All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures)
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Note that the article below refers to an "All Blacks XV", not the All Blacks. A match in October 2020 falls outside the official November test window and Bledisloe 3 is scheduled for Sat 17 October 2020.
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Fiji confirmed to play All Blacks XV in Canada 2020
The Fiji Rugby Union has confirmed the Flying Fijians will play the All Blacks XV in Canada next year. The Test match was approved by the New Zealand Rugby (NZR) earlier this week and is scheduled for October 2020 before their Europe tour in November. FRU chief executive officer, John O'Connor, said he hoped the extra Test matches would boost the performance of the team as they focussed on the next Rugby World Cup in 2023. Fiji will travel to Australia in August next year to play the Wallabies after the Pacific Nations Cup, followed by their match against the All Blacks XV in Canada before the team travels to Europe in November to play against the Wales team and the formidable France Barbarians. FRU are expecting to have a team shortlisted next week before they announce the successful applicant for the Flying Fijians job as the head coach. Current coach John McKee's contract is expected to expire by month-end. -
Another All Blacks test confirmed: against Wales in November.
We now have for 2020 (times are NZT):
June tests:
- Sat 4 July 2020 - 7.35pm - Auckland: New Zealand v Wales
- Sat 11 July 2020 - 7.35pm - Wellington: New Zealand v Wales
- Sat 18 July 2020 - 7.35pm - Dunedin: New Zealand v Scotland
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Rugby Championship:
- Sat 8 Aug 2020 - TBC - Melbourne: Australia v New Zealand (double header)
- Sat 15 Aug 2020 - 7.35pm - Wellington: New Zealand v Australia (double header?)
- Sat 29 Aug 2020 - 7.35pm - Hamilton: New Zealand v Argentina
- Sat 5 Sep 2020 - 7.35pm - Auckland: New Zealand v South Africa
- Sun 20 Sep 2020 - TBC - Mendoza: Argentina v New Zealand
- Sun 27 Sep 2020 - TBC - Nelspruit: South Africa v New Zealand
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Bledisloe Cup 3:
- Sat 17 Oct 2020 - TBC - Brisbane: Australia v New Zealand
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October - outside international window:
- date, time & venue TBC, but in Canada: All Blacks XV v Fiji
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November tests:
- Sun 8 Nov 2020 - 4.00am - London: England v New Zealand
- Sun 15 Nov 2020 - 6.30am - Cardiff: Wales v New Zealand
- Sun 22 Nov 2020 - 6.30am - Edinburgh: Scotland v New Zealand
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Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
I think it's a pretty good programme for a 'first year'.
The banana skin game is vs SA in SA after doing the round the world trip. The November games start tough at Twickers as well.
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@mariner4life On the plus side, six games against the other RWC semi-finalists - though it would be great if it was two against each.
How box-office would England vs ABs home and away be?!!!
ABs vs Australia will have a bit of spice with Foster and Rennie going up against each other.
With probably NZ's weakest Super team beating probably Australia's strongest - on their home turf - there's no pressure Fozzie! (I was going to post that remark in the kneejerk thread!).
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@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
I think it's a pretty good programme for a 'first year'.
The banana skin game is vs SA in SA after doing the round the world trip. The November games start tough at Twickers as well.
There should be bans for the misuse of "banana skin"
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
Except for 2011 RWC. Even though we didn't play them, the fans were good value.
The Scotland Argentina game at the Caketin was a great atmosphere. -
@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
Except for 2011 RWC. Even though we didn't play them, the fans were good value.
The Scotland Argentina game at the Caketin was a great atmosphere.Even if you include that, it's once every ten years. Still terrible.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@Kirwan said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
Wales 3 times, Australia 3 times, the Scots twice. How riveting
It's a shame that it's not a three match series against Wales, like an old style tour. But the teams could make it one with 2 home and 1 away.
Scotland hardly ever play in NZ, so it's good to see them down here. If I've searched correctly, it looks like the last time was 20 years ago!
Except for 2011 RWC. Even though we didn't play them, the fans were good value.
The Scotland Argentina game at the Caketin was a great atmosphere.Even if you include that, it's once every ten years. Still terrible.
Yeah it is. It seems as though the way cycles go it has been Scotland's turn to stay at home (and 20 years is pretty poor). We have previously had 15 and 16 year gaps with Wales and Ireland and a 13 year gap with England. France are the NH team that come down here regularly.
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So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
Play the second XV and it won't be too big a gap.
We could also put our money where our mouth is and do revenue sharing of the gate to show the Englands of the world how to do rugby properly.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
I thought that I read the other day that were playing Fiji before the Wales tests. Maybe I was dreaming?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
That's what the MABs or Juniors are for. There's no benefit to giving them a flogging each time.
That's BS. Keep avoiding them and they'll never improve and nobody will ever want to play for them.
Even putting that aside, its still the right thing to do givem their contribution to our game.
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@Crucial said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
@voodoo said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):
So no matches against our PI neighbours again?
We talk about it being a shame to only have 2 matches v Wales and Scotland hardly ever playing here. Yet we have played those guys 35 and 31 times respectively, against Samoa 7 times, Tonga 6 times, and Fiji just 5 times.
I understand money and scheduling, but I think we should be finding a way to play one of these teams at least once per year.
I thought that I read the other day that were playing Fiji before the Wales tests. Maybe I was dreaming?
Sport: Fiji confirmed to play All Blacks XV in Canada 2020
The Fiji Rugby Union has confirmed the Flying Fijians will play the All Blacks XV in Canada next year.
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