All Blacks Tests 2020

[Smudge]

@Bones said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

@Smudge said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

If, God forbid, there are no AB tests this year, that'll be the first year of no test rugby for the All Blacks since . . . 1948.

Mate I reckon not even @dogmeat or @ACT-Crusader were alive then.

Maybe @Lee-Grant?

But I digress.

[sparky]

The Sanzar boss thinks this year's Rugby Championship is going ahead in NZ and Aus:

Stuff

[mariner4life]

Pretty sure the Everest is on Oct 17. So if they could organise an AB test that night, I'm all in.

[MajorRage]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

Pretty sure the Everest is on Oct 17. So if they could organise an AB test that night, I'm all in.

Whats the Everest?

Can't see it going ahead this year, given Melbourne's just locked down for 6 weeks again. Can't see Jacinda & co being keen to send /receive sports teams to / from anywhere in Oz for a long time yet.

[KiwiMurph]

@MajorRage Melbourne/Victoria is completely locked down from the rest of Australia. I don't see that being a dealbreaker.

[ACT Crusader]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

@MajorRage Melbourne/Victoria is completely locked down from the rest of Australia. I don't see that being a dealbreaker.

I can see it now, “The show must go on! Tasmania and Stewart Island get their first Bledisloe tests”

[Crucial]

Plans coming out that the TRC will go ahead this year played solely in NZ if a way to get the other teams into the country is agreed with the government

[Tim]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=12348506

[Tim]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/300058434/sanzaar-announces-new-zealand-will-host-the-2020-rugby-championship

[Machpants]

I'm on for that, lotsa games to see

[antipodean]

The trans- Ta$man bubble better be operational then.

[Crucial]

@antipodean said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

The trans- Ta$man bubble better be operational then.

Keep the fuck out of our bubble you disease ridden filth!

[canefan]

@antipodean said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

The trans- Ta$man bubble better be operational then.

Or they quarantine A league or NRL style

[Machpants]

@canefan I think he might be meaning he can get over to watch!

I would hope that the teams get authority to train whilst in Q, Hotel/team bus/training ground bubble for their 2 weeks. Then a week lead upo to their first test.

[canefan]

@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

@canefan I think he might be meaning he can get over to watch!

I would hope that the teams get authority to train whilst in Q, Hotel/team bus/training ground bubble for their 2 weeks. Then a week lead upo to their first test.

The way it's going right now, not going to be able to do it

[Crucial]

@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

@canefan I think he might be meaning he can get over to watch!

I would hope that the teams get authority to train whilst in Q, Hotel/team bus/training ground bubble for their 2 weeks. Then a week lead upo to their first test.

The Aussies can bring grandads ball and chain to ensure that they don’t skip quarantine

[Tim]

Please let this happen. Just playing Australia would be a big disappointment.

[antipodean]

I'll be flying back on a NZ passport.

[Hooroo]

@antipodean said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

I'll be flying back on a NZ passport.

To do two weeks quarantine for a couple of footy matches? Or are you assuming/hoping there will be a Trans Ta$man bubble by then?

I will be surprised if we have a bubble by then, assuming it is in October, right after our Election.

[antipodean]

@Hooroo the latter;

@antipodean said in All Blacks Tests 2020:

The trans- Ta$man bubble better be operational then.