Autumn Internationals Predictor

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Rules

Post your predicted scores for the fixtures in this thread. All entries to be posted by Midnight on Friday (UK) for that weekends fixtures. Eligible fixtures are posted on this thread below. You can start posting predictions at anytime during the five weeks but obviously the best chance to win overall is to get your predictions in for every fixture.

Scoring

10 points for the correct result.
10 points for the correct team score (reducing by 1 point per match point variance)
Double points for any match prediction that is 100% correct. This means that a correct scoreline would earn 60 points ( (10 for win +10 for home score +10 for away score)x2)
50 bonus points for getting the correct results for all games that weekend.

Week 3 bonus! Correctly name the first try scorer for the Baa Baas vs NZ XV during week 3 and earn an additional 20 point bonus.

Fixtures

Week 1

Saturday 29th October

Japan vs New Zealand
National Stadium, Tokyo
Kick-off: 6:50am (2:50pm local)

Scotland v Australia
BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 5:30pm

Week 2

Saturday 5th November

Italy v Samoa
Stadio Plebiscito, Padua
Kick-off: 1:00pm (2:00pm local)

Scotland v Fiji
BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 1:00pm

Wales v New Zealand
Principality Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 3:15pm

Ireland v South Africa
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Kick-off: 5:30pm

France v Australia
Stade de France, Paris
Kick-off: 8:00pm (9:00pm local)

Sunday 6th November

England v Argentina
Twickenham Stadium, London
Kick-off: 2:15pm


Week 3

Saturday 12th November

Ireland vs Fiji
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Kick-off: 1:00pm

Italy v Australia
Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence
Kick-off: 1:00pm (2:00pm local)

England v Japan
Twickenham Stadium, London
Kick-off: 3:15pm

Wales v Argentina
Principality Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 5:30pm

France v South Africa
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
Kick-off: 8:00pm (9:00pm local)

Sunday 13th November

Barbarians v All Blacks XV
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
Kick-off: 2:00pm

Scotland v New Zealand
BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 2:15pm

Week 4

Saturday 19th November 2022

Italy v South Africa
Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
Kick-off: 1:00pm (2:00pm local)

Wales v Georgia
Principality Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 1:00pm

Scotland v Argentina
BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 3:15pm

England v New Zealand
Twickenham Stadium, London
Kick-off: 5:30pm

Ireland v Australia
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Kick-off: 8:00pm

Sunday 20th November 2022

France v Japan
Stadium de Toulouse, Toulouse
Kick-off: 1:00pm (2:00pm local)

Week 5

Saturday 26th Novemeber

Wales v Australia
Principality Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 3:15pm

England v South Africa
Twickenham Stadium, London
Kick-off: 5:30pm

One of whom confirms he'd like to manage England one who I want to.

mikey_dragon wrote:

Collapse2005 wrote:

RiscaGame wrote:Ah, Razor has stung us with benching the Welsh players. Damn it

Razor and ROG, joint coaches. Excuse you.

Both future Wales coaches as well, you yeard it yere first.

Could well be

Ireland 36 - 17 Fiji

Italy 22 - 30 Australia

England 35 - 21 Japan

Wales 22 - 20 Argentina

France 23 - 25 South Africa

Scotland 18 - 29 New Zealand

mikey_dragon wrote:

Collapse2005 wrote:

RiscaGame wrote:Ah, Razor has stung us with benching the Welsh players. Damn it

Razor and ROG, joint coaches. Excuse you.

Both future Wales coaches as well, you yeard it yere first.

If only.

I will excuse myself collapse

Ireland 36 - 27 Fiji
Italy 27 - 37 Australia
England 35 - 21 Japan
Wales 25 - 30 Argentina
France 30 - 19 South Africa
Scotland 22 - 35 New Zealand

BaBas 41 - 52 New Zealand XV
First try scorer: Fainga’anuku

Sorry for the wait, it was my birthday yesterday so was out for a curry!

Week 3 bonus try scorer for the Baba’s vs ABXV game went well didn’t it? Bryce Heem was the first try Scorer so no luck there for anyone.

However it was another enthralling weekend of rugby. Probably the toughest round to predict so far with plenty of cards.

No7&1/2 came within only 5 Argentine points too many of a perfect score guessing a Welsh win and the Wales score line perfectly. Tough luck! Predictions were split 50/50 for that match which shows just how competitive it is among the top tier nations at the moment. Riscagame guessed a Scotland 24 – 32 NZ result which was only a single point too many for both teams of getting the first perfect score and 60 points! Really tough luck there. Hazel Sapling was not too far off either.

