2021 Rugby Championship
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New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has announced Eden Park in Auckland will host back-to-back Bledisloe Cup Tests against Australia on Saturday 7 August and Saturday 14 August.
Confirmation of the venues and dates means the second Bledisloe Cup Series Test, which is now also the opening match of the newly-named Fortinet Rugby Championship, has been moved from Sky Stadium in Wellington, where it was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday 28 August.
SANZAAR has also confirmed the third and final Bledisloe Cup Test will be played at Optus Stadium in Perth where the two teams will meet on Saturday 28 August, a week later than first scheduled.
The revised schedule means New Zealand will now not be hosting the two Fortinet Rugby Championship Tests against Argentina, which had been scheduled for Eden Park in Auckland on 11 September and Sky Stadium in Wellington on 18 September. They will now be played in Australia, with details of the matches to be announced by SANZAAR in due course.
NZR is continuing to plan for two Tests against South Africa, at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on Saturday 25 September, and at Eden Park on Saturday 2 October.
Fans who have purchased tickets for any of the three affected Tests will receive a full refund and should expect to be contacted by the relevant ticket providers Ticketmaster and Ticketek in due course. -
considering where we are at over here, i am pretty annoyed that suddenly rugby teams are just allowed to move around not just between states, but over the Ta$man.
I will keep banging this drum. Locking people in their houses, but allowing pro sports to move around and play is some shitty shit.
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@mariner4life I can't agree
Robertson said allowing the Wallabies in on an exemption was a "very specific set of circumstances" and comparable to New Zealanders being able to return from Queensland until Friday without going into managed isolation. -
@mariner4life said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
considering where we are at over here, i am pretty annoyed that suddenly rugby teams are just allowed to move around not just between states, but over the Ta$man.
I will keep banging this drum. Locking people in their houses, but allowing pro sports to move around and play is some shitty shit.
I'm going to bang the hi hat, they can lock me in my house, but they have to keep the rugby on for me to watch while they're doing it.
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@KiwiMurph don't agree with me, or Robertson?
Aussies getting to NZ i can sort of see. Everyone now getting to WA though?
@Nepia look from that stand point i totally agree, you can't take everything away (thank fuck for horse racing last year).
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@mariner4life said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
don't agree with me, or Robertson?
I don't agree with you.
Everyone now getting to WA though?Going by the WA border website - NZ is considered very low risk - i.e. quarantine is currently not required when travelling from NZ to WA - the issue is getting back to NZ.
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@kiwimurph said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@mariner4life said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
don't agree with me, or Robertson?
I don't agree with you.
Everyone now getting to WA though?Going by the WA border website - NZ is considered very low risk - i.e. quarantine is currently not required when travelling from NZ to WA - the issue is getting back to NZ.
mate, you are never going to convince me. We are looking at this through different lenses.
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@mariner4life said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@kiwimurph said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@mariner4life said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
don't agree with me, or Robertson?
I don't agree with you.
Everyone now getting to WA though?Going by the WA border website - NZ is considered very low risk - i.e. quarantine is currently not required when travelling from NZ to WA - the issue is getting back to NZ.
mate, you are never going to convince me. We are looking at this through different lenses.
Not trying to convince you, but I guess the way in Oz to look at it is these sports are businesses and business travellers appear to have been getting exemptions throughout the pandemic.
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@kiwimurph yup kiwis can get into WA.
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New 2021 RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH SCHEDULE
Sat 14 August: New Zealand v Australia* at Eden Park, Auckland
Sat 14 August: South Africa v Argentina at Nelson Mandela Stadium, Port Elizabeth
Sat 21 August: Argentina v South Africa at Nelson Mandela Stadium, Port Elizabeth
Sat 28 August: Australia v New Zealand* at Optus Stadium, Perth
TBC: New Zealand v Argentina [to be played in Australia]
**South Africa v Australia [scheduled 12 Sept, SCG, Sydney]
**Australia v South Africa [scheduled 18 Sept, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane]
TBC: Argentina v New Zealand [to be played in Australia]
**New Zealand v South Africa [scheduled 25 Sept, Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin]
**Australia v Argentina [scheduled 25 Sept, McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle]
**South Africa v New Zealand [scheduled 2 October, Eden Park, Auckland]
**Argentina v Australia [scheduled 2 October, GIO Stadium, Canberra]
(* Bledisloe Cup matches; ** schedule subject to change due to government/health authority pandemic regulations; TBC - to be confirmed)
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Boks starting lineup against NZ in 2019:
15Willie Le Roux, FB
14Cheslin Kolbe, W
13Lukhanyo Am, C
12Damian de Allende, C
11Makazole Mapimpi, W
10Handre Pollard, FH
9Faf de Klerk, SH
1Steven Kitshoff, P
2Malcolm Marx, H
3Frans Malherbe, P
4Eben Etzebeth, L
5Franco Mostert, L
6Siya Kolisi, FL
7Pieter-Steph du Toit, FL T
8Duane Vermeulen, N8Amazing continuity! I don’t think they’ve gotten any better.
My instinct is that ABs will handle them.
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@nostrildamus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@pakman not sure in the tight forwards we have ascendancy..
By handle, I didn't mean get on top. But starting five of Joe/Codie/Nepo/Sam/Brodie will hold their own.
If they have PSDT and Thor back we may be under pressure a bit in loose forwards, albeit ours are faster.
Their inside backs are less dangerous than Wallabies.
If we can get some fast ball, I'd expect us to score some fives, whereas they'll be looking for threes, with maybe a maul try thrown in.
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@pakman said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@nostrildamus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@pakman not sure in the tight forwards we have ascendancy..
By handle, I didn't mean get on top. But starting five of Joe/Codie/Nepo/Sam/Brodie will hold their own.
If they have PSDT and Thor back we may be under pressure a bit in loose forwards, albeit ours are faster.
Their inside backs are less dangerous than Wallabies.
If we can get some fast ball, I'd expect us to score some fives, whereas they'll be looking for threes, with maybe a maul try thrown in.
Yes could be, and much depends on their 9, I'd say a maul try attempt would be highly likely.
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Springboks squad for the Rugby Championship:
Props: Thomas du Toit, Steven Kitshoff, Vincent Koch, Wilco Louw, Frans Malherbe, Ox Nché, Trevor Nyakane.
Hookers: Joseph Dweba, Johan Grobbelaar, Malcolm Marx, Bongi Mbonambi.
Locks: Lood de Jager, Eben Etzebeth, Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg, Franco Mostert, Marvin Orie, RG Snyman.
Loose forwards: Siya Kolisi, Kwagga Smith, Marco van Staden, Duane Vermeulen, Jasper Wiese, Dan du Preez.
Utility forward: Rynhardt Elstadt.
Scrumhalves: Faf de Klerk, Jaden Henrikse, Herschel Jantjies, Cobus Reinach.
Flyhalves: Elton Jantjies, Handré Pollard, Morné Steyn.
Midfielders: Lukhanyo Am, Damian de Allende, Jesse Kriel.
Outside Backs: Aphelele Fassi, Cheslin Kolbe, Willie le Roux, Makazole Mapimpi, Sbu Nkosi, Rosko Specman.
Utility backs: Damian Willemse, Frans Steyn.
Media release: https://www.springboks.rugby/news-features/articles/2021/08/08/boks-switch-focus-to-rugby-championship/
