AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?
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@KiwiMurph The presumption in Wayne Smith's article is QLD doesn't shut the border.
BTW imagine being stuck in Tamworth for two weeks.
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@antipodean If that happens Aus would look at 2 games in Sydney I imagine.
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@Chris said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
I think there is a lot more Covid activity ramping up in Australia that will be the determining factor, and if New Zealand and Australia want to emilate that sort of UK carnage.
No full travel bubble is necessary. Players should do quarantine, but with government help in the form of regular testing and being given a place to quarantine where they can train. The model is the arrangements that were put in place for the West Indies Cricket team to play in England.
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@Machpants said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
Or the Ozzies play them all over here, only they quarantine (their country fucked up, not ours) and we can have full crowds.
If they can share revenue then that could be an option.
I think RA would rather have two games here (one in Bris, one in Syd perhaps) so at least they can pull in some cash.
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@antipodean said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@Bones said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@antipodean yuuuuuck
You DMac fanbois...
Agree. He is making way too many mistakes to be an AB this year.
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@broughie said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@Nepia not from what I have seen but each to their own. Remember he is playing for the lowly Chiefs.
Terrible might have been an overstatement on my part, I think he's been busy but not really effective, but I don't think he's up in the same bracket as Sotutu, MMT and Akira. He was good on Saturday though.
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@barbarian said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@Machpants said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
Or the Ozzies play them all over here, only they quarantine (their country fucked up, not ours) and we can have full crowds.
If they can share revenue then that could be an option.
I think RA would rather have two games here (one in Bris, one in Syd perhaps) so at least they can pull in some cash.
Two full houses in Parramatta and Suncorp would be a big help.
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@Machpants said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
Or the Ozzies play them all over here, only they quarantine (their country fucked up, not ours) and we can have full crowds.
An option to look at, but Rugby Australia and the Auatralian government may want a game over there. Negotiations involve compromise.
The All Blacks are arguably NZ's best brand. That brand will be massively hit by 18 months of inaction.
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@Tim bit of PR work from NZRU HQ never hurts aye...
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@sparky said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@Machpants said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
Or the Ozzies play them all over here, only they quarantine (their country fucked up, not ours) and we can have full crowds.
An option to look at, but Rugby Australia and the Auatralian government may want a game over there. Negotiations involve compromise.
The All Blacks are arguably NZ's best brand. That brand will be massively hit by 18 months of inaction.
Or we see what happens when you make something scarce that people want to see, the value and interest goes up.
See SRA for example, first week a large part of the interest was seeing rugby again and getting out of the house, people stayed because the rugby was good.
Part of what has been causing people to drift away from Rugby was the same games, against the same teams, over and over again.
If the next AB teams oversears was after a two year gap, it would be a sellout, no matter where it was. 100 years building the brand, and sustained success, doesn't disappear in 18months.
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@Kirwan It must be a long time since there were empty seats for an AB test in UK or France or a major game in NZ.
To me, it is a question of ambition. We used to hear the ABs wanted to be the biggest brand in global sport. Manchester United are about to spend £100 million on a single player. The IPL is moving en masse to UAE.
Arranging a couple of All Blacks Test is easy by conparison.
