Rugby Betting

England v All Blacks Betting

Very hard to see Engerland doing a job on the All Blacks. Poor Martin Johnson essentially has a group of players that are not great and he is telling them to do stuff and just can’t quite understand why they are not able to do it.

Watching him in the stand is quite funny actually. He can’t believe what his team are doing. Johnson is used to playing with World class players and playing on brilliant teams, whether it was for club or country, but now he finds himself landed amongst a bunch of players that only 2 would be guaranteed a place on the Irish team (Wilkinson is a different class to O’Gara and Shaw is a different class to O’Callaghan). So the problem Johnson has is that he is 13 players short of beating Ireland which means that he is probably 15-20 points short of getting close to NZ. (more…)

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Football Betting

North West derbies abound in the Premier League this weekend as sides from either end of the East Lancs Road face up in two mouthwatering televised fixtures.

Manchester City travel west to a horribly out of form Liverpool side looking to arrest their unexpected decline. One win in the last nine games, an exit from the Champions League beckoning and a squad that suddenly looks paper thin have left Rafa Benitez looking vulnerable although the Liverpool boss believes victory on Saturday will kick-start the Reds season. (more…)

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Betting Review

Well, we were right to spot that an X-Factor favourite might bite the dust last Saturday - we just didn’t expect it to be the lovely Lucie. Danyl lives to fight another day…

Three wins, a draw and a defeat on our accumulator wasn’t good enough, and the big guns triumphed in the Shanghai golf. Oh well.
 

1pt Bryan Habana to be first try scorer for South Africa (v France) at 4/1

The Springboks have had another sensational year winning the Tri-Nations at a canter and racking up a huge number of points in the process. Whilst the boot of Morne Steyn might have kicked many of the South African points on the way to Tri-Nations success, flying winger Bryan Habana remains the Springboks best chance from open play. (more…)

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Football Betting

Whilst France might start as favourites against the Republic of Ireland, the Irish are unbeaten in qualifying so far and are terrific value at 11/5 to see off Raymond Domenech’s struggling side and qualify for South Africa.

Elsewhere, I expect Bosnia and Slovenia to make life more difficult for Portugal and Russia than many imagine, and Greece should see off Ukraine. (more…)

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Rugby Betting

As the Southern Hemisphere rugby season draws to a close, the one last commitment of the season for these players is their trip to Europe for nineteen intriguing and mouth-watering international fixtures.

Teams from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji have arrived in Europe to face testing away ties against the Six Nations sides with any number of old scores to settle. The progress made by Ian McGeechan’s Lions side in South Africa in the summer cannot be underestimated and his touring side came close to beating the world’s best side from a standing start. Martin Johnson, Warren Gatland et al will want to continue that progress and record some good performances with only twenty or so international ties remaining between n and the 2011 World Cup. (more…)

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