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[aoluain]

Pro14 Rainbow Cup Final,

nope didnt bother putting a bet on Benetton, nobody gave them
a chance, betting on the Bulls was suspended. I'm sure there were a few who made $'s.


Tough one coming up for The Panthers though! They play The Eels and are favourites for that.


@Timelord2067 Are you winning with the Origin series?

[Timelord2067]

@Timelord2067 Are you winning with the Origin series?

Sadly no, I'm in Queensland and we're down 1 - 0 to the NSW Blues.  This weekend is Game 2 and it's "Do or die" for the Maroons with a win needed to stay in the series.  Qld won last year in the "Unwinable" series (given the Broncos were the "Woodenspooners" and fill half of the Qld team).  I think this year is a little different in that the scores for matches have been <20 - >40 across the board.

If Qld win, it'll be close.

[aoluain]

Oh yes, nothing like a series coming down to the final game, worse still it all ending in 2 games.
Best of luck!


Next up in the Rugby Union is "The Lions Tour". The British and Irish Lions travel to
South Africa for a series of games commencing on the 3rd of July.
https://www.lionstour.com/2021/match-dates/

This weekend sees a warm up match with Japan on Saturday the 26th.
I'm happy to see there are 4 Irish players starting the match.

[aoluain]

And the State of Origin series did come down to just 2 games with New South Wales
taking the title. Queensland didnt perform at all. I find it amazing that  one team can dominate
so much, it wasnt even close in either match.


In the test match between the Lions and Japan on Saturday there were ups and downs.
We lost our captain Alun Wyn Jones who is ruled out of the tour from the shoulder injury. Its
a big loss, he is such a talisman who carries a vast amount of experience. On the upside
The Lions won 28-10.

I wanted to put a bet on on Saturday but The Sportsbet rugby union section of the app wasnt visible?

[Timelord2067]

And the State of Origin series did come down to just 2 games with New South Wales
taking the title. Queensland didnt perform at all. I find it amazing that  one team can dominate
so much, it wasnt even close in either match.

It was the first time in Origin's nearly 35 year history that one team has been scoreless for an entire game. NSW 26 - 0 to Queensland.

I've neglected to mention the Women's Single Origin match was won by Queensland in inclement weather 8 - 6 with a two point penalty minutes from full time edging the Qld Women out from their New South Welsh counterparts.

nitrogensports.eu has the Japanese Union fixtures.  (I won with a bet on Toulouse the other day too).

*edit* I just had a look and their Rugby is not their either.

[aoluain]

And I checked last night and the Rugby Union was listed, Strange.


Anyway Round 16 in the NRL coming up and starting tomorrow.

Im almost liquidated at this stage due to some terrible against the odds losses
in the EURO21 tournament. I've been able to claw some losses back with some
Tennis wins so I'm betting one NRL game at a time, hopefully there's a Storm brewing!

[Timelord2067]

Yes, the Storm clouds are definitely forming for some of the sides in the 2021 NRL Round 16 this week kicking off in a little over five hours time.



My calls for this week follow the same top eight over bottom eight - Storm, Dragons, Panthers (should be a great game with the Eels putting in a solid effort),  Raiders, Cowboys, Sharks.

The Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs are just about paying even money.

I got in aarly with a 6.98 on Qld in the third game of the State of Origin - the pirce has dropped to 4.96 for Qld.


Rugby Union returns to the Nitrogen Sports EU ranks this week with picks on the Six Nations Under twenties.  I'm biased and have picked England, Scotland and Wales to ward off all others. 

I've been able to claw some losses back with some Tennis wins so I'm betting one NRL game at a time, hopefully there's a Storm brewing!

In Tennis all of my pics have come true.  All the Anastasia's (various spellings) Cori Gauff,  Jennifer Brady, the Pliskova's, Petra Kvitova,  Elena Rybakina,  Aryna Sabalenka,  Sloane Stephens - anyone against the Williams sisters - and Ash Barty from here in South East Queensland.         

Pavlyuchenkova/Rybakina in the doubles too.


Other fixtures:

A one off Tim Tszyu in the Boxing (like Father, like son hopefully)

Any games with Boston Red Sox or San Francisco Giants (after a tip off from a semi pro baseball player at work)...

...then there's the UK Soccer teams.

[aoluain]

Well I'm happy enough with Storm's win, another white wash score.

Next up with as you say almost even odds is The Sea Eagles, kinda waste of time
but I dont want to risk betting on close odds.

That game between the Panthers and Eels should be a cracker! will definitely try and
watch extended highlights if I can find them.

[Timelord2067]

Well I'm happy enough with Storm's win, another white wash score.

Next up with as you say almost even odds is The Sea Eagles, kinda waste of time but I dont want to risk betting on close odds.

That game between the Panthers and Eels should be a cracker! will definitely try and watch extended highlights if I can find them.

There are some pretty tight odds for some of these one sided games at the moment.  Even the ones where the teams are closer to eachother on the table, you'd be lucky to get 2:1 odds.



It was something like 30 - Nil at half time last night and didn't improve for the Roosters.

Tonight's back-to-back games I expect the Dragons to outlast the Warriors and the Panthers to have the upper edge over the Eels.


Rugby Union.

