U20 WORLD RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP

OUTRIGHT WINNER-U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019
TAB NZ

New Zealand U20 3.00

England U20 3.50

France U20 5.50

Australia U20 7.00

Ireland U20 9.00

South Africa U2015.00

Argentina U20 19.00

Wales U20 51.00

Georgia U20 101

Italy U20 101

Fiji U20 151

Scotland U20 151

Sure there was another thread where there was 1 post inparticular that gave good insight into all teams, can't find it though.

Starts tomorrow but no prices out from what I can see

Some prices out, no handicaps as of yet.

At 3.15 I would take England.

AUSTRALIA 10/1 with Sunbet (taken e/w to include 33/10 to make final).

Beat All Blacks recently, apparently 11 players from last big u20 tournament and Aus rugby union been really pushing hard on junior front to get the badly needed next generation to come through.

quote "southpaw" AUSTRALIA 10/1 with Sunbet (taken e/w to include 33/10 to make final).

"Beat All Blacks recently, apparently 11 players from last big u20 tournament and Aus rugby union been really pushing hard on junior front to get the badly needed next generation to come through".

Just confirming that Australia are 2019 Oceania Champions.
Not just a win, a convincing win v NZ

Australia 24–0 New Zealand Bond University, Gold Coast

No idea why Baby Blacks are favourites. Only three Super Rugby Players in squad.

NZTAB is no more, its Sportsbet/Paddy Power providing them with odds.

It appears England should be favourites for this tournament.
Squad has been upgraded from U20 Six Nations Team with Premiership Players

They have far more professional than other teams.
Also note easy win over Baby Boks 35-8 in a warm up match.

England men U20s head coach Steve Bates has named his 28-player squad for the 2019 World Rugby U20 Championship in Argentina (4-22 June).

The group includes nine players who have appeared in the tournament before – including several from Gallagher Premiership Rugby – with props Joe Heyes, Marcus Street, lock Joel Kpoku, backrow forwards Josh Basham, Ted Hill, Aaron Hinkley, Tom Willis, fly half Marcus Smith and centre Fraser Dingwall all named in the squad.

Street was part of the England squad who reached the 2017 final in Georgia, losing to New Zealand, while the others played in last year’s final against France.

The cities of Rosario and Santa Fe will play host to 30 matches played over five match days across three venues.

The 12 participating nations have been drawn in three pools of four teams, based on rankings from the 2018 edition.

Pool B sees 2018 runners-up England face Ireland (4 June), Italy (8 June) and Australia (12 June).
The knockout stages are on Monday, 17 June with finals day on Saturday, 22 June.

England, who have won the competition three times, last lifted the Championship in 2016.

The tournament is a proven pathway to the top with a total of 653 players worldwide having graduated from the U20 Championship to play Test rugby since New Zealand won the inaugural title in 2008.

Worcester flanker Hill was England’s latest graduate having played in the tournament last year, then making his senior international debut five months later against Japan.

In total 44 players have graduated through the tournament to play for England.

Steve Bates said: “Choosing 28 players from the 45 we have capped this season has been incredibly tough so it’s a pretty good achievement for these players to be selected for the tournament and they should be incredibly proud of their inclusion.

“The U20 Championship gives them a chance to pit themselves against the best players in the world at their own age group in an international competition before heading into senior rugby, so is an important stage in their development.

“For a lot of these players it will be a unique experience to go to Argentina and play in a tournament of this stature and I know they will be relishing the challenge. They are very lucky to be representing England and will be looking to do their country proud and continue our successful history in the competition.

“We were slightly disappointed with our consistency during the Six Nations and we know we have a lot of work to do, but we have a very good and experienced group of players and if we can keep them fit then we feel we are going to be very competitive in Argentina.”

England squad for World Rugby U20 Championship

Olly Adkins (Gloucester Rugby)
Alfie Barbeary (Wasps)
Josh Basham (Newcastle Falcons)
Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs)
Alex Coles (Northampton Saints)
Tom de Glanville (Bath Rugby)
Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints)
Connor Doherty (Sale Sharks)
Nic Dolly (Sale Sharks)
Ollie Fox (Yorkshire Carnegie)
Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers)
Ted Hill (Worcester Warriors)
Aaron Hinkley (Gloucester Rugby)
Josh Hodge (Newcastle Falcons)
Joel Kpoku (Saracens)
Samson Ma’asi (Northampton Saints)
Sam Maunder (Exeter Chiefs)
Kai Owen (Worcester Warriors)
Alfie Petch (Exeter Chiefs)
Cameron Redpath (Sale Sharks)
Arron Reed (Sale Sharks)
Tom Seabrook (Gloucester Rugby)
Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton Saints)
Marcus Smith (Harlequins)
Marcus Street (Exeter Chiefs)
Rusiate Tuima (Exeter Chiefs)
Manu Vunipola (Saracens)
Tom Willis (Wasps)

