Not a great set of predictions last week with only a 40% success rate leading to a loss of £2 and reducing overall profits to £33.50.
This weeks predictions include FA Cup football featuring both the fifth round and some fourth round replays, Aviva Premiership Rugby and the second round of rugby league's Superleague.
In the football my predictions are predominantly biased towards the home team as I'm predicting wins for Chelsea against Everton, Birmingham over Sheffield Wednesday and West Ham who host Burnley. The two contradictions to this policy are I'm forecasting a draw between premier league sides Fulham and Bolton at Craven Cottage and for Arsenal, buoyant after their mid-week success against Barcelona to prevail over League One Leyton Orient.
The Aviva Premiership Rugby teams are mainly stripped of their international players which makes my predictions more of a lottery than usual so I'm using form as my main guide by predicting Northampton to win in Bath, Harlequins to defeat Sale at The Stoop and Leicester to triumph in what could be a feisty encounter with Wasps.
My final set of predictions this week relate to rugby's other code and as I got neither prediction correct last week I'm hoping my luck improves this time. I've selected Harlequins to beat the Crusaders and Wigan to win at Bradford.
I did consider some cricket predictions but as the World Cup will still be running when the next football season starts (or at least that's what it will feel like) I thought I'd save those predictions for the future!
In summary this week's forecast is:
FA Cup Football
Chelsea to defeat Everton at 4/7
Birmingham to beat Sheffield Wednesday at 4/6
Fulham and Bolton to draw at 12/5
Arsenal to win at Leyton Orient at 3/10
West Ham to beat Burnley at Evens
Aviva Premiership Rugby
Northampton to win at Bath at 18/11
Harlequins to defeat Sale at 2/9
Leicester to beat Wasps at 2/9
Superleague Rugby League
Harlequins to beat the Crusaders at 11/10
Wigan to win at Bradford Bulls at 1/2
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