I lost out on the under 20's Scotland and Wales, but England lived up to the appropriate hashtag #bingithome #ItsComingHome 

[aoluain]

Ah I'm not following the U20's Six Nations, just dont have the time with
Wimbledon, Euros and dabbling in the NRL!

You called it right for The Panthers by 1 point, well done! close game
and The Eels missing a penalty kick in the last minute, thats tough
and a very imortant moment to go ahead of The Panthers and into 2nd.

I have another bet on The Sharks to beat The Broncos . . . and hopefully
I will have a bit more to put on the Rabbitohs.

[Timelord2067]

...

Yes, I heard most of the second half on the radio and it was definitely a close game.  The ABC commentators predicted the Panther's field goal around 90 seconds earlier when the score was 18 - 18 then nearly fell off their seats when the Eels got a penalty/field goal attempt which they fumbled badly.

[aoluain]

Ha Ha, yes it was a BAD miss that last kick. It was a crucial moment in the game,
Those misses happen, Ireland had it in this years Six Nations, last play and kicking
for a lineout against Wales, score was 21-16 to Wales....and the ball was kicked dead!


Just when we thought it was going to be easy betting against The Broncos, along
comes Kotoni Staggs and things change, they beat The Sharks 26-18.

So im 3 from 4 this weekend in the NRL, not bad.

[Timelord2067]

Ha Ha, yes it was a BAD miss that last kick. It was a crucial moment in the game, it happens though.


Just when we thought it was going to be easy betting against The Broncos, along comes Kotoni Staggs and things change, they beat The Sharks 26-18.

So im 3 from 4 this weekend in the NRL, not bad.[/size]

I was beginning to think I just had a perfect round: and then three of my pics got turned upside down:  Five from eight didn't quite cover the losses in the three that didn't win.  (But it makes for a good story in any case)

Yes, the Storm clouds are definitely forming for some of the sides in the 2021 NRL Round 16 this week kicking off in a little over five hours time.

My calls for this week follow the same top eight over bottom eight - Storm, Dragons, Panthers (should be a great game with the Eels putting in a solid effort),  Raiders, Cowboys, Sharks.

The Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs are just about paying even money.

I got in early with a 6.98 on Qld in the third game of the State of Origin - the price has dropped to 4.96 for Qld.

[Timelord2067]

I wouldn't put any money on the Dragons this round given nearly all of the team have been suspended for one week for attending a party during Greater Sydney's ongoing Covid Lockdown.  Each player has been fined (IIRC) $50,000 AUD and eleven people at the party have now tested positive to covid.

*edit* the media were talking about two breaches in the same news cast.

[aoluain]

Oh, thats a bit reckless, nice fines for all there too.

Talking of COVID, the Lions tour to South Africa is under serious threat.
The game set for this weekend against The Bulls has been
postponed due to an outbreak on the home team.

Just today it is reported that there is a number of Springbok players who
tested positive and a second warm up game against Georgia has also
been cancelled because of COVID positive results.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/british-and-irish-lions-tour-match-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-cases-1152991.html

This bloody COVID seems never ending apart from the U.K where we
will see 60,000 EURO 2021 fans storm into Wembley!

[Timelord2067]

I've corrected my above post due to the media having been talking about two breaches in the same news cast.  I mistook one venue (a luxury motel) as the venue for the Dragon's party, however the player held the party at their own home.  The Dragon's have cancelled their contract as well as the various fines by the NSW police and the NRL's integrity commission.

[aoluain]

and I've corrected my post also, this weekends game in the Lions tour against the Bulls was to be the 3rd.

Today we had the 2nd game against The Sharks again a Lions win. Sharks 7 - 54 British & Irish Lions

Thats the second win of the tour. The Lions had to make changes for the match today
again because of COVID.

British and Irish Lions brush aside tour chaos and romp to big win over Sharks

A match threatened by coronavirus was given the green light less than two hours before kick-off as the Lions were forced to scramble a team together after eight players went into isolation following two positive tests.

[aoluain]

Round 17 NRL picks for myself are:

Rabbitohs
Roosters
Storm
Panthers

Interestingly the team we like to slate The Broncos are favourites against Wests Tigers,
are they looking to make that late in the season winning streak @Timelord2067 mentioned before?

[Timelord2067]

Round 17 NRL picks for myself are:

Rabbitohs
Roosters
Storm
Panthers

Interestingly the team we like to slate The Broncos are favourites against Wests Tigers,
are they looking to make that late in the season winning streak @Timelord2067 mentioned before?

The Rabbitohs are leading 28 - 12 having just scored a try as I took this screen shot:



The Broncos win is more to do with the Dragons players who have been sidelined for a round (for a Covid related infringement) and some of the Wests' Tigers team being in the Qld side for this week's State of Origin game three.


Make that 30 -12 with 20 minutes game time remaining.

[aoluain]

Another big score by the Rabbitohs, easy win final score 46-18


The Lions tour is struggling to continue with all the COVID outbreaks and today sees
the 3rd match in the series, its a rematch against The Cell C Sharks because The Bulls who
were scheduled cannot play due to COVID.

The first big test is scheduled for next week, South Africa v Lions, hopefully that goes ahead.

I'm looking on Sportsbet but cannot see this listed, maybe it will be visible later?