Pool stage Outright

Pool A
France 1.91
Argentina 2.5
Wales 8
Fiji 34

Pool B
England 1.45
Australia 4.5
Ireland 7
Italy 51

Pool C
NZ 1.45
SA 3
Scotland 41
Georgia 67

Handicap for round 1
Australia -18.5 v Italy
SA -19.5 v Scotland
Argentina -10.5 v Wales
NZ -32.5 v Georgia
England -9.5 v Ireland
France -25.5 v Fiji

Ireland will be 2-3 key players such as Penny and Byrne - massive blow
France kept 8 players from last year victory (Gros, Carbonel ,Joseph, Leble,,) and 8 Toulon players who became France Champion recently.
England seems to have the strongest squad and are definitely favourite

This is the result from the U20 Oceania tournament (Fiji, Aus and NZ playing)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Oceania_Rugby_Under_20_Championship

Plenty of reading matter on the teams here....

www.world.rugby/u20/news

quote" Brent Graham" Australia -17.5 v Italy at Sunbet

Italy took some hidings in the 6 Nations and Australia look primed for a bit tournament - going to be a tight group potentially so Australia to push for a big win.

With you on this with one Brent, 2.5 out of 5 Aussie to beat the line. Any team that beats NZ by 24 should pi** on Italy. Plus they have released max super 12 players.

Line here on SA v Scotland is -19.5. Seems like way too much. Please advise your view on politically selected baby boks in this game.

Cheers m8

Taking the double with Sunbet:
Australia -17.5
Scotland +19.5

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On a side note 'Threepeat' I don't want to sound like a jackass but can you check that you using the quote functionality of the forum correctly when posting? Its really difficult to comprehend/follow your posts when you reply to a post.

Going to stick with outright selection today and back the Aussies for a good start to tournament -

Australia -17.5 @ 10/11 sunbet

Scotland +13.5 @ 16/10 for me

Matador wrote: Taking the double with Sunbet:
Australia -17.5
Scotland +19.5

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On a side note 'Threepeat' I don't want to sound like a jackass but can you check that you using the quote functionality of the forum correctly when posting? Its really difficult to comprehend/follow your posts when you reply to a post.

Hi Matador, this is what i receive from the thread.

Not sure what you are asking?

With you on the double, but was wanting Brent's blessing.

Cheers & good luck. GO BABY BLACKS!

threepeat wrote:

Matador wrote: Taking the double with Sunbet:
Australia -17.5
Scotland +19.5

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On a side note 'Threepeat' I don't want to sound like a jackass but can you check that you using the quote functionality of the forum correctly when posting? Its really difficult to comprehend/follow your posts when you reply to a post.

Hi Matador, this is what i receive from the thread.

Not sure what you are asking?

With you on the double, but was wanting Brent's blessing.

Cheers & good luck. GO BABY BLACKS!

From the "Action" button click the dropdown arrow and select "Quote".
Place the cursor after the last square bracket and press Enter (if your cursor is not already under the last line).
Then type. It should show the quoted text like here or like any other poster's.

Your "quoting" does look unusual

Scotland +20 @ 1.90 so far
Point lines are coming out and despite being fan of over, found the 59.5 on the SA v Scotland game quite high but last SA friendly game ended in high scoring against Argentina and Wales

Four bets for me, based on six nations results mainly.

South Africa -19.5 at 9/10
Italy +19.5 at 9/10
Wales +10.5 at 17/20
Ireland +9.5 at 0.87/1

Scotland+13.5 at 17/10
Aus-24.5 at 17/10

Can someone explain to me...how Italy are losing 17-0 at half time?

Italy to score a try @ 1.70

Matador wrote: Taking the double with Sunbet:
Australia -17.5
Scotland +19.5

That hurt

Baby Boks with some great running lines and simple breaks, still don't rate them, but something great to watch.

Argentina - 10.5 for me tonight.

Bad beat on the Scotland + there.

Australia's defence is immense.