Only myself and Lowlandbrit predicted a Babas win but some of the score lines were quite close which increased the points tallies. Another tough one to call.

Italy?!!   That stumped everyone. We all expected that the Wallabies would find a way to win, but Capuzzo reminded us all that he is one of Europes finest backline players. Considering teh work that went into getting their structure up to date and the magnificent U20's results of recent past, Italy are showing some really encouraging signs.

Most expected a French victory but the red cards could have impacted that result.

And most expected England to post a high (but not seriously high) score, and no one thought Japan or Fiji would win.

So to the leader boards!...

ahem, oh. So the organiser has suddenly made it the top of both boards it would seem. Awkward.    

Despite a few high scores from others, I made up some ground by guessing a strong losing scoreline for Italy vs Aus and also correctly predicting the Babas match.

So it is all to play for in week 4 as it is pretty tight at the top with only 58 points separating 1st and 5th place.

Get your picks in before Friday and good luck!

Week 3 table

1 Bsando - 126
2 No7&1/2 - 109
3 Risca Game & Lowlandbrit - 103
4 Profitus - 98
5 Hazel Sapling - 97
6 Collapse2005 - 88
7 Oakdene - 60

Overall Leaderboard

1 Bsando - 292
2 No7&1/2 - 277
3 Hazel Sapling - 261
4 Collapse2005 - 252
5 Riscagame - 234
6 Lowlandbrit - 189
7 Profitus - 179
8 Oakdene - 170
9 TigerTattie - 158
10 MikeyDragon - 70
11 Demosthenes - 18

Great review thank you. Bernard Jackman managed a young Capuzzo at Grenoble when he was the coach there, Capuzzo is himself actually from Grenoble despite the Italian name.

Jackman was convinced that he would not make as he was too small for international rugby. Just shows you. In fairness he is very small, according to wikipedia he is only 71kg.

Italy 17 - 40 South Africa
Wales 37 - 19 Georgia
Scotland 32 - 29 Argentina
England 26 - 34 New Zealand
Ireland 43 - 22 Australia
France 50 - 15 Japan

ITA 19 - 28 RSA
WAL 31 - 15 GEO
SCO 16 - 25 ARG
ENG 17 - 14 NZL
IRE 27 - 24 AUS
FRA 30 - 13 JAP

Italy 23 - 35 South Africa
Wales 29 - 13 Georgia
Scotland 24 - 18 Argentina
England 26 - 22 New Zealand
Ireland 35 - 21 Australia
France 42 - 21 Japan

Thanks Bsando. Hope the birthday curry was nice.

Italy 13 - 29 South Africa
Wales 35 - 10 Georgia
Scotland 33 - 27 Argentina
England 17 - 29 New Zealand
Ireland 20 - 25 Australia
France 40 - 15 Japan

Mt reluctance to bet against England is going to be key I feel.

Italy 15 - 34 South Africa
Wales 41 - 12 Georgia
Scotland 24 - 20 Argentina
England 26 - 18 New Zealand
Ireland 37 - 25 Australia
France 50 - 16 Japan

Italy 15 - 30 South Africa
Wales 25 - 3 Georgia
Scotland 23 - 27 Argentina
England 26 - 31 New Zealand
Ireland 44 - 21 Australia
France 55 - 14 Japan

Italy 15 - 33 South Africa
Wales 29 - 13 Georgia
Scotland 26 - 19 Argentina
England 26 - 27 New Zealand
Ireland 25 - 23 Australia
France 41 - 19 Japan

Week 4 Results

How is it the last week already?

Hope you're all well! Week 4 was one for the outlandish predictor. In fact, had some who had fallen behind had a punt on some odd looking scores they might have done well.

Wales losing to Georgia, Scotland putting a record score over the Pumas thanks to multiple cards, the Wallabies losing yet another very close game, a bloody England vs AB's draw!? and a monster win for SA over Italy. Hard lines.

Calculating the scores it was clear we were all in a similar frame of mind. That is apart from Collapse2005 who went for a Wallabies win over Ireland. It was a decent punt that may have worked out considering the final scoreline. The only other against the grain prediction was mine for a pumas win over Scotland. That combined with a few other poor predictions put me bottom for the week on 62 while Profitus and RiscaGame made some consistent predictions to tie on 83.

