TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019

Joan and Mary

@gt12 :face_with_tears_of_joy: 🤣 1st week and we're not doing to bad :smiling_face_with_heart-eyes:

JK

Pleasing start to the season but truth is that I’m probably best first up and have probably peaked for the season

KiwiPie

3 things ...

  1. There is now a Squads page so you can see which team you're in and who's in your team https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping-squads/

  2. There is a Facebook group where I post score updates and reminders (the same things I post on here) if Facebook is more likely to get your attention. https://www.facebook.com/groups/590271681147113/

  3. Special mention to Unite and Virgil who managed to pick just one result correctly in Week 1. On the bright side, you're only 43 points off the lead.

KiwiPie

Reminder to get your tips in soon - if you want to check whether you have tipped or which tips you made or indeed, what everyone else has tipped .....

The link below is for the whole season - which means that all the tips will accumulate - including those from last season. So just sort column A (Right click on column, Sort Z-A) and the current week's tips will appear.

KiwiPie

Nobody picked the result incorrectly for Highlanders v Reds but not many had the margin correct - only Mikedogz, Unite, DK and Bruce Kenyon. Missing tippers from last week are @Hooroo (who's a noted early tipper usually) and @voodoo (or is it @Voodoo-MKII )

As it is an unusual event, worth noting that DK is currently our overall leader.

BOP Chiefs 8-5 Hurricanes Black
Blues A 6-5 Barbarians
Blues B 8-8 SunJags
South Island 7-5 Hurricanes Gold

KiwiPie

Good morning. Firstly everything is updated on the Fern including the tipping form for the current weekend. https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/ etc. Next week is the start of the TSF Cup, see the Cup page for your matchup. Winners go through plus enough people to get to 32 - so probably a draw is enough or be one of the highest scoring losers.

Last weekend was tough - difficult results to pick and for the less difficult, the margins were tough so mainly low scores all round. Exception was Nevorian who led all scorers with 48 with 6 of 7 results, missing out only by picking the Chiefs to win - as did most people. Mikedogz the only other to get over 40 points. Worst was Waynes World with just 14, picking just the first 2 games correctly.

Blues B are the only team with 2/2, leading the table with a consistent performance and 4 scores over 30, 38 from DK the best and he leads overall by 9 from Plastered Peni. Blues B beat the SunJags with Barbarian the top score of 36 and with a 23 and 22 that had to be counted.

Second are Blues A, managing to pick up the only bonus points for getting 3 or more correct margins than the opposition. TR with 37 the only shining light and with a scores of 20 from Tim and Fiamacho, one of which had to be counted. Luckily for them, the Barbarians were even worse - Rico#1 the only one over 30, Waynes World's low 14 was discarded which meant they had to include Langakali's 19.

3rd are BOP Chiefs with no Hooroo entry but a 41 from Mikedogz and no disasters they had too much for Canes Black who had a few 30+, the best was Paj with 36.

Finally the South Island registered their 1st win, ACT Crusader the best with 38 but their worst was a relatively high 29 and that was too much for Canes Gold who despite having Nevorian's 48, had nothing else over 30 and had to count Crucial's 20.

The top 5 is

DK 92
Plastered Peni 83
Dolamite 81
Mikedogz 80
Barbarian 79

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Hooroo

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

Nobody picked the result incorrectly for Highlanders v Reds but not many had the margin correct - only Mikedogz, Unite, DK and Bruce Kenyon. Missing tippers from last week are @Hooroo (who's a noted early tipper usually) and @voodoo (or is it @Voodoo-MKII )

As it is an unusual event, worth noting that DK is currently our overall leader.

BOP Chiefs 8-5 Hurricanes Black
Blues A 6-5 Barbarians
Blues B 8-8 SunJags
South Island 7-5 Hurricanes Gold

Gutted! I was on a fishing trip and plumb forgot.

