It’s weekend two for the 2020 Six Nations Championship and we’re back with our next round of outlandish predictions for the 2020 PSA Academies Six Nations Predictions Challenge. The demi-surprise (see what I did there?!) of France’s upset of Eddie Jones’ loveable English team in Paris has already started to split the boys from the men, so there are some crunch calls already starting to appear for some of the contestants. On the guest predicter front, Thai RFU Vice-Chairman Nattapol Hemyoo hand’s over the baton to our high-performance sponsor Data Shield’s Cliff Hutchings.
First, up the positions after week 1;
Match Results
Wales 42 – Italy 0
Ireland 19 – Scotland 12
France 24 – England 17
Joint 1st Place – 15 points – Philippe & Johne – the only two pundits to call the right result in Paris BUT neither called the right 7 points winning margin which would have landed them the 5 points bonus points!
Joint 2nd Place – 10 points – Everyone Else! Honorable mentions to Neil for just missing out on the correct winning margin in the IRE v SCO match (predicted 8 points v the actual difference of 7 points) and Graham (me) who was final England try away from landing an unlikely correct score draw prediction in Paris!
REMINDER – the 2020 6 Nations Predictions Challenge rules are simple. Each competitor needs to give us a winner prediction and winning margin (if a draw was predicted, they need to predict the total match points). It is 5 points for a correct result prediction and 5 points for a correct winning margin/total draw match points total.
The ‘expert’ with the most points at the end of the tournament is crowned the 6 Nations Predictions Challenge ‘King of the Picks’.
Saturday 8 February – Ireland v Wales, 1415hrs kick-off
Neil Marchant (Twitter @NeilMarchant2) – Prediction – Ireland by 6 points
Cory Brown (Instagram corybrown6) – Prediction – Wales by 4 points
Philippe Saint-André (Twitter @PSaintAndre) – Prediction – Wales by 2 points
Ian Lewis (Twitter @Lewi_xplore) – Prediction – Ireland by 3 points
Johne Murphy (Twitter @MurphyJohne) – Prediction – Ireland by 6 points
Ben Sinclair (Instagram ben_sinclair18) – Prediction – Wales by 12 points
Graham Ross (Twitter @GrahamRoss76) – Prediction – Ireland by 4 points
Mystery Guest – Cliff Hutchings (Twitter @DataShieldLtd) – Prediction – Ireland by 8 points
Saturday 1 February – Scotland v England, 1645hrs kick-off
Neil Marchant – Prediction – England by 10 points
Cory Brown – Prediction – England by 6 points
Philippe Saint-André – Prediction – England by 6 points
Ian Lewis – Prediction – England by 12 points
Johne Murphy – Prediction – England by 8 points
Ben Sinclair – Prediction – England by 18 points
Graham Ross – Prediction – Scotland by 3 points
Mystery Guest – Cliff Hutchings – Prediction – England by 10 points
Sunday 2 February – France v Italy, 1500hrs kick-off
Neil Marchant – Prediction – France by 30 points
Cory Brown – Prediction – France by 35 points
Philippe Saint-André – Prediction – France by 18 points
Ian Lewis – Prediction – France by 25 points
Johne Murphy – Prediction – France by 24 points
Ben Sinclair – Prediction – France by 30 points
Graham Ross – Prediction – France by 40 points
Mystery Guest – Nattapol Hemyoo – Prediction – France by 10 points
Best of luck to all involved in the 2020 PSA Academies 6 Nations Predictions Challenge and enjoy the rugby wherever you are this weekend.
