All Blacks Tests 2020
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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.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@Godder but we don't get to watch it live 😭 but good points Ozzie have the risk (covered by Oz govts) and we still get revenue sharing, I would imagine
Fair point, getting to go to the game might not be much net economic impact but it's certainly an enjoyable experience.
We might still get to see Bledisloe Cup and some NPC live though.
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@Bovidae haven't some Argies tested positive too?
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@taniwharugby Yes, 11 players and the coach (Ledesma).
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@Bovidae lots of stars need to align for TRC to be played yet...in a way, it woulda been nice if the Int season was canned and for all ABs were available for the whole NPC, in L1...reckon we'd have seen crowds we haven't seen for 20 years.
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@Snowy said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
Trump said that it was terrible what was happening here with our latest outbreak, surely that wasn't a lie? People dropping dead everywhere. I'm tripping over bodies in the streets now. We can't possibly host it.
Facetiousness aside - Aus aren't any better off in terms of the disease.
My guess is whichever government will let crowds in gets it.
4 people getting this
fluvirus and locking the country down didn't do NZ's chances of hosting it much good -
@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@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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