JK

@JK said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

Pleasing start to the season but truth is that I’m probably best first up and have probably peaked for the season

And there ya go...backs it up with a 27. Hopefully second up syndrome and a not a sign of things to come!

KiwiPie

@Hooroo said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

Nobody picked the result incorrectly for Highlanders v Reds but not many had the margin correct - only Mikedogz, Unite, DK and Bruce Kenyon. Missing tippers from last week are @Hooroo (who's a noted early tipper usually) and @voodoo (or is it @Voodoo-MKII )

As it is an unusual event, worth noting that DK is currently our overall leader.

BOP Chiefs 8-5 Hurricanes Black
Blues A 6-5 Barbarians
Blues B 8-8 SunJags
South Island 7-5 Hurricanes Gold

Gutted! I was on a fishing trip and plumb forgot.

Luckily your brave team-mates bailed you out to grab the W!

voodoo

@Hooroo said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

Nobody picked the result incorrectly for Highlanders v Reds but not many had the margin correct - only Mikedogz, Unite, DK and Bruce Kenyon. Missing tippers from last week are @Hooroo (who's a noted early tipper usually) and @voodoo (or is it @Voodoo-MKII )

As it is an unusual event, worth noting that DK is currently our overall leader.

BOP Chiefs 8-5 Hurricanes Black
Blues A 6-5 Barbarians
Blues B 8-8 SunJags
South Island 7-5 Hurricanes Gold

Gutted! I was on a fishing trip and plumb forgot.

faaaarkkkk, sorry fellas, was also away for the weekend down the coast, totally forgot!!!

Crucial

I didn't think I could get much worse than the first week.....

ACT Crusader

We’re on the board fellas.

Tim

@KiwiPie Oops, I'd forgotten. Thanks for the tip! 🙂

gt12

Sorry Sunjags, had no wifi today and couldn’t tip!

If I put then in now do I still count for remaining games?

Bones

@gt12 pretty sure they do.

Donsteppa

@gt12 said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

Sorry Sunjags, had no wifi today and couldn’t tip!

If I put then in now do I still count for remaining games?

Yep, still worth tipping late.

gt12

@Donsteppa

Let’s see whether it does or not! Knowing my skill, it might be better not to tip at all!

KiwiPie

@gt12 said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@Donsteppa

Let’s see whether it does or not! Knowing my skill, it might be better not to tip at all!

Yes always worth tipping. No tips and you get 5 less than the lowest score. And that can be pretty low given some of the appalling efforts!

taniwharugby

@gt12 this weekend looking like being a train wreck...

KiwiPie

All the scores are updated now - start at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/ and work through the different pages and you can also tip for next week.

2 forgot to tip for last weekend @Nevorian and @mikedogz who bizarrely had the 2 highest scores the week before.

It was a tough weekend for all. 54% picked the Highlanders, 100% for the Chiefs, 98% and 92% for Lions and Sharks and 47% for the Blues. So if you picked 4 results out of 7 you did pretty well and Laurence was the only tipper to get 5, one of the few who went for the Stormers.

At the other end of the scale, just 1 tipped result for GT12, Broughie and Waynes World. GT12 and Waynes World picked late and so missed out on the Hurricanes points - Broughie picked the Reds to beat the Crusaders.

Plastered Peni the only player to limp past 40 points - and he needed the 5 points from the Hurricanes being top scorers. He also moved into the lead overall as DK crashed and is now 2nd. Laurence & Higgins are 3rd and 4th with Paj and Hurrycanes sharing 5th spot.

In the team comp, Blues B won their 3rd game to retain their 100% record. 30+ from Gunner, Dogmeat & Caprice (and Broughie's week low of 9 could be discarded) were enough to take down South Island where Corkscrew and Smudge's respectable 37 & 34 were dragged down by all the other four players scoring less than 20.

Blues A move into 2nd, easing past the SunJags thanks to Tim with 35 and consistency from the rest - Chimoaus scored 37 for the SunJags but GT12's disaster meant Barbarian's poor 18 had to be counted.

