All Blacks Tests 2020
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One person gets Covid in any of the teams and the competition is over. Given the incubation period can vary, their environments and the international travel for SA and Argentina teams the border control rules were reasonable. You can’t be moaning about border controls being the weakness and then open the door. Mark Robinson will be disappointed but he should pull his head in. NZRU has a privileged position and they should play the long game. As with their his ultimatum to ARU, this just speaks to their arrogance.
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@kev said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
One person gets Covid in any of the teams and the competition is over.
How is that possible if they are in a quarantine bubble?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@kev said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
One person gets Covid in any of the teams and the competition is over.
How is that possible if they are in a quarantine bubble?
It'll be over for that team
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@antipodean if a team is in a bubble together then the whole team will be quarantined and unable to play. One team not being able to play means the competition in full form can’t continue.
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@kev said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@antipodean if a team is in a bubble together then the whole team will be quarantined and unable to play. One team not being able to play means the competition in full form can’t continue.
Which isn't negated by the following, nor the Australian solution:
“In New Zealand the teams land, they come into isolation for four days, from days 5-7 they’re in a bubble of 15 which doesn’t allow teams to train in full squads, and from days 8-14, they were set to be in bubble of 25 which is restrictive also and makes it difficult for the way teams want to prepare.
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@Machpants what he should be concerned about is the safety of players. Someone here said that 7 of the Argentina squad have been infected. So the advice from the NZ medical professionals was 3 days individual quarantining, followed by smaller group bubbles ( we currently require 14 days Individually from everyone) was required. So is he asking us to adjust our rules for rugby players? ....Is he going to add to that special treatment for millionaires, foreign students....when families can’t see sick loved ones....Mark Robinson should suck it up like everyone else and say the NZRU does not expect special treatment. The rules were set by the same medical professionals (not the Government) whose advice has given us one the best Covid results in the world. Certainly not perfect but caution has paid huge dividends. I would have loved for the games to be in NZ but following advice from those whose job it is to provide that advice, not special interest groups with vested interests, is the minimum I expect from the Government.
As well as this the NZRU have made a mess of negotiations re Super Rugby - they are and should be under pressure.
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NZRU made a mess of the negotiations. Mark Robinson is a nice guy but looks out of his depth.
But they were dealt a bad hand of the NZ government who should be doing much, much more to support and faciliate professional sport, especially Rugby, in New Zealand. The cancellation of the Blues-Crusaders game (it should have happened behind closed doors) for a handful of cases was a terrible over-reaction when the risk to and from players was almost zero. No wonder sponsors and insurers were so nervous about the Rugby Championship in New Zealand. If New Zealand had a Prime Minister who genuinely loved Rugby and the All Blacks, the Rugby Championship would be taking place this year in NZ.
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Getting the excuses in early
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12364547
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@Machpants I thought the whinging would have stopped when Cheika left. Rennie is sounding more and more Aussie every day.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@Machpants I thought the whinging would have stopped when Cheika left. Rennie is sounding more and more Aussie every day.
Well he knows his career in NZ is dead.
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'Recipe for disaster' - Fears growing among Springbok fans that an undercooked squad for test rugby will tarnish World Cup gloss
The confirmation that the Rugby Championship would go ahead in Australia put the Springboks on a path to overcome perhaps the greatest challenge yet, preparing for test rugby with extremely limited preparation against the All Blacks and Wallabies.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@Bones They’re right, really. It will certainly be NZs to lose, even Ozzie should be more competitive. Arg will be a waste.
It’s only a bunch of friendlies, I doubt they’ll even turn up
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
There is more chance of a 4-match Bledisloe Cup series than a full Rugby Championship taking place.
Awesome, who doesn't want more of that?
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@Bovidae Not ideal obviously, but predictable. Can't rule out the ABs will be paddling the same boat too if reports are senior players are uninterested in being away from home that long.
