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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    Only 2 home games next year in the shortened Rugby Championship in a RWC year.

    All Blacks v South Africa, Westpac Stadium, Wellington 27 July 2019
    All Blacks v Australia, Eden Park, Auckland 17 August 2019*

    *Double-header with Black Ferns v Australia

    2019 Test match venues confirmed

    2019 Test match venues confirmed

    New Zealand’s world champion All Blacks and Black Ferns will feature in a blockbuster double-header in Auckland next year, while Wellington is set to host the mouth-watering Rugby World Cup 2019 preview between the All Blacks and South Africa.

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    I'm gunna make both of those, I hope

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    Am surprised they didn't switch the venues. Boks must surely be bigger crowd puller at the moment.

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    @majorrage said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    Am surprised they didn't switch the venues. Boks must surely be bigger crowd puller at the moment.

    Bled is always a big crowd and it's nice to keep the Wallabies EP hoodoo going for another year

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    I hope there is just the one Bledisloe test next year. A winner takes all game would add some excitement.

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    @sparky said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    I hope there is just the one Bledisloe test next year. A winner takes all game would add some excitement.

    Article says test in Perth the weekend prior to Eden Park test. Can't find any information re: other fixtures to see if they are going with a 3 or 4 round tournament for TRC, but imagine if it is 3 rounds the Auckland test is the "extra" Bledisloe.

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    We've not exactly been great the games before RWC recently, and if the timing is same as last cup, it'll be ABs B team to take on the wallas. So could be a good close game!

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    @sparky said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    I hope there is just the one Bledisloe test next year. A winner takes all game would add some excitement.

    Nah. I don't want them to even get a sniff of the giant cup. Continue to humiliate them - I haven't forgotten those nail biters when the pricks were actually quite good.

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    Two games: One to wrap up the Bled for another year. One to lose and give them a false sense of security as they "win" the Rugby Championship.

    Meanwhile everyone else focuses on the RWC.

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    @rotated said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    Can't find any information re: other fixtures to see if they are going with a 3 or 4 round tournament for TRC, but imagine if it is 3 rounds the Auckland test is the "extra" Bledisloe.

    Usually only 3 RC games each in a RWC year so the ABs will be playing Arg away. Two teams will have 2 home games and the other 2 only 1 home game.

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    @bovidae said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @rotated said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    Can't find any information re: other fixtures to see if they are going with a 3 or 4 round tournament for TRC, but imagine if it is 3 rounds the Auckland test is the "extra" Bledisloe.

    Usually only 3 RC games each in a RWC year so the ABs will be playing Arg away. Two teams will have 2 home games and the other 2 only 1 home game.

    I was looking for a full RC 2019 fixture list but cannot find one, Super Sport say the All Blacks play Argentina away next year, and the Auckland Bledisloe is not the RC one. The RC one is the Perth Bledisloe (which is already sold out!).

    So the All Blacks have only 1 home RC Test in 2019 (vs SA) as they did in 2015, I would have thought they might have swapped it around.

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  • StargazerS Offline
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    @unite That's correct. Australia will play the Springboks at home, so they'll have two RC home games.

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    So this is the schedule that I can piece together?

    Rugby Championship 2019

    Argentina v All Blacks (Date?)
    South Africa v Australia (Date?)

    Wallabies v Argentina, Suncorp Stadium Brisbane 27th July Brisbane
    All Blacks v South Africa, Westpac Stadium, Wellington 27 July

    Wallabies v All Blacks, Perth Stadium 10th August
    South Africa v Argentina (or vice versa, location?) 10th August

    2nd Bledisloe 2019

    All Blacks v Australia, Eden Park, Auckland 17 August 2019

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    @unite said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    So the All Blacks have only 1 home RC Test in 2019 (vs SA) as they did in 2015, I would have thought they might have swapped it around.

    I think you will find the draw will be the opposite of what it was in 2015. The ABs played SA in Jo'burg that year so this time have a home game. We only had 1 home RC game that year too so get 2 home games in 2019.

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    New Zealand Rugby Chief Executive Steve Tew today revealed details of the additional Test match fixture on the All Blacks’ 2019 calendar. The match will be played at FMG Stadium, Waikato, on Saturday 7 September, at 2.35pm. It will be a hit-out for the Rugby World Cup 2019 squad, and it will be the first All Blacks Test match in Hamilton since 2016.

    http://www.allblacks.com/News/33487/all-blacks-to-play-tonga-in-hamilton-in-2019

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    @bovidae Good idea. They will need a warm up before the crucial first pool game against the Springboks.