Canes Gold and Black fought out a draw. For Gold, Plastered Peni with 42 should have been enough but Antipodean's 16 had to be included due to Nevorian's absence. Canes Black had 39, 37, 37 from Hydro11, Paj, Hurrycanes but 17 from Bones was discarded and so 19 from Cactus Jack had to be included.

Finally the Barbarians had their first win of the season. Higgins, Langakali, Victor with 30+ and Waynes World's 11 thrown away. BOP Chiefs could only muster Donsteppa's 29 as their best and with Mikedogz away, Hooroo did turn up this week but scored only 12.

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gt12

I’m sorry Sunjags. I’ll tip in time next week, for whatever that is worth 😕

taniwharugby

woohoo, 12th equal best score!

antipodean

Wow, it just gets worse. Might try a dart board next week.

Hooroo

and I was embarrassed that I forgot to tip last week!!! I think I scored higher last week not tipping than I did this week tipping!!

dogmeat

Lions v Jaguares twice in first 4 rounds WTF

Tim

@dogmeat As with Rebels/Brumbies.

SANZA, one of the all time great sporting organisations. How the fuck did Andy Marinos ever get that job.

KiwiPie

@dogmeat said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@Tim Should get @KiwiPie to draw up the fixture list

I did

Second Round
Hooroo 0 v 0 Richie
Waynes World 0 v 0 Sportboy
Caprice 0 v 0 Dolamite
Langakali 0 v 0 Virgil
Chimoaus 0 v 0 Winger
TaniwhaRugby 0 v 0 Dogmeat
Barbarian 0 v 0 Triple T
Tim 0 v 0 Rico#1
Paj 0 v 0 Hurrycanes
Crucial 0 v 0 Corkscrew
Donsteppa 0 v 0 Bruce Kenyon
Victor 0 v 0 KP
Smudge 0 v 0 Unite
Joan and Mary 0 v 0 Higgins
Gunner 0 v 0 Justin77
Plastered Peni 0 v 0 Hydro11

Hooroo

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@dogmeat said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@Tim Should get @KiwiPie to draw up the fixture list

I did

Second Round
Hooroo 0 v 0 Richie
Waynes World 0 v 0 Sportboy
Caprice 0 v 0 Dolamite
Langakali 0 v 0 Virgil
Chimoaus 0 v 0 Winger
TaniwhaRugby 0 v 0 Dogmeat
Barbarian 0 v 0 Triple T
Tim 0 v 0 Rico#1
Paj 0 v 0 Hurrycanes
Crucial 0 v 0 Corkscrew
Donsteppa 0 v 0 Bruce Kenyon
Victor 0 v 0 KP
Smudge 0 v 0 Unite
Joan and Mary 0 v 0 Higgins
Gunner 0 v 0 Justin77
Plastered Peni 0 v 0 Hydro11

What poor soul did I beat in the first round?

dogmeat

Congratulations TR

taniwharugby

@dogmeat thanks Bro...do you want to send me the case of wine today, before the games start?

dogmeat

@taniwharugby sure Blue Nun's your normal tipple right?

taniwharugby

@dogmeat yeah bro, or Miami Wine Coolers!

KiwiPie

@Hooroo Your no show the week before meant you were seeded to play the top scorer from that week. Ironically, he was a no show so you won a titanic contest 12-4. (Waynes World was the other no show and seeded to play Mikedogz who was 2nd - Mikedogz was a no show and WW won 11-4!) FYI Richie always tips!

Hooroo

@KiwiPie said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@Hooroo Your no show the week before meant you were seeded to play the top scorer from that week. Ironically, he was a no show so you won a titanic contest 12-4. (Waynes World was the other no show and seeded to play Mikedogz who was 2nd - Mikedogz was a no show and WW won 11-4!) FYI Richie always tips!

As always, it's better to be lucky than good