2021 Rugby Championship
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@machpants said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@kiwimurph said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
Exclusive: Sanzaar considering shock Rugby Championship relocation
While the bulk of the Rugby Championship was set to be played in Australia this year due to the ongoing impact of the global pandemic, RugbyPass understands that the competition is potentially set for a surprise relocation.
Sources have confirmed to RugbyPass that Sanzaar are weighing up shifting the Rugby Championship to Europe for the remainder of the competition, following the Springboks’ match with Argentina this weekend. Four double-headers are tentatively being planned for Paris, London, Dublin and Cardiff.Kaching$
EXACTLY!
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No sympathy for Rugby Australia. They showed their hand when they came out and declared the rest of the Rugby Championship had to be played in Perth when there were dozens of other options still on the table.
This all shows an urgent need for NZR to distance itself from Rugby Australia a bit more. We have shackled ourselves to a corpse.
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@majorrage said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@akan004 said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@majorrage He probably has a point but he has a history of whinging to the media. Did the same before the Welly test last year too. Like someone else said earlier, am not a fan of this being played out publicly.
Rennie is in Perth, with the rugby team he manages getting ready to play NZ in a week. The team finds out the match is off via social media, and not internally.
Is it really a big deal as to how he found out about the announcement? He's the coach of the team and he always knew that the likelihood of the game taking place was slim at best. Whether he found out via social media or through the proper channels ultimately makes very little difference to him as a coach.
I can understand RA being annoyed if the NZR didn't communicate this with them first before releasing the press release, as they are in daily negotiations with the NZR, but Rennie is just being a piston wristed gibbon about it imo.
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Would be nice to have that 100th test in South Africa but with no crowds anywhere seem to be OK. Just appreciating Springboks playing again is good enough, even on the moon.
We have a lot of UK players, playing there will make it easier to add players to the squad for injuries.
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@sparky The more we play you the worse Rugby does in Australia.
Been banging the exact same horse from the other side for ages. Playing each other achieves nothing but a slow death.
Not to mention you blokes are absolute bellends to deal with. 'Oh we have had our two (two?) Eden Park tests. That'll do us. We are too good to quarantine - you know, the exact thing we just made you do'.
And then you fucking announce it via social media. Couldn't make it up. Hopefully RA pull their finger out and commit to a domestic comp following this last fuck you from NZRU.
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@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@sparky The more we play you the worse Rugby does in Australia.
Been banging the exact same horse from the other side for ages. Playing each other achieves nothing but a slow death.
Not to mention you blokes are absolute bellends to deal with. 'Oh we have had our two (two?) Eden Park tests. That'll do us. We are too good to quarantine - you know, the exact thing we just made you do'.
And then you fucking announce it via social media. Couldn't make it up. Hopefully RA pull their finger out and commit to a domestic comp following this last fuck you from NZRU.
Um, what?
The Bledisloe Cup will be played in New Zealand after the Government granted the Australian team an economic exemption to enter this country. The exemption allows quarantine-free travel for the Wallabies, based on the argument that a rugby test match generates up to $20 million in spending. -
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@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@nzzp fucking bullshit. Our performances over the last 25 years have gotten worse year on year. Direct correlation.
respectfully, fella, that's not the question. How would you have gone without Super - that's the key question.
There's a reason SANZAAAAAR were consistently in the top 4 in the world - and it wasn't the Rugby Championship.
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@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@nzzp fucking bullshit. Our performances over the last 25 years have gotten worse year on year. Direct correlation.
You're not quite as good as you were in 1999-2000, but after that you are consistently in the top 2-8 in a cycle:
1999: Won it
2003: 2nd (Beaten finalist)
2007: Quarter finalist
2011: 3rd (lost to eventual champions in the semis)
2015: 2nd (Beaten finalist)
2019: Quarter finalistWith that record, you are probably the third best team in the World over the last 25 years. Your moaning isn't supported by the facts. Your team hasn't been as good as the ABs during that time, but we've had a golden era, as you did through the 1990s, and even then you went out in the quarters in 1995.
In fact, you're welcome, as playing us is probably what keeps you so strong.
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@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@sparky The more we play you the worse Rugby does in Australia.
Been banging the exact same horse from the other side for ages. Playing each other achieves nothing but a slow death.
Not to mention you blokes are absolute bellends to deal with. 'Oh we have had our two (two?) Eden Park tests. That'll do us. We are too good to quarantine - you know, the exact thing we just made you do'.
And then you fucking announce it via social media. Couldn't make it up. Hopefully RA pull their finger out and commit to a domestic comp following this last fuck you from NZRU.
Removed a little bit of the robustness of this post (play the ball, not the man), but I do agree with it entirely.
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@derpus wouldn't quarantining.require complete rescheduling?
The 2 games in nz were played when the were scheduled, just one location change, so the quarantine argument isn't identical
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@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@sparky The more we play you the worse Rugby does in Australia.
Been banging the exact same horse from the other side for ages. Playing each other achieves nothing but a slow death.
Not to mention you blokes are absolute bellends to deal with. 'Oh we have had our two (two?) Eden Park tests. That'll do us. We are too good to quarantine - you know, the exact thing we just made you do'.
And then you fucking announce it via social media. Couldn't make it up. Hopefully RA pull their finger out and commit to a domestic comp following this last fuck you from NZRU.
This is a slight thread hijack but who would you play instead? I am always interested to hear the answer because it’s not like the Wallabies would do any better against a full strength Boks or England (@Bones) and given the series against France C there’s no guarantee they’d do any better against the other NH sides. Which leaves basically Japan and the Island teams and, with all due respect, they’re not going to attract the crowds or the challenge to improve the situation.
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@canefan said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@akan004 said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
As expected, the whinger is having a whinge. Probably trying to take the attention away from his poor coaching record .
It wasn't our decision was it? WA closed its doors to us
Why let the truth get in the way of a good victimisation?
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@taniwharugby said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@derpus wouldn't quarantining.require complete rescheduling?
The 2 games in nz were played when the were scheduled, just one location change, so the quarantine argument isn't identical
The original schedule was Auckland - Perth - Wellington. There has already been schedule changes.
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@kiwimurph ah ok...were the 1st 2 consecutive weekends originally?
At any rate, Robinson is still a fool.
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@taniwharugby No they wern't. NZRU asked RA if they could reschedule and they obliged.
And no, WA didn't close the borders. If they did the premier of WA wouldn't be saying he will be looking to recover funds from ABs for cancelling.
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@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
And yes, Wallabies quarantined for two weeks in Wellington.
No they didn't, they arrived in the get home week NZers had, and didn;t have to quarantine. If they quarantined they wouldn't have played as they arrived within 2 weeks of the first Bledisloe. I'm not defending NZR executive, but don't lie
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@machpants said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
@derpus said in 2021 Rugby Championship:
And yes, Wallabies quarantined for two weeks in Wellington.
No they didn't, they arrived in the get home week NZers had, and didn;t have to quarantine. If they quarantined they wouldn't have played as they arrived within 2 weeks of the first Bledisloe. I'm not defending NZR executive, but don't lie
I think @Derpus means 2020 - Wallabies quarantining prior to Bledisloe 1 2020 at the Cake Tin.
Wallabies get exemption to enter NZ to play All Blacks despite Covid outbreaks
