Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged)
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The bugging saga continues, with Aussie police not ruling out the bug being planted by someone in the NZ camp...
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I think they alerted the Hotel promptly but it was them that delayed telling the police?
I suspect you would want to find the source wouldn't you? ARU would want their 'good name' cleared, Hotel would want themselves cleared of any part in it....?
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The media love a good headline eh. "So have you ruled out the possibility that the ABs bugged themselves??" "We haven't ruled anything out, we are still investigating".
Headline: ABs bugged their own room!!!!!
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If only the players put as much effort in their skills sessions as the media does making asinine suggestions.
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@No-Quarter said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
The media love a good headline eh. "So have you ruled out the possibility that the ABs bugged themselves??" "We haven't ruled anything out, we are still investigating".
Headline: ABs bugged their own room!!!!!
Aussie media desparate to make the ABs the villains.
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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.
