We’re back for round 3 of the 2020 Six Nations Championship and the next stab in the dark for the 2020 PSA Academies Six Nations Predictions Challenge. After a decent 15 points haul from Data Shield’s Cliff Hutchings, it’s the turn of PSA Academies supporter and friend Andy Hiatt of Hiatt Financial Ltd. to guess/bluff his way through this week’s games.
First, up the positions after week 2;
Match Results
Ireland 24 – Wales 14
Scotland 6 – England 13
France 35 – Italy 22
Outright 1st Place – 30 points – Johne Murphy – the only team member with a 100% prediction record for the match winners after 2 rounds.
Joint 2nd Place – 25 points – four-way tie (Philippe Saint-Andre, Ian Lewis, Neil Marchant & the Rotating Guests) – Wales’ capitulation in Dublin was expensive for a few, splitting the chasing pack. Also, there were a few near misses on the correct margin prediction in the Scotland v England game.
Joint 3rd Place – 20 points – three-way tie (Ben Sinclair, Cory Brown & Graham Ross) – bit a gap opening up in the wooden spoon stakes, piling on the pressure for a few big calls this weekend!
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 22 February – Italy v Scotland, 1415hrs kick-off
Neil Marchant (Twitter @NeilMarchant2) – Prediction – Scotland by 12 pts
Cory Brown (Instagram corybrown6) – Prediction – Scotland by 20 pts
Philippe Saint-André (Twitter @PSaintAndre) – Prediction – Scotland by 8 pts
Ian Lewis (Twitter @Lewi_xplore) – Prediction – Scotland by 10 pts
Johne Murphy (Twitter @MurphyJohne) – Prediction – Scotland by 17 pts
Ben Sinclair (Instagram ben_sinclair18) – Prediction – Italy by 3 points
Graham Ross (Twitter @GrahamRoss76) – Prediction – Scotland by 5 pts
Mystery Guest – Andy Hiatt – Prediction – Scotland by 15 pts
Saturday 22 February – Wales v France, 1645hrs kick-off
Neil Marchant – Prediction – Wales by 10 points
Cory Brown – Prediction – Wales by 5 points
Philippe Saint-André – Prediction – France by 2] points
Ian Lewis – Prediction – Wales by 9 points
Johne Murphy – Prediction – France by 6 points
Ben Sinclair – Prediction – France by 8 points
Graham Ross – Prediction – Wales by 3 points
Mystery Guest – Cliff Hutchings – Prediction – Wales by 12 points
Sunday 23 February – England v Ireland, 1500hrs kick-off
Neil Marchant – Prediction – England by 10 points
Cory Brown – Prediction – England by 3 points
Philippe Saint-André – Prediction – England by 12 points
Ian Lewis – Prediction – England by 7 points
Johne Murphy – Prediction – Ireland by 4 points
Ben Sinclair – Prediction – England by 10 points
Graham Ross – Prediction – Ireland by 3 points
Mystery Guest – Nattapol Hemyoo – Prediction – England by 12 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.
