Heineken Cup Picks Results From The Six Pack, Our Expert Panel

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – Pundits are often considered experts but in the case of the RWU Six Pack and their Heineken Cup Picks, it might be a stretch.

In case you missed it, let’s refresh your memory/bring you up to speed, the Six Pack has been revised.  The Panel is comprised of West Ghana’s Rugby Rain Man Junoir Blaber, England’s knight of the realm Jamie Loyd,  The English East Midlands Machiavellian Rugger Nick Hall, the infamous Ireland National, Declan Yeats, the Irish Born-Castres residing, unstoppable rugby-writing force, James Harrington, and contrived Kiwi Co-Host, Johnathan Wicklow Barberie.

We have revised the picks spreadsheet with the results of the match-ups and incorrect predictions in red.

Here’s a summary, per RWU Expert:

JWB: 10-2, with the bonus of being 1-0 in the Pick of the Week. He got the Munster game wrong – which the whole staff did as well and the Castres/Northampton game was a tough one to call, so his miss there is understandable. His Pick of the Week was a game no one else picked ,and he was richly rewarded. Suffice to say, the Kiwi’s had a good weekend in 7s…and making picks.

Harrington: 10-2, with the bonus of being 1-0 in the Pick of the Week. The Man living in Castres -whose loyalty/smarts were rewarded – only slipped up when he inexplicably picked Ospreys over Leinster and Munster, in the match that took everyone down. Apparently, he is not only a writing machine – but a picks machine as well.

Blaber: 9-3, with the bonus of being 1-0 in the Pick of the Week. “Junoirdamus” needs to re-check the stars when making his picks. We alreday spoke about how the Northampton game was a close call and Munster being everyone’s faux pas but his belief that Clermont will not crash spectacularly this season needs to be reconsidered.

Loyd: 9-3,  with the shame of being a 0-1 in the Pick of the Week. The English Knight and league fan looked on pace to finish on top but he inexplicably picked a draw in the Exeter v Cardiff game, and also chose Clermont. What really hurt him was the rush of blood to the head moment he had when, against his better judgment, he picked a big Sarries win against Connacht and came up dreadfully short.

Hall: 8-4, with the shame of being a 0-1 in the Pick of the Week. Hall’s main mistake was his hometown loyalty. While Harrington was rewarded for it by Castres, Hall’s Leicester Tigers disappointed him. He even took them as his Pick of the Week. Tsk, tsk… Picking them cost him a chance to be tied for the middle of pack and pushed him closer to the bottom.

Yeats: 7-5, and going 0-1 in the Pick of the Week. Yeats is beyond shame. The man is known world wide as the dirtiest man in rugby, so bringing up the rear in the Six Pack doesn’t bother him. The Six Pack is like a variety of beers and the Yeats brand is alcohol-free but unprocessed… so it is rough.  This week, his Irish loyalty cost him but Yeats will never go against the great Emerald Isle; he would apologize for playing dirty before he did that!

That’s it for now… feel free to comment below, look for and “Like” our Facebook Rugby Wrap Up Page and follow us on Twitter @: RugbyWrapUp, Junoir Blaber, DJ Eberle, Nick Hall, James Harrington, Cody Kuxmann and Declan Yeats, respectively.

And until the next time… stay low and keep pumping those legs.