Rugby - 6 Nations

[Wumpking]

:D 6 Nations kicks off this weekend :D Current IRB ratings for the teams are as follows:

Date	Tournie	Home	Away	Home IRB Rating	Away IRB Rating
06/02/2010	6 Nations	Ireland	Italy	84.60	72.59
06/02/2010	6 Nations	England	Wales	80.72	79.89
07/02/2010	6 Nations	Scotland	France	76.59	82.41

Adjusting these ratings for home advantage, Ireland should win by 33 points, England by 8 points and France by 6 points. Based on current bookies prices / handicaps, bet of the weekend for me will be: 2 points win Ireland (-20) @ 1.90 - various NB - I'm holding off placing this bet until Saturday as I want to make sure weather doesn't impact on this bet as currently heavy rain forecast for Dublin for Saturday

[marseille]

Re: Rugby - 6 Nations hey Wump :cow each year stay a major tournement in Rugby planet but give generally lot of suprise and not many good bet.Think will try some little stake on large part of my bet on this tournement... Latest in fo concerning startingXV of each team for this week 1st round : France : Poitrenaud (Toulouse) ; Rougerie (Clermont), Bastareaud (Paris), Jauzion (Toulouse), Fall (Bayonne) ; (o) Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), (m) Parra (Clermont) ; Dusautoir (Toulouse), Harinordoquy (Biarritz), Ouedraogo (Montpellier) ; Nallet (racing-Metro), Papé (Paris) ; Mas (Perpignan), Servat (Toulouse), Domingo (Clermont). Remplaçants : Szarzewski (Paris), Ducalcon (Castres), Pierre (Clermont), Bonnaire (Clermont), Elissalde (Toulouse), Marty (Perpignan), Clerc (Toulouse). Scotland : Paterson ; T. Evans, M. Evans, Morrison, S. Lamont ; (o) Godman, (m) Cusiter ; Brown, Beattie, Barclay ; Kellock, Hines ; Moray, Ford, Dickinson. Remplaçants : S. Lawson, Jacibsen, Gray, MacDonald, R. Lawson, Growe, Southwell. England : D. Armaitage ; Cueto, Tait, Flutey, Monye ; (o) Wilkinson, (m) Care ; Moody, Easter, Haskell ; Borthwick, Shaw ; WIlson, Hartley, Paine. Remplaçants : Thompson, Cole, Deacon, S. Armitage, Hodgson, Flood, Foden. Wales : Byrne ; T. James, Hook, J. Roberts, S. Williams ; (o) S. Jones, (m) Cooper ; M. Williams, R. Jones, Powell ; Charteris, A.W. Jones ; A.R. Jones, G. Williams, G. Jenkins. Remplaçants : Bennett, P. James, B. Davies, J. Thomas, R. Rees, Bishop, Halfpenny. Ireland : Kearney ; Bowe, O'Driscoll, D'Arcy, Trimble ; (o) O'Gara, (m) O'Leary ; D. Wallace, Heaslip, MacLaughlin ; O'Connell, O'Callaghan ; Hayes, Flannery, Healy. Remplaçants : R. Best, Court, Cullen, Reddan, P.Wallace, Earls. see 2/3 little value but like you will wait last informtation before risk to take a bet here. Notice that odd on Scotland fall since France coach give his starting XV....:eek