The latest Goodforthegame newsletter penned by @BrentGraham with best bets for the weekend 6th to 8th October including the fifth round of the RWC and a 12/1 acca with @WorldSportsBet
I took the early part of this week to recover from that Australian loss on Sunday. How a team could lead 24-7 at the break against a Tier 2 team and fail to kick on for a comfortable victory is beyond me, but credit to Portugal they played well.
Last week was my first poor one of the World Cup and having not fancied much initially I find myself getting more and more excited for this week’s action.
THE HANDICAP
Mondo joined me live earlier today and we had a good chat about the 7 games ahead. There was some head nodding but also some differences of opinion and we were also joined by The Understaker at the end of show to run through his plays.
Links to the games in tomorrows newsletter but for now you can click here if you missed the show.
I followed up my Pool B scenario’s video with a Pool B conspiracy video this week where it came out very firmly in the favour of the fact that we are going to get a genuine Test Match in Paris. The bottom line is even if we think teams would consider colluding (which I am pretty sure they wouldn’t) Ireland have nothing much to gain from getting South Africa out of the tournament and lets face it the Scots stabbed them in the World Cup hosting back not long ago.
POINTS TO BE TAKEN IN PARIS
It seems fitting then that the Best Bet comes in the Ireland v Scotland match where the Handicap is -11.5 and the Total Points Line is 45.5. The line I have been waiting for is Total Tries and although there aren’t a lot of bookies out yet, the line has come out at 5.5 and I really like the unders here.
Conspiracies aside Scotland must surely take the points as they need to win the game by 8 or more and stop Ireland getting a bonus point while Ireland simply need to keep on accumulating the points to ensure that they don’t get into danger of missing out of the quarter-finals. I don’t expect this price to last and the line itself may move into 4.5 and I am taking a strike at the unders.
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Click here for all of the weekends World Cup Rugby previews, some of which still need bets added
BET: 7 units under 5.5 tries at 17/20 at Sportingbet*
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COUCHS CORNER
Couch’s preview is up and Boyles have boosted some of his picks – well done to those who caught the 19/1 Kwagga LTS against Tonga and here is hoping Couch can go in again
Click here for his preview and bets
Help feed Couch’s gambling habit by opening a Boylesports Account here
Other Highlights on Goodforthegame:
- It has been a pretty low key build up, but the Cricket World Cup is underway and you can read Chris’s Preview of the Proteas v Sri Lanka game here
- Qatar F1 GP up in WSB Blog
- Chris previews Sundays EPL action
- The Don takes a look at the Proteas v Sri Lanka for BetOlimp
We hit our 6/1 acca last week when Deon Fourie scrambled over at the back of a maul – here is another one which will hopefully keep us interested
This weeks acca (there may be another tomorrow) works out at just over 12/1
0.5 unit at 12/1 at WSB – use this code to populate the bet slip 3404965
France over 19.5 1st half points 17/20
Over 50.5 Wales game 9/10 (taking on The Understaker)
Argentina -5.5 1st half cap at 17/20
Fiji -9.5 1st half caps at 1/1
Have a good one!
BG
@BrentGraham
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