The British and Irish Lions look to continue their sucessful tour of Australia when they take on the Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday and we take a look at the match from a betting angle.
LIONS TO BREECH 50 AGAIN
Posted 04 July 21h04
The handicap seems to have found its resting place at -39.5 Lions.
I am battling to find value in this game but in what looks like being good conditions I am backing the Lions to get over the 50 mark for the 3rd game in a row.
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BET: 4 units Lions over 52.5 at 17/20 at Hollywoodbets
HANDICAP OUT TO -39.5 AFTER TEAM NEWS
Posted 03 July 20h32
The handicap has gone out to -39.5 and while we are seeing plenty of movement it is unlike the Reds game, only in 1 direction.
Waratahs: 15. Lawson Creighton; 14. Andrew Kellaway; 13. Lalakai Foketi, 12. Joey Walton; 11. Darby Lancaster; 10. Jack Bowen, 9. Teddy Wilson; 1. Tom Lambert, 2. Ethan Dobbins, 3. Taniela Tupou; 4. Fergus Lee-Warner, 5. Miles Amatosero; 6. Rob Leota, 7. Charlie Gamble, 8. Hugh Sinclair (captain)
Replacements : 16. Mahe Vailanu, 17. Jack Barrett, 18. Daniel Botha, 19. Matt Philip, 20. Jamie Adamson, 21. Jack Grant, 22. Tane Edmed, 23. Henry O'Donnell
Lions: 15 Hugo Keenan; 14 Mack Hansen, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Sione Tuipulotu, 11 Blair Kinghorn; 10 Fin Smith, 9 Alex Mitchell; 1 Pierre Schoeman, 2 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3 Finlay Bealham, 4 Tadhg Beirne (c), 5 James Ryan, 6 Henry Pollock, 7 Josh van der Flier, 8 Ben Earl.
Replacements: 16 Dan Sheehan, 17 Ellis Genge, 18 Tadhg Furlong, 19 Joe McCarthy, 20 Scott Cummings, 21 Jac Morgan, 22 Ben White, 23 Marcus Smith
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Posted 02 July 22h40
The handicap has moved from Lions -30.5 to -34.5 at Betxchange
The cap for the 1st test on 19 July remains stable at +7.5 Australia
NEW SOUTH WALES WARATAHS V BRITISH & IRISH LIONS – Match Details and Betting
Posted 02 July 20h11
Date: 5 July 2025
Kick-off: 20:00 AEST (UTC+10)
Venue: Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Referee: Paul Williams (New Zealand)
Weather: It looks like another clear night with mid teen temps and humidity in the 60's. Some cloud cover about and no real wind, sourced at TimeandDate.com
BETTING
Waratahs +30.5 v Lions
I didn't see the opening lines and it will be interesting to see if we get as much handicap movement in this game.
Teams and of course a suggested bet to follow during the week.
REDS V B&I LIONS RECAP
Posted 02 July 20h03
There was plenty of handicap movement in this game with the line opening -32.5 before shortening to -27.5 and the last I saw there was some -34.5 Lions on offer.
The Lions bench once again did its job and they pulled clear to win 52-12 with the 36 point handicap enough for all minus punters to collect.
Having beaten the Force 54-7 in their opener the Lions go in search of another big win.
