All Blacks Tests 2020
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I genuinely don't understand why you couldn't have entire squads in their own bubble. What level of bureaucratic intransigence do you have to suggest a bunch of players who fly over together,live in the same hotel can't train together?
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@antipodean yeah I agree, one big bubble and if there is one case in it, tough shit for your entire team, game over.
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You should’t change your rules for anyone. It’s just stupid. Especially for players coming from South Africa and Argentina. If we lost it because we want to be a little more cautious then good call. Though I suspect Jacinda is correct - we got screwed on the politics and the money. The NZRU is running true to form - they screwed up with the arrogant way they handled the Super rugby discussion as well. They may have been right but what did they expect with a throat cutting ultimatum.
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@Bones they are looking to have crowds, will ge crowd at the Reds game tonight apparently
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@taniwharugby yeah exactly, as I understand it there wouldn't be crowds in NZ? Win win.
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@Bones sorry I thought you meant wouldnt be crowd at any games
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@taniwharugby so I don't understand why anyone would be upset about "losing" it to Aus from an NZR perspective.
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@Bones said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@taniwharugby yeah exactly, as I understand it there wouldn't be crowds in NZ? Win win.
Well if, as is likely the not guaranteed, we are at level 1 by then, NZ would have full stadiums
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@Machpants or Aus go back up levels....
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@Machpants or Aus go back up levels....
NZ government could ask Ta$man for a loan and steal it back.
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That's far enough away that we'd probably be at level 1, and MBIE did some work on options for holding events at level 2 - basically, divide the crowd into separate sections of 100.
NZR can blame the government all they like, but if the Rugby Championship was a source of the reintroduction of Covid-19, and more people died from it, it would be reputationally ruinous for NZR and the government.
Also while the border is closed, the economic impact for NZ is fuck all because people would have spent the money anyway on something else.
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I'm far from convinced we will have a full RC. SA don't start playing until next month so won't want to travel to Aust until early Nov at the earliest after playing their 4-5 games. That's assuming there are no covid issues within SA in the interim. And no team wants to be quarantined at Christmas so the window to play is very tight.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks Tests 2020:
@Godder but we don't get to watch it live 😭 but good points Ozzie have the risk (covered by Oz govts) and we still get revenue sharing, I would imagine
Fair point, getting to go to the game might not be much net economic impact but it's certainly an enjoyable experience.
We might still get to see Bledisloe Cup and some NPC live though.
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@Bovidae haven't some Argies tested positive too?
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@taniwharugby Yes, 11 players and the coach (Ledesma).
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@Bovidae lots of stars need to align for TRC to be played yet...in a way, it woulda been nice if the Int season was canned and for all ABs were available for the whole NPC, in L1...reckon we'd have seen crowds we haven't seen for 20 years.
