All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures)

[antipodean]

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

Saturday 25 September
All Blacks vs South Africa, 7.05PM, Forsyth Barr Stadium, DUNEDIN

Right, hopefully now I'll finally get to see this stadium in the flesh. Good game for it too.

[canefan]

@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

Saturday 25 September
All Blacks vs South Africa, 7.05PM, Forsyth Barr Stadium, DUNEDIN

Right, hopefully now I'll finally get to see this stadium in the flesh. Good game for it too.

Get a seat on the long sideline if you can. The ones at the end are super cramped

[Bovidae]

@antipodean said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

Saturday 25 September
All Blacks vs South Africa, 7.05PM, Forsyth Barr Stadium, DUNEDIN

Right, hopefully now I'll finally get to see this stadium in the flesh. Good game for it too.

Yeah, this would be a great game to attend and I have been thinking about it too. The problem is usually around getting accommodation.

[Machpants]

Aaaaaand flights, hotel booked for welly, so both NZ bleds. Waiting on mates numbers for how many tickets I buy

[Stargazer]

@stargazer said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has today announced three test matches for November. One of them is a test against the All Blacks .

So that's three test matche, not yet confirmed by NZR, for the end-of-year tour (assuming it's going ahead):

• Sat 30 October: v Wales in Cardiff
• Sat 6 November: v Italy (venue TBC)
• Sat 20 November: v France in Paris (k/o 9.00pm local time)

Make that four. Confirmed by the Irish RFU, not NZR yet:

• Sat 13 November: v Ireland in Dublin

Also announced, a three-match series in 2022! Dates & venues TBC. From the ABs sides all these matches still have to be confirmed.

IF there will be tour. All will depend on the COVID situation, obviously.

IRFU media release: https://www.irishrugby.ie/2021/07/12/irelands-autumn-internationals-confirmed/

[nzzp]

@stargazer that's going to be tasty. Chance of revenge, but with the current coaching setup, I'm not convinced we'll demolish them like we have on previous tours. Average score has been 35-13 (although there's a bunch o'history in there).

Really, they should have drawn or won on the last tour in Christchurch. Then we dished out a 60-0 hiding in Hamilton; Cruden was simply sensational for 20 odd minutes, and then went off injured. Beaudy came on I think.

Do we think the current lot have that sort of performance in them? No, we do not. Sad face.

[Tim]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/125862751/all-blacks-lock-in-bledisloe-i-at-eden-park-but-three-testseries-in-nz-not-yet-on-the-table

[Snowy]

@tim To be fair if you are going to have to re schedule a rugby test, a beer festival is about the only valid reason.

[Machpants]

@tim said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/125862751/all-blacks-lock-in-bledisloe-i-at-eden-park-but-three-testseries-in-nz-not-yet-on-the-table

So I'm going to the first test, long weekend in Auckland. Then supposed to fly to welly, and also the Argentina test in Auckland.

One out of three ain't bad?

[Tim]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/nz-rugby-forced-to-scrap-two-home-tests-against-the-pumas/3Q34SU7764AVIOVEKHQVQ475VU/

[Nepia]

@tim said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/nz-rugby-forced-to-scrap-two-home-tests-against-the-pumas/3Q34SU7764AVIOVEKHQVQ475VU/

At least, despite the headline, the matches themselves look to be going ahead, just in the Covid-free parts of Oz (assuming there's any left in September).

[Stargazer]

I wonder whether they've even considered moving that test in Perth two weeks forward to 7 August (making it Bledisloe 1), the 2nd in Auckland (the Beervana weekend, 14 August) and the third in Wellington (21 or 28 August)?

And why are the Argies doing their managed isolation is Oz, if they're playing us first? Why can't they do it here?

[canefan]

@stargazer said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

What's the difference between teams going into managed isolation in Australia and NZ? Why can't all the games be played in NZ, instead of Australia?

Coz they are being wank about it?

[Kirwan]

@stargazer said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

I wonder whether they've even considered moving that test in Perth two weeks forward to 7 August (making it Bledisloe 1), the 2nd in Auckland (the Beervana weekend, 14 August) and the third in Wellington (21 or 28 August)?

And why are the Argies doing their managed isolation is Oz, if they're playing us first? Why can't they do it here?

No space in MIQ?

[Machpants]

@stargazer said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

I wonder whether they've even considered moving that test in Perth two weeks forward to 7 August (making it Bledisloe 1), the 2nd in Auckland (the Beervana weekend, 14 August) and the third in Wellington (21 or 28 August)?

Because once in Oz after this Friday, you are stuck there for at least another 7 ish weeks, the bubble popped, Bled 1 Perth 7 Aug then two weeks quarantine (not that they'd get MIQ spaces) then test 2? Not even an option

And why are the Argies doing their managed isolation is Oz, if they're playing us first? Why can't they do it here?

Cos Oz have a much more relaxed, and I think specialised, team quarantine facility in NSW - France just used it. They have a hotel and base, already booked for Arg and SA, and they can train together as a team from Day 1 of their 2 week quarantine. NZ doesn't have the facilities, or I think the desire, to have that much of a relaxed inbound team quarantine procedure. This allows the Boks and Arge to play on their 3rd week in country with a decent enough build up, decent enough to knock over the ABs for the first time in history!

[Bovidae]

What happens if the covid situation in NSW is not under control? Does WA and QLD have the same quarantine facilities?

[Machpants]

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

What happens if the covid situation in NSW is not under control? Does WA and QLD have the same quarantine facilities?

It was mentioned that the NSW facilities were ok for all of Oz, as in they don't count as being in NSW for inter state restrictions

[Bovidae]

@machpants said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

What happens if the covid situation in NSW is not under control? Does WA and QLD have the same quarantine facilities?

It was mentioned that the NSW facilities were ok for all of Oz, as in they don't count as being in NSW for inter state restrictions

But they still wouldn't be able to play in Sydney.

[Machpants]

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

@machpants said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

@bovidae said in All Blacks Test match venues (upcoming fixtures):

What happens if the covid situation in NSW is not under control? Does WA and QLD have the same quarantine facilities?

It was mentioned that the NSW facilities were ok for all of Oz, as in they don't count as being in NSW for inter state restrictions

But they still wouldn't be able to play in Sydney.

No the games will be elsewhere, Perth probably!

[Stargazer]

https://twitter.com/AllBlacks/status/1419667573277331461