Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged)
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Man charged over All Blacks hotel bug
A man has been charged after a listening device was located in a room at a hotel in Sydney’s east last year. Police have been investigating allegations a listening device was located in a room at a hotel in Double Bay. They say a 51-year-old man had been arrested for public mischief to appear at Waverley Local Court on March 21. At the time of the alleged offence, the man was employed as a security consultant. The ABC says he was contracted by the All Blacks. The All Blacks stayed in the hotel in August last year and the discovery of a listening device dominated headlines on the day of the match against the Wallabies. -
contracted by the ABs?
CSI need to examine his accounts in the Cayman Islands to see all the payments from Qwayde....
So if contracted by the ABs, either they wanted to make it appear they were being spied on, or someone from outside the ABs paid him off to do it in hopes of some intel??
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I think you misread that as I did when I first read it.
I think he was contracted by the AB's to provide security ... and he's been paid off on the side to plant a bug by somebody else.
Not contracted by the AB's to plant a bug. Despite what the Matt Rowleys of this world believe, I'm not into ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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Could also be the he had a plan to work as a private contractor, with information for sale?
Strange.
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@MajorRage think thats what I said, if he is contracted to the ABs as security and paid by a third party...I was giving the other option as, well, thats what Aussie media suggested at one time wasnt it, ie that it was planted by the ABs, when the Aussie cops said they hadnt ruled that out...
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It's getting even crazier; see the last sentence below ...
A SECURITY consultant tasked with protecting the New Zealand rugby team has been charged in relation to the discovery of a bugging device in the All Blacks’ team rooms last year. After six-month investigation, detectives charged 51-year-old Adrian Gard with public mischief after over allegations he planted a listening device in a chair in All Blacks team room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Double Bay in August last year. Gard was the man said to have been hired by Schapelle Corby to protect the convicted drug smuggler’s lucrative media deal back in 2014. -
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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
What the heck?
ARU still managing to play the victim.
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@Kruse said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@booboo
Perhaps he planted it, then "found it"... thereby justifying his own job?Quite feasible and, if true, an explanation of Hansen's shock.
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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
When that comment from Hansen came out you could pretty quickly rule out anyone from the ARU being involved.
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@booboo said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
What the heck?
ARU still managing to play the victim.
That's the sort of thing you get when you have corporate types running the show.
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@Catogrande said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@booboo said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
What the heck?
ARU still managing to play the victim.
That's the sort of thing you get when you have corporate types running the show.
Pulver is an imbecile. Recently he said the Sydney sevens was the most complex event ever run.
Aside from scheduling issues, the main challenge for the ARU with the Sevens is to ensure its longevity remains, with Wellington a cautionary tale for how quickly tournaments can lose their novelty.
“It is an example of how you can't rest on your laurels, you have to keep re-energising your event and keep it fresh"
“I suspect it would have been the most complex event, logistically, I have ever seen.
“It actually blows my mind. I'm not sure there would have ever been a more complex event to run and it went off without a hitch."
Quite bizarre.
Tew ain't perfect, but it could be so much, much worse.
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@Frye We have a corporate game here in the UK called "Wankword Bingo". At any tedious corporate meeting the players each get a small bingo card but instead of numbers you get corporate speak phrases like:
Blue sky thinking
Pushing the envelope
Energisingetc etc.
It sounds like with Pulver giving the talk the shouts of Housey-Housey and Bingo would be heard many times over.
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@Frye said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@Catogrande said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@booboo said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
What the heck?
ARU still managing to play the victim.
That's the sort of thing you get when you have corporate types running the show.
Pulver is an imbecile. Recently he said the Sydney sevens was the most complex event ever run.
Aside from scheduling issues, the main challenge for the ARU with the Sevens is to ensure its longevity remains, with Wellington a cautionary tale for how quickly tournaments can lose their novelty.
“It is an example of how you can't rest on your laurels, you have to keep re-energising your event and keep it fresh"
“I suspect it would have been the most complex event, logistically, I have ever seen.
“It actually blows my mind. I'm not sure there would have ever been a more complex event to run and it went off without a hitch."
It was YUGE!
