a row. From all accounts it was a good game but the scores were some thirty points difference.

... Unlike the Titans 66 - 6 win over the Warriors setting new statistics records such as the highest winning margin by Gold Coast.

The Dolphins were level at 18 - 18 against the Storm, but in the end, Melbourne edged ahead to win by six at 30 - 24

The other two games saw the Roosters beat the Bulldogs while the Rabbitohs beat the Sea Eagles (a key win for Souths)

This afternoon, the belugured Tigers stare down Canberra

[aoluain]

And in the final of the United Rugby Championship it was Glasgow warriors who
came out on top! FINALLY

Vodacom Bulls 16 - 21 Glasgow Warriors

TBH its not what I was expecting and not where my money would have gone.
Glasgow's defense was brilliant, only letting in one try while scoring and converting
3 themselves.

They deserve it, they have been knocking on the door since the "Celtic League"

[Timelord2067]

Silly me - I picked the Raiders who were mauled by the Tigers. The crowed as a whole cheated on the Tigers. Then midway through the second half when Canberra rallied, the crowd as one fell silent only to start booking ten minutes later whenever the Raiders looked like scoring.

There were plenty of disallowed tries and one player sent off.

The Tigers now move off the bottom of the rung sending the Eels to the ocean floor.

[Timelord2067]

Tomorrow night is game two of the men's NRL State of Origin Series. (Queensland to win undoubtedly) 😁

The first weekend of July sees three International Rugby Games with New Zealand, Australia and R-South Africa likely to win against England ($ 5.50), Wales ($ 4.80) and Ireland ($ 2.65) - sorry @aoluain 🤯

In the meantime, I'm going with Toulouse against Bordeaux ($ 3.90)