Collpase2005 had the highest score of the round with 23 points for the France vs Japan fixture  

Lowest score was 0 which went to me for Wales vs Georgia.  

Considering there was only 21 points between first and last shows that we're all in the zone now.  

Looking at the overall leaderboard, there is only 15 points separating 1st and 3rd and 92 points separating 1st and 7th place. A perfect scoreline followed up with another very good guess could snatch top spot if the leaders falter this weekend.

So will Wales lose again? Or will they be looking to bounce back strongly? Can SA beat England on their home turf? Or will England put in an 80 minute display to condemn the boks to yet another defeat against NH opposition?

This week is the finale! Cheers for sticking around to make your predictions each week and I look forward to crowning a winner this weekend  

Week 4 table

1 Profitus & RiscaGame – 83
2 Hazel Sapling - 78
3 Lowlandbrit - 76
4 No7&1/2 – 75
5 Collapse2005 - 71
6 Bsando - 62


Overall Leaderboard

1 Bsando - 354
2 No7&1/2 - 352
3 Hazel Sapling - 339
4 Collapse2005 - 323
5 Riscagame - 317
6 Lowlandbrit - 265
7 Profitus - 262
8 Oakdene - 170
9 TigerTattie - 158
10 MikeyDragon - 70
11 Demosthenes - 18

Oh God, I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but;

Wales 21-18 Australia.

Also, England 27-25 SA

RiscaGame wrote:Oh God, I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but;

Wales 21-18 Australia.

Also, England 27-25 SA

Not that improbable to be fair. SA are fairly beatable away and Australia are on their knees with injuries.

I wouldn't really doubt England can beat SA at home, it was more for the first result. Australia are definitely struggling, but it's still Pivac's Welsh team.

Wales 24 - 18 Australia

England 15 - 25 SA

WAL 17 - 18 AUS
ENG 22 - 15 RSA

WAL 14 - 21 AUS
ENG 13 - 23 RSA

No clue at all for these games.

Damn, missed last week due to being on leave!

Wales 29 - 22 Australia
England 29 - 24 South Africa

Haven’t been part of this, but will have a pop at:

Wales 21 Australia 30

England 22 South Africa 20

Finish off with 2 of the hardest games to call imo. Both Wales and Aus missing a host of players now, England on the verge of a promising back line finally but how will the scrum go? Home advantage.

Wales 23 Australia 18

England 25 South Africa 18

Alright lets see how this goes..

Wales 12 Australia 25

England 32 SA 21

Week 5 and the champion!

Plenty of drama once again! Wales squandered a huge lead and England flopped big time. Only Hazel Sapling and Collapse2005 picked a SA win and surprise surprise, they were first and second for the round. Unfortunately Collapse2005 had fallen back a few too many points to challenge for the top spot overall but HazelSapling? If you recall from last weekend Sapling was sitting only 15 points away from first place. Scoring a tidy 34 points HazelSapling was able to see off the rest of us and win the Autumn Nations Predictor!

Congratulations Hazel Sapling!        

34 points took Sapling 5 points clear overall and rounded off a consistent Autumn of selections. Despite getting the Wales result wrong, Sapling picked Wales by 24 points which was spot on and earned him 10 points. By then getting incredibly close to the final result for England vs South Africa Sapling bagged another 24 points.

Well done to everyone else. Honourable mentions to No7&1/2 who was 11 points short and finished 3rd and Collapse2005 who was only 14 points short of top place and finished 4th. It was super tight and could have gone any way.

Final results below...

Week 5

1 Collapse2005 - 36
2 Hazel Sapling - 34
3 Westisbest - 22
4 Bsando & Lowlandbrit - 14
5 Oakdene - 11
6 No7&1/2 - 10
7 Riscagame – 5

Final Leaderboard

1 Hazel Sapling - 373
2 Bsando - 368
3 No7&1/2 - 362
4 Collapse2005 - 359
5 Riscagame - 322
6 Lowlandbrit - 279
7 Profitus - 262
8 Oakdene - 181
9 TigerTattie - 158
10 MikeyDragon – 70
11 Westisbest - 22
12 Demosthenes - 18

Really wish it was a 2 week como! Well done everyone. Thanks for these bsando.

Hang on do I not get a bonus for all matches correct? 50 point bonus for all matches correct?? That would catapult me to victory. There definitely needs to be a stewards enquiry on those scores

Anyway thank you Bsando for organising. Good craic. Total pot luck for me anyway.

Thank you for organising Bsando, it is much appreciated!