All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures)
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Another All Blacks test confirmed: against Wales in November.
We now have for 2020 (times are NZT):
June tests:
- Sat 4 July 2020 - 7.35pm - Auckland: New Zealand v Wales
- Sat 11 July 2020 - 7.35pm - Wellington: New Zealand v Wales
- Sat 18 July 2020 - 7.35pm - Dunedin: New Zealand v Scotland
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Rugby Championship:
- Sat 8 Aug 2020 - TBC - Melbourne: Australia v New Zealand (double header)
- Sat 15 Aug 2020 - 7.35pm - Wellington: New Zealand v Australia (double header?)
- Sat 29 Aug 2020 - 7.35pm - Hamilton: New Zealand v Argentina
- Sat 5 Sep 2020 - 7.35pm - Auckland: New Zealand v South Africa
- Sun 20 Sep 2020 - TBC - Mendoza: Argentina v New Zealand
- Sun 27 Sep 2020 - TBC - Nelspruit: South Africa v New Zealand
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Bledisloe Cup 3:
- Sat 17 Oct 2020 - TBC - Brisbane: Australia v New Zealand
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October - outside international window:
- date, time & venue TBC, but in Canada: All Blacks XV v Fiji
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November tests:
- Sun 8 Nov 2020 - 4.00am - London: England v New Zealand
- Sun 15 Nov 2020 - 6.30am - Cardiff: Wales v New Zealand
- Sun 22 Nov 2020 - 6.30am - Edinburgh: Scotland v New Zealand
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Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
I think it's a pretty good programme for a 'first year'.
The banana skin game is vs SA in SA after doing the round the world trip. The November games start tough at Twickers as well.
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@mariner4life On the plus side, six games against the other RWC semi-finalists - though it would be great if it was two against each.
How box-office would England vs ABs home and away be?!!!
ABs vs Australia will have a bit of spice with Foster and Rennie going up against each other.
With probably NZ's weakest Super team beating probably Australia's strongest - on their home turf - there's no pressure Fozzie! (I was going to post that remark in the kneejerk thread!).
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@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
I think it's a pretty good programme for a 'first year'.
The banana skin game is vs SA in SA after doing the round the world trip. The November games start tough at Twickers as well.
There should be bans for the misuse of "banana skin"
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
Except for 2011 RWC. Even though we didn't play them, the fans were good value.
The Scotland Argentina game at the Caketin was a great atmosphere. -
@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
Except for 2011 RWC. Even though we didn't play them, the fans were good value.
The Scotland Argentina game at the Caketin was a great atmosphere.Even if you include that, it's once every ten years. Still terrible.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
Except for 2011 RWC. Even though we didn't play them, the fans were good value.
The Scotland Argentina game at the Caketin was a great atmosphere.Even if you include that, it's once every ten years. Still terrible.
Yeah it is. It seems as though the way cycles go it has been Scotland's turn to stay at home (and 20 years is pretty poor). We have previously had 15 and 16 year gaps with Wales and Ireland and a 13 year gap with England. France are the NH team that come down here regularly.
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So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
Play the second XV and it won't be too big a gap.
We could also put our money where our mouth is and do revenue sharing of the gate to show the Englands of the world how to do rugby properly.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
I thought that I read the other day that were playing Fiji before the Wales tests. Maybe I was dreaming?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
That's BS. Keep avoiding them and they'll never improve and nobody will ever want to play for them.
Even putting that aside, its still the right thing to do givem their contribution to our game.
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@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
I thought that I read the other day that were playing Fiji before the Wales tests. Maybe I was dreaming?
Sport: Fiji confirmed to play All Blacks XV in Canada 2020
The Fiji Rugby Union has confirmed the Flying Fijians will play the All Blacks XV in Canada next year.
This?
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@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
Would like to see ABs play an away game in Tonga or Fiji. It would also be great for the ABs to play Georgia or Canada outside of RWC.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
That's BS. Keep avoiding them and they'll never improve and nobody will ever want to play for them.
How do they improve getting flogged? The improvement in their professionalism is being able to participate in New Zealand's competitions without being forced to make themselves available to the premiere team. Or their top professionals are plying their trade in Europe and hence subject to the vagaries of the demands of the clubs.
That's before we discuss the maladministration within their unions.
When we do play them, I'm happy for the gate proceeds to be split.
In the last decade, the All Blacks have played:
- Fiji once, winning by +46
- Samoa twice, points differential of +87
- Tonga three times, points differential of +154
Even putting that aside, its still the right thing to do givem their contribution to our game.
I think the ability to migrate, receive an education, engage in a professional career etc. covers that somewhat. In a crowded calendar, how often are we meant to play them?
