Rugby Championship Week1, Currie Cup Week 6 + NPC Week 1, 9-11 August

North Harbour +4.5 ha @1.91 2u

I just read squads this morning and Harbour welcome back a couple of experience players while Hawkes Bay have plenty of injuries for the start of the season. For me Harbour should be favourites at home.

Aus race to 10 @ 2.4

Aus +4.5 HT @ evens

Aus will come out of the blocks firing - Boks to employ slow poison tactics

NZ -8.5 HT @ evens

NZ TT over 34.5

40+ hours of travel to get to NZ for the Argies, and I think Razor and his boys cut loose to open their RC in some style - Air Jordan is BACK!

Also... NPC is back baby!!!

Hi All

First post here but have been following for a good while. Some very tunes in contributors here.

I thought I would post before the stat of my favorite competition the NPC (only betting wise). I always find it a bit tricky on the first week of any competition but have a couple of small bets so far.

Tasman -6 : This line surprised me a little bit , I know Tasman will be missing a couple to international duty and they are away to Manawatu but I don't see anything apparent that the Turbos can offer to stay within a Try. If anyone can see that I am missing something let me know, Manawatu always capable of an upset.

North Harbor +4 : Similar to Pablo's comments I would probably have made this a 50/50 game. It seems that there have been some important departures for Hawkes bay. Again both are relatively small bets.

Other lean is Waikato -4. I would ordinarily be interested in a Southland plus at home but its hard to gauge that one really.

I will have to look at the weather for NZ closer to the time and see how points lines come out also

I take it Mossman might have some opinions on the NPC?

Sharkster wrote:
Tasman -6 : This line surprised me a little bit , I know Tasman will be missing a couple to international duty and they are away to Manawatu but I don't see anything apparent that the Turbos can offer to stay within a Try. If anyone can see that I am missing something let me know, Manawatu always capable of an upset.

Agree with you about Tasman, for me this line should be at least two digit handicap for Tasman. Manawatu squad is nothing special, but if weather allows may be a big score in this match so overs is the bet for me.

Southland caught my eye as well but Otago looks like they have a nice squad this season

Aus vs SA - over 51.5 total pts @ 5/6

Factors for me:
Day game, quite rare, always better for pts vs under lights/dew factor at Brisbane.
Luke Pearce - great overs ref, lets it flow, speeds it up, 54 pts in night game on gold coast last time ref of this fixture.
weather - expected dry/sunny.

Auckland over 26.5 points at 17/20

hanrick wrote: Auckland over 26.5 points at 17/20

Bad bet. Auckland rubbish.

A bit of positive movement on these with Tasman -10 and NH -1 now. Strangely this has meant SFA lately for me but I suppose its what you want.

Does anyone know of a decent site or app for rainfall radars that would cover NZ? I find the usual weather apps to be unreliable.

southpaw wrote: Aus vs SA - over 51.5 total pts @ 5/6

Factors for me:
Day game, quite rare, always better for pts vs under lights/dew factor at Brisbane.
Luke Pearce - great overs ref, lets it flow, speeds it up, 54 pts in night game on gold coast last time ref of this fixture.
weather - expected dry/sunny.

Agree and Following with the overs Southpaw:)

Like my bet builders for some of the big games so throwing the overs in with Arendse anytime scorer and Boks -12.5 @ 7/1.

First big test for Joe Schmidt but that Boks bench looks stacked vs Oz bench so could see scoreboard getting away from Aus.

2 Smaller stakes on:

Snyman try @ 6/1
Marx last try @ 11/1

Happy punting

Brent Graham wrote: Aus over 20.5 at 0.97/1

See RG out for Boks and PSTD into lock

Springboks with the greatest lineout try you will ever see.

Argentina over 16.5 points at 9/10

NZ OVER 4.5 tries @ 5/6 (boyles)

Seen 8/13 elsewhere so looks a bit of value

I swear the bookies must consult fortune tellers or something when setting handicaps...how the NZ halftime handicap did not come in is beyond me.

Argentina +15.5 at 17/20 at halftime. They will run NZ close here.

Brent Graham wrote: Over 59.5 at 0.94/1 Lions v Pumas

If it wasn’t for international rugby games I’d be a rich man. 2 losses this morning to take the gloss off the olympics marathon result.

Blindly following on the overs in joburg.

Pablo wrote: North Harbour +4.5 ha @1.91 2u

I just read squads this morning and Harbour welcome back a couple of experience players while Hawkes Bay have plenty of injuries for the start of the season. For me Harbour should be favourites at home.

What a disgusting joke North Harbour. I know its betting but how can you end 32-41 when your are 32-17 with less than 15 minutes to go ...

Sharkster wrote: Hi All

First post here but have been following for a good while. Some very tunes in contributors here.

I thought I would post before the stat of my favorite competition the NPC (only betting wise). I always find it a bit tricky on the first week of any competition but have a couple of small bets so far.

Tasman -6 : This line surprised me a little bit , I know Tasman will be missing a couple to international duty and they are away to Manawatu but I don't see anything apparent that the Turbos can offer to stay within a Try. If anyone can see that I am missing something let me know, Manawatu always capable of an upset.

North Harbor +4 : Similar to Pablo's comments I would probably have made this a 50/50 game. It seems that there have been some important departures for Hawkes bay. Again both are relatively small bets.

Other lean is Waikato -4. I would ordinarily be interested in a Southland plus at home but its hard to gauge that one really.

I will have to look at the weather for NZ closer to the time and see how points lines come out also

I take it Mossman might have some opinions on the NPC?

1-1 break even-ish . Look forward to the next round

Congratulations Brent for this dream weekend

Brent have you thought of introducing a "tipping" system on site? Like the current "thank you" but in stead a transfer of cash. Perhaps every account holder keeps a wallet on site through where he sends and receives funds.

These Currie Cup plays and the boys on the Olympics thread deserve more than a pat on the back.

shaft wrote: Brent have you thought of introducing a "tipping" system on site? Like the current "thank you" but in stead a transfer of cash. Perhaps every account holder keeps a wallet on site through where he sends and receives funds.

These Currie Cup plays and the boys on the Olympics thread deserve more than a pat on the back.

I think it's brilliant how well some guys did on the Olympics. I like to bet only on those sports/markets that I am comfortable with ie I decide all my own bets. My Olympics was so bad that I eventually gave up and took a run on the Norman 400m pick - which tanked. If we have a transfer of cash system would I get a refund from the kitty for picking the only losing bet on the boards?

The Vann wrote:

shaft wrote: Brent have you thought of introducing a "tipping" system on site? Like the current "thank you" but in stead a transfer of cash. Perhaps every account holder keeps a wallet on site through where he sends and receives funds.

These Currie Cup plays and the boys on the Olympics thread deserve more than a pat on the back.

I think it's brilliant how well some guys did on the Olympics. I like to bet only on those sports/markets that I am comfortable with ie I decide all my own bets. My Olympics was so bad that I eventually gave up and took a run on the Norman 400m pick - which tanked. If we have a transfer of cash system would I get a refund from the kitty for picking the only losing bet on the boards?

Vann, please let us know early this weekend what you are on, so we can back the opposite.... It's crazy how we can go on these losing runs. Hopefully things change for the better soon mate.

Discord too could be an idea - nice and easy interface to put all the forums into .
Just an idea