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Rugby Championship in an Aussie bubble?

Derpus

Derpus

George Gregan (70)
Man - everyone is over-complicating it all. Either the NZ restrictions are eased as WOB alluded to, allowing full training from day 1, or the Wallabies won't be able to train for several days. Therefore - the Wallabies will have less prep time.

Can hardly blame Rennie for not wanting to take on the bestest team in all the world on their own turf with insufficient prep - particularly as they will be his first two games. I'd be leaning hard on the NZRU to shift the dates as well.

Edit: the game could also be midweek - who says it has to be on the weekend? particularly if there aren't going to be crowds.
 
Dan54

Dan54

Tim Horan (67)
Derpus said:
Man - everyone is over-complicating it all. Either the NZ restrictions are eased as WOB alluded to, allowing full training from day 1, or the Wallabies won't be able to train for several days. Therefore - the Wallabies will have less prep time.

Can hardly blame Rennie for not wanting to take on the bestest team in all the world on their own turf with insufficient prep - particularly as they will be his first two games. I'd be leaning hard on the NZRU to shift the dates as well.

Edit: the game could also be midweek - who says it has to be on the weekend? particularly if there aren't going to be crowds.
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Yep they have said they can be Sunday, but will be crowds NZ return to level 1 next week. No way will they relax rules for training from day 1, but can't see that being a huge problem, even the ABs won't be together by then anyway.
 
zer0

zer0

Jim Lenehan (48)
There's an awful lot of arithmetic over these last few pages trying to figure out how to escape Eden Park.

You cannot.

Like the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy, it is an inevitable gaping maw of pure darkness waiting to swallow you c*nts up each and every year.
 
Braveheart81

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
Staff member
Breaking: Bledisloe Cup dates confirmed in NZ. 1st Test will be on Sunday October 11 in Wellington, 2nd Test on Sunday October 18 in Auckland. Then to Aus for TRC. Meanwhile, Aus will be able to train fully as a squad four days after arriving. Big change to a couple of days ago

From Tom Decent

1:30pm AEDT kick offs.
 
Braveheart81

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
Staff member
So the Sunday games give the Wallabies an extra day and the agreed quarantine changes mean the Wallabies can train as a full squad from day 4 of arriving in NZ.
 
Ulrich

Ulrich

Nev Cottrell (35)
Hopefully they're sensible here and have Arg and SA play one another first, maybe even twice in a row so both teams will be a little more match ready for the other games. That is if both manage to get there in the first place.
 
Rebels3

Rebels3

Jim Lenehan (48)
Ulrich said:
Hopefully they're sensible here and have Arg and SA play one another first, maybe even twice in a row so both teams will be a little more match ready for the other games. That is if both manage to get there in the first place.
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100%, even an SA game against Aus A could be welcome although might be reluctant to take players out of CC a week earlier than proposed to make that happen
 
Ulrich

Ulrich

Nev Cottrell (35)
Rebels3 said:
100%, even an SA game against Aus A could be welcome although might be reluctant to take players out of CC a week earlier than proposed to make that happen
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Provisional scheduling is as follows: Super Heroes Sunday on 27 Sept (doubts over that, but it might happen)
The weekend following a sort of North v South match.
Then 1 or two CC/Super Rugby games the following weekends before they have to leave. So will have anything between 2 and 4 games of domestic rugby before we leave.
 
Dan54

Dan54

Tim Horan (67)
Dan54 said:
Yep they have said they can be Sunday, but will be crowds NZ return to level 1 next week. No way will they relax rules for training from day 1, but can't see that being a huge problem, even the ABs won't be together by then anyway.
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Well I will say nothing more!!! ;):p
 
Dan54

Dan54

Tim Horan (67)
Ulrich said:
Hopefully they're sensible here and have Arg and SA play one another first, maybe even twice in a row so both teams will be a little more match ready for the other games. That is if both manage to get there in the first place.
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That makes almost too much sense for it too happen wouldn't Ullrich? I really hope they do, and f*** if ABs and Wallabies have already played each other twice, we need to make it fair as possible.
 
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