All Blacks Tests 2020
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
Anyone else sick of all the rumours and desparate to hear some official announcements?
There won’t be any. Intra NZ is all you can hope for in 2020.
Anything else will have a red cancelled stamp
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Couldn't beat us at the RWC, too scared to defend their status.
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@sparky said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
NZR could offer the Boks some warm up games against NZ provincial sides.
Or the Wallabies.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
Expect the Pumas to stay away, too. I think about all their first choice players have signed with European clubs, who won't release them, and their second and third stringers haven't played for ages.
Release window has been decided. It doesn't include quarantine. time tho, and I guess the clubs will do everything they can to fuck it up
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I said pages back on this thread. Should organize inbound 3 test tour by Wallabies with 3 midweek provincial matches. Revenue split it. Make it an old-school event/occasion.
Other , TRC, options are pie in sky this year, I'm afraid.
4 test series wont happen, probably, due to covid situation in Oz. Wont be crowds, anyway.
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The November Games between the All Blacks and Scotland & Wales are officially cancelled.
Not though the All Blacks game against England on November 7th. But I can't see the ABs wanting to fly to England to play a single international at Twickenham then fly home and a lengthy quarantine. Total ***king mess.
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With eight nations involved in the November tournament, with South Africa and Argentina badly affected by COVID and not wanting to play in 2020, where does that leave the ABs?
How many AB tests will there be in 2020 and involving how many different sides?
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@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
So there fuck knows, ten games Vs wallabies might be all we're getting! Unless World Rugby pay for some of the island teams, who's players are mostly NH, to play here.
Can't see World Rugby lifting a finger to help the game in NZ or NZR at the moment. They will pass the buck to the NZ government.
Doubt Australia will come to NZ unless games in OZ are scheduled too.
Zero Tests and bankruptcy looking more and more likely.
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What I'd be trying to negotiate now given SA have basically said they don't want to play international rugby in 2020.
A three test series between Oz and NZ in NZ in October.
A eight nation tourament in Oz and NZ (two groups, then playoffs) in November involving NZ, Oz, Argentina, Georgia, Tonga, Samoa, US and Canada . It would need World Rugby help with airfares and NZ government to relax quarantine restrictions a bit in exchange for squads being tested every day.