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    @sparky As long as there are no injuries on the eve of their departure. I was at the Harlequins (ABs in disguise) vs Waikato game in 1995 when Zinny got injured.

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    @bovidae said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @sparky As long as there are no injuries on the eve of their departure. I was at the Harlequins (ABs in disguise) vs Waikato game in 1995 when Zinny got injured.

    I sure as hit hope you're not going along next September.

    That said, I've emailed the lads that we roady down with. Hamilton is always a good day out - a proper rectangular stadium in NZ is awesome, and worth a trip to

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    Not sure where else to post this, but the silence about the All Blacks camps has been deafening, with NZR not giving any dates of when the camps take place at all.

    However, Scott Barrett was interviewed yesterday, and he was asked what he did during his week off. He said he'd been back home to Taranaki to see the family. The reporter then asked whether he saw his Hurricanes broters as well, and he said he didn't, because they were in camp.

    So there was a North Island camp last week. Still no clue about the others though.

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    @Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    Not sure where else to post this, but the silence about the All Blacks camps has been deafening, with NZR not giving any dates of when the camps take place at all.

    However, Scott Barrett was interviewed yesterday, and he was asked what he did during his week off. He said he'd been back home to Taranaki to see the family. The reporter then asked whether he saw his Hurricanes broters as well, and he said he didn't, because they were in camp.

    So there was a North Island camp last week. Still no clue about the others though.

    Could that not be in the Hurricanes camp?

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    @Hooroo Don't know, but why would he call that "camp"? You'd think he would just say (training) with the Canes in that case? Whatever is the case, the silence from NZR about the camps is still really odd and annoying.

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    @Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @Hooroo Don't know, but why would he call that "camp"? You'd think he would just say (training) with the Canes in that case? Whatever is the case, the silence from NZR about the camps is still really odd and annoying.

    Out of curiosity, how come it is odd or annoying?

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    @Hooroo Because they were open about it last year and they're being secretive about it this year. Just my opinion, maybe others are okay with knowing nothing.

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    @Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @Hooroo Because they were open about it last year and they're being secretive about it this year. Just my opinion, maybe others are okay with knowing nothing.

    In a WC year, I am happy with the AB staff keeping everything close to their chest.

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    @Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @Hooroo Because they were open about it last year and they're being secretive about it this year. Just my opinion, maybe others are okay with knowing nothing.

    Keeping their camp powder dry as well maybe?

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    @Stargazer probably bigger news than Nonu not being there, that the name AKIRA IOANE IS in there!

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    No Papalii. Interesting.

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    @taniwharugby Luke Whitelock, too. 😉

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    The names that stand out for me are: Tyrel Lomax, Jackson Hemopo, Akira Ioane and, to a degree, Luke Whitelock in the forwards, and George Bridge in the backs.

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    @taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @Stargazer probably bigger news than Nonu not being there, that the name AKIRA IOANE IS in there!

    but but but he touches people's heads!!! that's going to cost us in big games.

    And selectors see that, you mark my words....

    Pretty decent collection of players, only a bit of dross easily culled. Nailed on World Cup favourites.

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    looking at the list and the order, appears D-Mac is there as a 10.

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    @KiwiMurph said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    No Papalii. Interesting.

    He looks like the only 2018 full squad member who is missing?

    A few of the Japan squad guys didn't make it either but that is no surprise.

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    @KiwiMurph said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    No Papalii. Interesting.

    He's been really inaccurate this season. If Gibson wasn't made of glass, I doubt he'd have had time on the field.

    I'm not surprised Luke Whitelock is there, he's been a favourite third wheel for ever. But his form this season is nothing to get excited about.

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    @antipodean said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    But his form ever is nothing to get excited about.

    fixed that. The very definition of a "solid" player. yawn

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    @taniwharugby Probably because there is no other candidate for a third first five-eighth spot.

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    @mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @antipodean said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    But his form ever is nothing to get excited about.

    fixed that. The very definition of a "solid" player. yawn

    But this season he isn't even that. The one thing going for him was supposed to be his dependency in defence.

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    @Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

    @taniwharugby Probably because there is no other candidate for a third first five-eighth spot.

    If DMac is the third best five-eighth in New Zealand, our mystical depth has disappeared.

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    @antipodean Yes, we're very light on good "10s".

    Edit: considering what happened during the 2011 RWC, I'd like Mitch Hunt and Josh Ioane to get more game time. Thinking that they capped Cameron ahead of them and might be tempted to call him up in case of injuries, gives me nightmares.

    Don't think any of the others are even on a very distant radar, yet.

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