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RooinekCaptain18,117 posts
22 Sept 2019, 22:22
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22 Sept 2019, 22:22#1
I'm playing in both the Superbru and the Rugby Magazine Fantasy Rugby competitions.
When I was picking my teams for round 1 I decided I was going to pick an Italian winger and make him my round 1 captain given that they were playing against lowly Namibia. Once the Italian team was announced I checked it out and saw that the wingers were Edoardo Padovini and Mattia Bellini, both names I recognise but neither one a player I know particularly well so I read up a bit about them and decided I'd go for Padovani.
Off I went to the Rugby Mag comp to finalize my team only to find that they have Padovani listed as a fullback rather than a winger . . . so I decided to select Bellini as my Rugby Mag captain and Padovani as my Superbru captain and hedge my bets.
Comes the game and it's a very frustrating game for me to watch because Italy try to win it with pushover scrums and the ball hardly goes out to the wingers, but at least Padovani scores a try and makes a lot of metres in broken play while Bellini does pretty much nothing. 
Okay, I say to myself after the game, at least I'll score well in Superbru even if my Rugby Mag score is crap. To my surprise I see that Bellini scores a respectable 26 points on Rugby Mag while Padovani scores a pathetic 6 points on Superbru. I click on Padovani's score breakdown and find they haven't even given him the points for the try, they've given those points to Bellini.
I pop an email to Superbru telling them that they've mixed up the two Italian wingers and asking them to please correct it and I get an  email back telling me that the official stats at https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/match/italy-namibia#stats state that Bellini scored the try. 
One of two things happened . . . either rugbyworldcup.com got the players mixed up or else the commentators, planetrugby.com, sprts24.co.za and a few other sites mixed them up. I'm still not sure who was the #11 and who was the #14 but I do know it was the #11 who scored the try!
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clevermikeCoach57,555 posts
23 Sept 2019, 02:23
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23 Sept 2019, 02:23#2

Rooinek

According to ESPN the try was scored by Bellini.

I went for Labuschagne and Allan at flyhalf and both were top class.   I also went for some very poor selections like May, Farrell (as captain), Beauden Barrett and Reece - who all were really point disasters.

Strzok hates Labuschagne - but I think he hates Du Toit even more - yet Labuschagne was top class as a loosie and Du Toit was really good enough.    

Lets hope for some improvement in performances next time around.    My problem will be that the next round the Springboks will select the duds and the All Blacks will not play in Round 2, which cause some real problems for me.

              

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