Welcome to our latest instalment of our weekly pre-match updates for this year’s United Rugby Championship. This is where we analyse the weekend’s lineups, crunch the stats and see what the bookies are thinking to help you optimise your lineups for peak performance this weekend! By the time you finish this article you should have all the insight you need to score big fantasy points this weekend. Make sure you come back every weekend before finalising your lineups!
The United Rugby Championship is only available on one Fantasy Rugby platform this season, and that’s SuperBru.
Potential mismatches
Here are the projected lines courtesy of Paddy Power…
- Bulls to beat Benetton by 18 points
- Ospreys to beat Dragons by 15 points
- Stormers to beat Connacht by 6 points
- Munster to beat Edinburgh by 5 points
- Scarlets to beat Zebre by 2 points
- Lions to beat Glasgow by 1 point
- Sharks to beat Cardiff by 1 point
- Leinster to beat Ulster by 1 point
Expected to go well on Superbru
*Players who are starting favourably out of position (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)
PROPS
- WP Nel (Edinburgh)
- Brok Harris (Stormers)
- Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh)
- Wilco Louw (Bulls)
HOOKERS
- Ewan Ashman (Edinburgh)
- Ronan Kelleher (Leinster)
- Akker Van Der Merwe (Bulls)
LOCKS
- Ben-Jason Dixon (Stormers)*
- Ruben van Heerden (Stormers)
- Tadhg Beirne (Munster)
- Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh)
- Cormac Izuchukwu (Ulster)*
BACK ROW
- Cameron Hanekom (Bulls)
- Elrigh Louw (Bulls)
- Francke Horn (Lions)
- Max Deegan (Leinster)
- Viliame Mata (Edinburgh)
- Evan Roos (Stormers)
- Gavin Coombes (Munster)
SCRUM-HALF
- Caolin Blade (Connacht)
- Embrose Papier (Bulls)
- George Horne (Glasgow)
FLY HALF
- Ben Healy (Edinburgh)
- Jack Walsh (Ospreys)*
- Johan Goosen (Bulls)
CENTRES
- Keiran Williams (Ospreys)
- Alex Nankivell (Munster)
- Stafford McDowall (Glasgow)
- Suleiman Hartzenberg (Stormers)*
- Matt Currie (Edinburgh)*
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Kurt-Lee Arendse (Bulls)
- Makazole Mapimpi (Sharks)
- Duhan Van Der Merwe (Edinburgh)
- Shane Daly (Munster)
- Hugo Keenan (Leinster)
- Warrick Gelant (Stormers)
- Keelan Giles (Ospreys)
- Josh McKay (Glasgow)
Bargain buys
The following players have been identified as potentially scoring well for their cost in the game and should be considered as good value enablers…
- Cam Winnett (Cardiff) – Outside Back – $3m
- Kyle Rowe (Glasgow) – Outside Back – $3m
- Tommy O’Brien (Leinster) – Outside Back – $3m
- Onisi Ratave (Benetton) – Outside Back – $3m
- Will Addison (Ulster) – Centre – $3m
- Matt Currie (Edinburgh) – Centre – $3m
- Jack Walsh (Ospreys)* – Fly Half – $4m
- Dan Edwards (Ospreys) – Fly Half – $4m
- Cormac Foley (Leinster) – Scrum Half – $2m
- Morne van den Berg (Lions) – Scrum Half – $2m
- Ben Donnell (Cardiff) – Loose Forward – $1m
- Cameron Hanekom (Bulls) – Loose Forward – $2m
Recommended Captain Picks
This week I’d suggest the following as Captain Pick options…
- Kurt-Lee Arendse (Bulls)
- Elrigh Louw (Bulls)
- Keelan Giles (Ospreys)
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