France v Fiji over 57.5 @ 1.87
That pitch in Rosario seems in a perfect shape compare to the other one and that could be an open game tonight

Over 57.5 @ 0.87/1 France vs Fiji - Fire! Need this after a weekend to forget

bradie82 wrote: France v Fiji over 57.5 @ 1.87
That pitch in Rosario seems in a perfect shape compare to the other one and that could be an open game tonight

Bradie and Overs, where did you get 57.5? I can only see 59.5

Northerner wrote:

bradie82 wrote: France v Fiji over 57.5 @ 1.87
That pitch in Rosario seems in a perfect shape compare to the other one and that could be an open game tonight

Bradie and Overs, where did you get 57.5? I can only see 59.5

Unibet, betclic,....

bradie82 wrote:

Northerner wrote:

bradie82 wrote: France v Fiji over 57.5 @ 1.87
That pitch in Rosario seems in a perfect shape compare to the other one and that could be an open game tonight

Bradie and Overs, where did you get 57.5? I can only see 59.5

Unibet, betclic,....

Thanks. Must be value in first scoring play France try 11/8 with unibet/888?

Every year the same format with 2 games at the same time.... Surely they could arrange the fixtures better in order for the viewers to watch all 6 games per round? They could have 2 match days with 3 games each. Very frustrating

France over 35.5 @ 1.85

Clock not being stopped during TMO calls - absolute shambles

hanrick wrote: Four bets for me, based on six nations results mainly.

South Africa -19.5 at 9/10
Italy +19.5 at 9/10
Wales +10.5 at 17/20
Ireland +9.5 at 0.87/1

3 out of 4 ensures a profit. Can see why Ireland are the 6 nations champs.

Quite a frustrating day with the baby boks try at 81” ( scotland +20 and under 59.5) and 56 points on the French game but some good live betting

Adding few points to Brent’s comment:

Agree with you on Australia, will add that their scrum was quite weak
Argentina has a fantastic full back and a strong third row but sometimes forget to play with the brain and waste many opportunities
Wales has a decent kicker and will fire every single penalties but not impressed by their offensive skills and quite few missed tackles.

Hanrick, Brent
I reckon you watched the Irish game – would you mind telling us how was Flannery at flyhalf as he is normally playing fullback and that was a strange move as Healy was available – thanks in advance.

Next Round with my predictions

RSA (-25.5) v Geo (Racecourse)
Aus (-2.5) v Ire (Inmaculada)
Fra (-12.5) v Wal (Racecourse)
Arg (-19.5) v Fij (Inmaculada)
NZ (-25.5) v Sco (Racecourse)
Eng (-20.5) v Ita (Inmaculada)

Racecourse is a synthetic pitch – was not sure yesterday but it is the case.

thanks for the post game comments as didn't get to watch a thing due to work, so feedback is really useful.

Had a nice result on Aus cap and i see they are into 5/1 for outright so feel pretty good about the 10/1 at moment.

Looking forward to being able to watch and punt more on weekend, really like this tournament.

My day would have been great if the pom's didn't blunder against the irish...
Had a 6 accumulator and a lucky treble, got wales at 2.4 and was more than happy with those odds seeing that I felt the Arg team wasn't so much more superior than the little Dragons...
Arg made costly knock-ons at crucial times in the game which costs them and Wales were kept in the game by a talented boot.

Surprisingly the baby boks should have had an even bigger scoreline if it wasn't for 2 knock-ons in the game with a nearly open try-line, Scotts are worse than I thought.

France got an 1st half scare but in the end proved too good for the boys from beautiful Fiji.

Looking forward to this weekends games.....Onwards an Upwards...

First handicap are out – mine in bracket, Brent’s ones in the middle and bookmaker’s ones on the right

RSA (-25.5) v Geo (Racecourse) -18.5 / -22.5
Aus (-2.5) v Ire (Inmaculada) Aus +7.5 / +1.5
Fra (-12.5) v Wal (Racecourse) -5.5 / -12.5
Arg (-19.5) v Fij (Inmaculada) -12.5 / -15.5
NZ (-25.5) v Sco (Racecourse) -33.5 / 29.5
Eng (-20.5) v Ita (Inmaculada) -22.5 / 26.5

Ireland on the board @ 1.70 seems like the move (I had Australia favorite in order to fire Ireland H but bookies did not do me a favor).
For the rest, will wait for squads and over/under lines

Taken Australia 12/10 for win.

I see everyone jumping on Wales H, just one comment we played our reserve team against Fidji, and this is the full strength team with Carbonel and Cros starting.

Just a reminder that all the matches can be watched live on the website..

www.world.rugby/u20/live

Argentina over 4,5 tries @ 1.72