Carrying on the report ... everyone tipped except Voodoo who isn't in a team - great performance. Not a single person picked Chiefs as top scorers and Crusaders as lowest. In fact Barbarian picked them exactly the other way round. Mikedogz, Caprice, Phooey, Stag and Crucial picked the Chiefs to win and Corkscrew and Waynes World backed the Waratahs.

BOP Chiefs were the best scoring team, being able to discard my miserable effort so that their lowest counting score was a respectable 32 with Mikedgoz and Unite on 41. They inflicted the first defeat on Blues B, unlucky for them as they has the 2nd best score. Gunner 47 and Caprice 41 were let down by previous leader DK's 16 so that FarNthHayden's 22 had to be included.

Blues A beat Canes Gold with solid scoring led by Virgil's 38, the best for Canes Gold was Nevorian on 37. The SunJags sneaked past the Barbarians with GT12's 40 points the best, Barbarians having to include Triple T's 19 due to Rico's 7.

Finally, South Island had a narrow win over Canes Black. Corkscrew had 42 (next best 26) and that was enough as Cactus Jack was best for Canes Black with an average 31 and Stockcar86's 19 had to be included.

Overall, Gunner has taken the lead along with Corkscrew - they are 15 points clear of DK and Plastered Peni with Dogmeat in 5th. Dolamite has shot up to 6th playing as an individual while also flying into the top 10 is Caprice. Dropping out of the top 10 are Smudge and Barbarian - dropping all the way to 20th.

In the Cup, Caprice won her replay against Joan and Mary by backing the Blues to win and then beat Dogmeat to reach the semis along with Hooroo (who only plays disastrous tippers or no shows) Corkscrew and Virgil.

All updated at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/ including the tipping form for next week.

Not a great week for scoring - Rico#1 outstandingly bad with just 7 points, only picking the Canes result correctly and that was 17+ - now has the worst score of the season to go with the best score of the season. Only Caprice picked 6/7, like most she went for the Crusaders but top scorer was Gunner with 47 including 4 maximums. I hope to do a bigger update later.

This is your 4 hour reminder to tip

https://www.thesilverfern.com/current-tipping-form/

@taniwharugby said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

@KiwiPie j77 told me he missed the first game but put tips in on sat?

They weren't in the spreadsheet sorry

Belated report from the weekend

With very few points on offer, it was important to pick all the 4 remaining correctly for a good score. DK, Gunner and Unite were the only ones to pick 4/4, DK and Unite sharing top score of 35. This took DK into a 10 point lead at the top and Gunner up into 5th.

3 Blues B players in the top 5 and this is reflected in the teams comp where they are still 5 wins from 5 after winning their derby with Blues A. They now have a 5 point lead with Blues A still in 2nd spot despite the defeat.

There were 2 draws, Barbarians sharing the points with Canes Black and Canes Gold drawing with the SunJags. That leaves Barbarians and SunJags still in the top 4 but with not much of a gap to 5th and 6th.

Finally BOP Chiefs had a welcome win thanks to Unite and South Island are marooned at the bottom of the table with just a single victory.

In the Cup, Hooroo continued his charmed run, joined by Waynes World who had a no show from Justin77. Also through are Virgil, Winger, Dogmeat, Corkscrew and Rico#1 with Caprice and Joan and Mary (that's just 2 players) having a sudden death replay this coming weekend to see who plays Dogmeat in the quarter-finals.

Finally Paj is the best result picker so far, 75% of his selections have been correct. Best at margins are DK and Corkscrew. All the info is at https://www.thesilverfern.com/competition-stats/

Better wrap this one up ....

Taylor and Kane 65 partnerships, Average 54.68, 8 x 100s
Wright and Edgar 60 partnerships, Average 31.42, 1 x 100s
Astle and Fleming 58 partnerships, Average 33.63, 2 x 100s
Latham and Williamson 40 partnerships, Average 51.12, 7 x 100s
McCullum and Taylor 39 partnerships, Average 38.71, 3 x 100s

ODIS

Fleming and Astle 118 partnerships, Average 33.16, 9 x 100s
Guptill and Kane 65 partnerships, Average 46.57, 7 x 100s
Guptill and McCullum 64 partnerships, Average 45.61, 8 x 100s
Harris and Parore 63 partnerships, Average 18.93, 0 x 100s
Taylor and Kane 61 partnerships, Average 56.46, 12 x 100s, 26 run outs (#madeupstats)

@booboo said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@KiwiPie said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@Hooroo said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@KiwiPie said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@Rapido said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@Cyclops said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@mariner4life said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

good, been resting on his laurels, what's he done for us lately?

Apart from the runs, the leadership, the holding together of our batting order in tough conditions, and the occasional spin bowling, what's Williamson ever done for us!

Hes been pretty handy in the gully.

He's made a great contribution to non-manicured beards.

Big pressure on Will Young - weak opposition so everyone expects him to hit a 100 and this could be the only chance he gets for a while.

Maybe this test won't go ahead after the Mosque shooting?

Didn't find out about this until I saw this post and thought "a mosque shooting in Bangladesh?" I found out 9/11 on a Notts County forum in the morning following the action of cup game we were playing. There was a guy posting from New York and somehow said "so glad you're OK". Probably says a lot about me and my priorities of staying updated with events ....

Genuine question:

• where do you live and how did you avoid it?

Tauranga and I was head down at work .... didn't mean I didn't know until the moment I just posted! It was a couple of hours after it was news. Shows that everyone else at work was head down as well ....

@Hooroo said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@KiwiPie said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@Rapido said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@Cyclops said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

@mariner4life said in New Zealand V Bangladesh Test III:

good, been resting on his laurels, what's he done for us lately?

Apart from the runs, the leadership, the holding together of our batting order in tough conditions, and the occasional spin bowling, what's Williamson ever done for us!

Hes been pretty handy in the gully.

He's made a great contribution to non-manicured beards.

Big pressure on Will Young - weak opposition so everyone expects him to hit a 100 and this could be the only chance he gets for a while.

Maybe this test won't go ahead after the Mosque shooting?

Didn't find out about this until I saw this post and thought "a mosque shooting in Bangladesh?" I found out 9/11 on a Notts County forum in the morning following the action of cup game we were playing. There was a guy posting from New York and somehow said "so glad you're OK". Probably says a lot about me and my priorities of staying updated with events ....

Good to see Rory finally win one after numerous Day 4 collapses in the past year.

@dK said in TSF Super Rugby Tipping 2019:

Jeebus, I'm considering retirement as no.1 at this point in the season. This cannot be sustained!

The Leicester City of tipping?