Listening device found in All Black hotel

[barbarian]

https://t.co/05IxCt63DV

A sophisticated listening device was discovered in the All Blacks' team room in their hotel ahead of tonight's test against the Wallabies.

The device - the sort used by law enforcement and spying agencies - had been planted in a chair in the Sydney hotel where the team have been staying since Sunday, the Herald has learned.

It is unclear whether police will be called in but the hotel has launched its own investigation.

Would be huge if the ARU is in any way involved.

Also think it's interesting the All Blacks chose game morning to leak this discovery to the press!

 

[The torpedo]

Are there any ex-wallabies coaches still on the AB's coaching staff?

If so, the Bill Belichick double agent theory has struck:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1q4fh4/what_is_your_favorite_nfl_conspiracy_theory/cd92f08

 

[TOCC]

It's more likely linked to some news agency then the ARU, you would hope at least anyway

 

[Brumby Runner]

Can't see that a listening device would assist the Wallabies any more than watching as many replays of the ABs as possible.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

You'd hope ARU wouldn't be stupid enough to risk being caught having anything to do with this kind of thing. Illegal gambling would seem more likely, not sure how any info gleaned by these means would help them but then again they've been known to pay cricketers for their assessment of pitch conditions so who really knows?

@TOCC any news agency involved in this should lose their accreditation immediately & forever. The person(s) from said agency responsible should be prosecuted. We just don't need this shit in sport.

 

[barbarian]

I love the idea of a betting agency bugging the room....... 'guys I've been listening to the tapes all week, and it's a radical idea but I think the All Blacks should be comfortable favourites for this game'.

 

[The torpedo]

I can imagine facebook if the AB's lose tonight (which they won't):

The wallabies spied on us!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!1!!!

Wallabies cheated!!!!!1!!!

etc, etc, etc.....

 

[zer0]

Are there any ex-wallabies coaches still on the AB's coaching staff?

If so, the Bill Belichick double agent theory has struck:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1q4fh4/what_is_your_favorite_nfl_conspiracy_theory/cd92f08

No, but there's ex-All Black coaches in the Wallabies coaching team once more. As for the root cause? I think it's quite clear. The 2001 Lions. Graham Henry never forgives and never forgets.

 

[cyclopath]

Eddie Jones. Shit-stirrer par excellence. Chucking hand grenades remotely. It's the only sensible theory.


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[waiopehu oldboy]

I love the idea of a betting agency bugging the room... 'guys I've been listening to the tapes all week, and it's a radical idea but I think the All Blacks should be comfortable favourites for this game'.

I doubt bet365 or any of the other legal agencies would bother, for the reason you state. It's more the illegal spot-market types you have to worry about, as cricket among other sports has learned the hard way.

 

[Highlander35]

99.9995% chance it's some fuckwit from a betting company or an "independent" journalist or left by accident by some other party.

If it happened to be an ARU plant, not surprising it would occur under Cheika.

 

[FrankLind]

Were some famous or criminal types using that room b4 the ABs and the listening device was left over?????

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

If it turns out to be a legit betting agency then all Unions should publicly, immediately & permanently cut all ties plus ARU take legal action (on the basis it happened on their watch, so to speak).

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

You'd hope that nobody in the ARU or the Wallabies would be stupid enough to do something like this.

 

[cyclopath]

99.9995% chance it's some fuckwit from a betting company or an "independent" journalist or left by accident by some other party.

If it happened to be an ARU plant, not surprising it would occur under Cheika.

I'm pretty sure it's not really fair to write such a slur about Cheika. He plays hard but I reckon that's a poor thing to say.

 

[Simon.]

Yeah, either illegal betting or media organisation, but probably betting. Illegal bookie or punting syndicate.

I doubt it would be a legal betting agency as they just cover themselves by shortening the odds enough that in the long run, they don't really care who wins. So there's no real incentive for them to take the risk.

It must be tempting for the ABs when they find a bug to leave it there, and just feed it a long stream of false information so whoever's behind it loses their shirt.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ perhaps they did

 

[FrankLind]

Spinning out conspiracy theories
- rugby in trouble in OZ,
- some in the ARU stand to lose their jobs have their salaries reduced if it continues,
- ideal boost for the game (job security of ARU) would be to win the Bledisloe
.............

 

[TOCC]

Probably planted by one of the strippers the AB's brought in

 

[Zack]

https://t.co/05IxCt63DV



Would be huge if the ARU is in any way involved.

Also think it's interesting the All Blacks chose game morning to leak this discovery to the press!

Let's see: the device was discovered on Monday after the All Blacks arrived a day earlier, they reported it to the hotel security who investigated, they all sat on the story for 5 days UNTIL someone from the media was clearly leaked the story, asked the NZRU for comment this morning which prompted the NZRU to inform Pulver/ARU of the story about to break and the statement the NZRU were releasing in response to the media query....

..and you conclude that "the All Blacks chose game morning to leak this discovery..."?? You must have got caught up at the bottom of too many rucks to have reached this conclusion!! The fact that the NZRU rushed to notify Pulver/ARU this morning tells me the NZRU were not going to raise it at all but were forced into it when reached for comment by the media - and it also explains why Steve Hansen was not amused earlier in the week!