2020 Māori All Blacks
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@ACT-Crusader All I could find was this year's preseason game against the Hurricanes. He played in the 4 jersey in that game.
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@Rapido I also wonder why this particular team has to benefit the PI Unions, as Pacific Rugby Welfare puts it. This is not the (future) Super Rugby team (as a pathway to test rugby for PI players). It's a team similar to the Māori ABs, a non-test representative team for players of a certain heritage, who are playing rugby in NZ.
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They've invited foreign interference into their domestic selections, funding, structure.
They are fools.
They will have 4 voices (The 3 island unions plus Pacific Welfare) constantly in the media of which I doubt any of the 4 will ever all be happy at the same time.
This is just some end-of-season jolly.
Imagine when the real business starts.
I mean myself, and many others on this board, still resent Ian Foster as the most public figure in a Waikato Rugby Union operated Chiefs franchise from an ownership model structure from 15 years ago. NZRU will make nothing but resentments in this foray.
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@Rapido As far as I can see, NZR's whole discussion of future Super rugby options has been an absolute shambles.
They've fucked off the Australians. They've fucked off the Pacific. The South Africans have fucked off.
And they've ended up getting pretty much nothing that they proposed.
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@Nepia said in 2020 Māori All Blacks:
Wait, what’s going on here. I thought this was just a one off game between two Baa Baa teams and has nothing to do with any Pasifika super rugby franchises?
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@Nepia Yes, this is a one-off match. But they were stupid enough to give it the same name as the Pacific franchise that hopes to join SR in 2022.
I hope we can keep that discussion out of this thread. The Pasifika SR team thread can be found here:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4217/pasifika-sr-team/22 -
@Stargazer said in 2020 Māori All Blacks:
I hope we can keep that discussion out of this thread. The Pasifika SR team thread can be found here:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4217/pasifika-sr-team/22You realise what you're asking don't you....
You want the people of the fern to stick to their lanes?
Impossible.
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@Stargazer said in 2020 Māori All Blacks:
@Nepia Yes, this is a one-off match. But they were stupid enough to give it the same name as the Pacific franchise that hopes to join SR in 2022.
I hope we can keep that discussion out of this thread. The Pasifika SR team thread can be found here:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4217/pasifika-sr-team/22Just out of interest, has the team name been trademarked, either for the one off game or for the potential SR franchise?
, I hope the last paragraph is nothing more than rumours ...
