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Super League Betting Preview: Super Saints can turn the screw at the top

18 June 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

George Riley looks at the action ahead of this weekend's Super League clashes...... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: England call-ups shake up the domestic competition

11 June 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

As England travel to France to face a depleted side, George Riley looks at the consequences of these call-ups on the Super League as he goes looking for the betting value.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Hull fans get a glimpse of the future

4 June 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Super League's season of surprises has yielded some terrific value for Betfair punters, and the big sides could again be under threat in round 15. So where will George Riley float his fiver this week?... Read more | Comment now

Challenge Cup Betting: Gateshead face mission impossible

29 May 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Rugby league's most famous cup competition enters quarter-final weekend with holders St Helens already looking massive favourites to retain their crown, writes George Riley.... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Closed shop could benefit youngsters

29 May 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

Ralph Ellis believes that the decision to make the Super League a closed shop for a few years is bad news. But could the upside be that clubs are encouraged to give youth a chance?... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Quins' floater could pay against unsettled Saints

22 May 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

George Riley's record in recent weeks shows that fortune favours the brave. This weekend, as our rugby league expert uses his nous to see through "ridiculous" prices on both sides of the Pennines, will you follow his tips for a... Read more | Comment now

Rugby Union Betting: Thompson's recall rubbishes exile policy

21 May 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

As Steve Thompson is recalled to the England squad for the first time in nearly three years, Ralph Ellis says that MPs could learn a lot from the Brive hooker...... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Smith may regret shake-up

15 May 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

By selecting a squad designed to look ahead to the next World Cup, Ralph Ellis fears that England's rugby league coach might be about to make the same mistakes as Steve McLaren...... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Huddersfield are massively under-priced so get opposing them

14 May 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

George Riley talks us through the best betting from the weekend fixtures as things start to really hot up in the race for the play-offs.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Murrayfield magic

30 April 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

The Super League roadshow heads en masse to Edinburgh for the Magic weekend, a week after an equally magic weekend for followers of this column, writes George Riley.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Outrageous price shows how far Bulls have fallen

24 April 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

St Helens versus Bradford is usually an absolute blockbuster of a fixture but the Bulls' travails this season make Friday night's fixture look an easy call. However, there's still plenty of value to be had this weekend, writes George Riley.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Rhino's to rediscover winning touch at red-hot Giants?

17 April 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

A mini crisis at the Super League champions makes Leeds Rhinos' trip to Huddersfield the tie of the weekend, writes George Riley.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting Preview: Derby days abound on busy Easter weekend

10 April 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

George Riley looks at the forthcoming clashes in domestic rugby league.... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Rhinos out for revenge

3 April 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Super League takes a backseat as the Carnegie Challenge Cup gathers pace this weekend, and the best two teams in the Northern hemisphere go toe to toe at Headingley, writes George Riley.... Read more | Comment now

Betfair Big Interview: Kieron Cunningham

2 April 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

Rugby League's two heavyweights collide when holders St Helens play at Leeds in the first round of the Challenge Cup on Sunday afternoon. Betfair went to meet Saints' veteran skipper Keiron Cunningham to find out more.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting Preview: Winning games takes second place on a weekend of rememberance

27 March 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Leon Walker's tragic death is at the forefront of George Riley's mind as he looks at the forthcoming fixtures.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Saints eye revenge as Rhinos roll into town

20 March 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Last week's first-half performance in beating Wigan was near-perfect from Leeds. The Headingley win kick-started another top weekend for followers of this column, with a further five successful tips out of seven. Can George Riley and the Super League Champions... Read more | Comment now

Rugby Union v Rugby League: Smith could be the latest to join the Super League exodus...

19 March 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

The whispers are growing louder that Leeds Rhinos' ace could be heading to Wasps.... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Champions boosted by Webb's return for key clash

12 March 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

As predicted, Wigan thumped a woefully out of sorts Bradford last weekend and now, as they head across the Pennines to face the Super League champions, George Riley wonders if the Warriors' winning run will continue...... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Noble's Warriors fired up for winning run

5 March 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Last week's column called on punters to "Back Wildcats to Wound Wolves" and we again found an underdog winner in another terrific tipping week as another round of Super League shocks proved this season is going to be an absolute... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Government alter Super League landscape

5 March 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

After foreign worker laws prevented Bradford Bulls from signing a top player, could Catalan Dragons be about to benefit from France's less stringent laws? Ralph Ellis discusses a potential crisis in British rugby league...... Read more | Comment now

Super League Betting: Back Wildcats to wound Wolves

26 February 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

Three defeats in a row marks Wigan's worst start to a season for a quarter of a century. But followers of this column are smiling after George Riley's excellent tipping form continued. Can our man keep up the good work... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Noble on the brink of big bother?

19 February 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

The Celtic Crusaders have shown enough spirit in their opening defeats to give their fans hope that they can survive in Super League so George Riley is off to South Wales to see if they can start turning their new... Read more | Comment now

Rugby League Betting: Leeds to dampen Wakefield fire

12 February 2009 | About GeorgeRiley

George Riley got off to a flier last week when he tipped the Wildcats' big-priced humbling of Wigan. Does he believe there will be any similar upsets this weekend?... Read more | Comment now

Betfair Big Interview : Jace Van Dijk

5 February 2009 | About Ralph Ellis

The new, expanded Engage Super League starts on Friday night - and Betfair went to meet Jace Van Dijk, the Australian scrum half who is captain of new boys Celtic Crusaders, to hear how the Welsh club feel about taking... Read more | Comment now

 

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