All Blacks Tests 2020
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@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
Commercial Underwriting is the winning phrase, sadly for NZ
Nope, is all in the fine print. Training from day three (ish) yes, but not as an entire squad...
Fkn stupidAt least this "Robinson also confirmed the staging of the Rugby Championship in Australia would not result in a notable revenue hit on New Zealand. “The difference between it being in New Zealand and Australia wasn’t significant, and it’s not a major for us,” he said. However, it was likely they would have to foot the quarantine bill for the team on its arrival back." so there's revenue sharing
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And I thought we had clowns running jurisdictions in Australia.
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I genuinely don't understand why you couldn't have entire squads in their own bubble. What level of bureaucratic intransigence do you have to suggest a bunch of players who fly over together,live in the same hotel can't train together?
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@antipodean yeah I agree, one big bubble and if there is one case in it, tough shit for your entire team, game over.
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You should’t change your rules for anyone. It’s just stupid. Especially for players coming from South Africa and Argentina. If we lost it because we want to be a little more cautious then good call. Though I suspect Jacinda is correct - we got screwed on the politics and the money. The NZRU is running true to form - they screwed up with the arrogant way they handled the Super rugby discussion as well. They may have been right but what did they expect with a throat cutting ultimatum.
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@Bones they are looking to have crowds, will ge crowd at the Reds game tonight apparently
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@taniwharugby yeah exactly, as I understand it there wouldn't be crowds in NZ? Win win.
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@Bones sorry I thought you meant wouldnt be crowd at any games
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@taniwharugby so I don't understand why anyone would be upset about "losing" it to Aus from an NZR perspective.
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@Bones said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@taniwharugby yeah exactly, as I understand it there wouldn't be crowds in NZ? Win win.
Well if, as is likely the not guaranteed, we are at level 1 by then, NZ would have full stadiums
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@Machpants or Aus go back up levels....
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@Machpants or Aus go back up levels....
NZ government could ask Ta$man for a loan and steal it back.
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That's far enough away that we'd probably be at level 1, and MBIE did some work on options for holding events at level 2 - basically, divide the crowd into separate sections of 100.
NZR can blame the government all they like, but if the Rugby Championship was a source of the reintroduction of Covid-19, and more people died from it, it would be reputationally ruinous for NZR and the government.
Also while the border is closed, the economic impact for NZ is fuck all because people would have spent the money anyway on something else.
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I'm far from convinced we will have a full RC. SA don't start playing until next month so won't want to travel to Aust until early Nov at the earliest after playing their 4-5 games. That's assuming there are no covid issues within SA in the interim. And no team wants to be quarantined at Christmas so the window to play is very tight.
