2020 Rugby Championship in Oz
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The Springboks’ ability to participate in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship would be finalised early next week, SA Rugby advised on Saturday. The Boks are due to defend the title in Australia between 7 November and 12 December, but several hurdles needed to be cleared if it is to be confirmed. The South African government lifted the ban on international sporting participation a week ago and directions to manage such participation were published on Wednesday evening. A spokesman said that SA Rugby was seeking further clarification from the departments of Arts, Sports and Culture and of Transport as to how those regulations would impact on the planned participation. A final decision was only likely to be finalised early next week once those clarifications had been assessed internally and with SA Rugby’s SANZAAR partners.
Castle Lager Rugby Championship Springbok Update
The Springboks’ ability to participate in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship would be finalised early next week, SA Rugby advised on Saturday.
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This is what I've been banging on about. SA aren't even confirmed as yet. Argentina? What sort of state are they gonna be in?? At least if they don't make it, we can get a BC series over with by the first weekend of November and get the ABs back into the NPC for the tail end.
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@shark said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
This is what I've been banging on about. SA aren't even confirmed as yet. Argentina? What sort of state are they gonna be in?? At least if they don't make it, we can get a BC series over with by the first weekend of November and get the ABs back into the NPC for the tail end.
Argentina are already there, so I could be Tri Nations
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wonder what the player welfare issues would be? maybe temperature at that time of year? less travel than normal and less COVID than in South afirca
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@Kiwiwomble said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
wonder what the player welfare issues would be? maybe temperature at that time of year? less travel than normal and less COVID than in South afirca
Isn't it more that they haven't been playing?
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@Kiwiwomble I'd suggest wellbeing is a lack of preparation for 6 tests in 6 weeks.
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@KiwiMurph @Hooroo maybe, they're playing their super comp now thought so they wont be completed rusty, unless their springboks aren't involved?
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@Crucial they're already here thought...thats would be a big call
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@Kiwiwomble said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
@Crucial they're already here thought...thats would be a big call
Didn't realise that.
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@Kiwiwomble said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
wonder what the player welfare issues would be? maybe temperature at that time of year? less travel than normal and less COVID than in South afirca
They would feel bad losing their #1 world ranking, player mental welfare.
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@Stargazer said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
They’ve just seen how fkn awful the ABs were, what are they worried about?
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@Machpants said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
@Stargazer said in 2020 Rugby Championship in Oz:
They’ve just seen how fkn awful the ABs were, what are they worried about?
That a team ranked sixth in the world will beat the world champions?
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@Machpants Haha, maybe they're afraid of the Argies, who are already in Oz and haven't played any domestic rugby (so are even less prepared than the Boks). If they lose against the ABs or Wallabies, they have their excuses ready, but against the Pumas they haven't any.
