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Mid-Year Internationals - Week 3 (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/rugby

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Decided to tweak it from Summer Internationals bc its been freezing & frosty down here in my part of New Zealand!

Tonga vs Italy
Samoa vs Spain
USA vs Scotland
Canada vs Romania
New Zealand vs England
Australia vs Wales
Japan vs Georgia
Namibia vs Portugal
South Africa vs Ireland
Argentina vs France

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Italy by 12-15
Samoa by 20-25
Scotland by 60-90
Romania by 25-30
New Zealand by 10-15
Australia by 15-20
Georgia by 3-8
Namibia by 5-10
South Africa by 12-20
France by 18-30

I think the best match for fun rugby is probably going to be Australia-Wales again. I'm not a big fan of either Ireland or South Africa's style. But for silly fun Scotland wasting USA could be a good watch too.

I've put NZ-Eng as a close one, but over the last couple of years NZ have had a habit of bouncing back from a close win, or even defeat to put on a clinic. It happened against Argentina & Australia, but England are made of sterner stuff.

With a SH (and very good) referee in Nic Berry i'm hoping for a less stop-start match and a cleaner breakdown/offside line so it could be a pretty exciting match as England's backs are pretty good and Mitchell / Smith work very well off quick ball.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Just checking through the results and my average picking winners was bad this weekend. I'll hide the rest behind spoilers, but I think you could have flipped a coin & done as well as I did. But lets say 1 point for picking the winner & 2 for getting pretty close to the margin, I only got 7/20.

Mentions match results

Got the winner right, but was quite off on the margin for this one. Tonga are a fair bit weaker than Samoa but even though I was expecting Italy to win I didn't think they'd be up by 22 points. (1)
Shocked by the margin here, after last week - but looking through the other results a lot of teams flipped the script from the week before so may Samoa struggled to get up for this game. (1)
Apparently it was pretty hot & humid, and maybe USA are on the rebound after being pretty rubbish in the last cup cycle. (1)
I didn't see this coming at all, I thought Romania would be decent and Canada were very poor last week (0)
Given I was picking a range for the margin I don't think its fair to say that a 7 point win counts as close, but at least the ABs got the job done (1)
At times Australia looked like they were going to romp, but I think the wet weather kept it close (1)
The only one I think its fair to say I was close on, 2 points instead of 3, but Georgia got past Japan. The latter should be pretty unhappy with that, given they're playing at home (2)
I was basically picking the home side here, but maybe at the lower levels its not quite as important. Haven't watched any highlights but the Iberian peninsula seem to be up & coming in the 2nd tier of World Rugby (0)
I thought with the injuries Ireland were carrying into the match that South Africa would get the job done at home; but I guess they picked up early injuries and for whatever reason only scored through penalties (didn't watch the match) which is a bit of a reversion to type after the tries last week. (0)
Given how easily France won last week I picked them to easily win this but not to be. I wonder if all the off field drama disrupted their buildup or if Argentina with time in camp are getting back to the team they can be? (0).

Looks like I missed a couple of matches too:

Chile - Belgium
Paraguay - Hong Kong

I'm going to go with the South American teams in both matches given they're at home and I have a good competition to build experience and combinations now. Lets say Chile by 12, and going on Sco-HK in the U20s, Paraguay by 30.