Fun With Super Rugby Handicapping – Round 19

Last Week – an embarrassing 1-3; Overall (Since Round 15):  8-8  - in our defense, if you've taken the band off when we suggested, you're still ahead.  Anyhow, gotta have a good finish. As we hit the final week of the regular season, 10 of the 15 teams could have something to play for.  Oddly though, …

Fun With Super Rugby Handicapping – Round 16

Updated 6/1/18 Last Week we were 2-2.  Not great, not awful. My Highlanders also make me look bad last night, so we're playing a bit from behind.  No matter, we press ahead. Round 16 is the last week before the June international break.  With the Springboks playing Wales this week in DC, the South African …

Fun With Super Rugby Handicapping

Updated 5/25 with additional totals.  See below. Gambling is fun.  As such, and further given that I would consider Super Rugby relatively inefficient as a betting market, I have decided to do a little handicapping of my own.  So here's the idea - I'll take a look at the week's matches relative to the betting …

The Tuesday Update – The Calm Before the Storm Edition

It is rare indeed when any rugby union-based literature can start an update with events from the United States (and unless you're based in the US, you probably still would start elsewhere, but I digress), but for this week and next, the opening weekend of Major League can and does take rugby's center stage in …

The Tuesday Update – The International Snapshot Edition

THIS WEEK'S TOP NEWS - Perennial fan favorite and former Highlanders TV legend (seriously, go visit YouTube and watch some Highlanders TV if you haven't already) Fumi Tanaka was part to the greatest rugby falcon since Elton Jantjies decided he hated his forward pack and this blog needed a masthead photo.  Here's a snapshot: For …

The Tuesday Update — The English Have Ruined Everything Again Edition

The proprietors of the Six Nations clearly set up this year's fixture list with an eye toward an England-Ireland final round clash for all of the marbles.  It seemed logical, right?  Clearly those two squads would dispatch the other teams and meet with everything on the line at the end of it all? Ireland held …

Tuesday Update – The Huge Letdown Edition

Hey, didn't you used to be that team that was going to dethrone the All Blacks? As of last Friday, it seemed like England and Ireland were on a collision course toward a final-round Six Nations encounter with the winner taking both the competition and a Grand Slam. That final round fixture between Ireland and …

Super Rugby Playoff Preview!

After five months of rugby action, four teams that deserve to compete for the championship trophy, and four teams that SANZAAR is contractually obligated to put into the Super Rugby playoffs, will take the pitch and determine, once and for all (or until next February), which Southern Hemisphere club stands supreme. Here's a hint - …