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[Other Sport] Rugby World cup.



*Gullsworth*

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Jan 20, 2006
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Australia & New Zealand withdraw from the Rugby World cup in the UK. Apparently they are not trusting the UK methods of containing the Pandemic.
 


crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
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Lyme Regis
Gutted, the Rugby World Cup would have been a huge boon for the nation post pandemic and I'm sure audiences in stadia, covid permitting and on TV, would have been huge. They are right though their governments have done a much better job of containing and controlling the pandemic, much of Australia is currently in lockdown with in the low hundreds of daily cases so they must see us as a basket case with 50,000+ daily cases and a free for all.
 










SAC

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May 21, 2014
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I'm not a rugby fan but I thought the next Rugby World Cup was in France, 2023.
 










Kinky Gerbil

Im The Scatman
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Jul 16, 2003
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Australia & New Zealand withdraw from the Rugby World cup in the UK. Apparently they are not trusting the UK methods of containing the Pandemic.

Weird, we have shown with hosting Cricket, football and Tennis we can do it safely.

It sounds more like Australia/NZ carrying on the zero covid plan.

I dont see how Australia can host the T20 world cup this year.
 






Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Uffern
Oh. The interesting one. Not 'kick and clap, then off to the bar for a game of soggy biscuit'.

:lolol:

Not our rugby club, everyone's too busy scoffing bacon butties post game

(my tongue was firmly in my cheek BTW, I used to watch Bradford Northern regularly when I lived there)
 


Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
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Apr 5, 2014
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We might win the thing now :clap2::banana::clap:

My thoughts exactly.

Sadly, this isn't the proper rugby tournament. It's the one for those there northern scruffs.
 


ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
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Weird, we have shown with hosting Cricket, football and Tennis we can do it safely.

It sounds more like Australia/NZ carrying on the zero covid plan.

I dont see how Australia can host the T20 world cup this year.

It's already been switched to India, then switched again to UAE/Oman. Australia are due to host it next year.
 




LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
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Weird, we have shown with hosting Cricket, football and Tennis we can do it safely.

It sounds more like Australia/NZ carrying on the zero covid plan.

I dont see how Australia can host the T20 world cup this year.

…also emerging some players in doubt for the ashes tour if their families aren’t allowed during the three month stay according to TS
 


crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
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Lyme Regis
…also emerging some players in doubt for the ashes tour if their families aren’t allowed during the three month stay according to TS

The Ashes must be in grave danger, I highly doubt there will be full capacities, and a very fair chance they will all be behind closed doors and I expect the teams will have to stay in bio secure bubbles after a strict 14 day quarantine for the England players. It will be a tough, tough time for them.
 




LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
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SHOREHAM BY SEA
The Ashes must be in grave danger, I highly doubt there will be full capacities, and a very fair chance they will all be behind closed doors and I expect the teams will have to stay in bio secure bubbles after a strict 14 day quarantine for the England players. It will be a tough, tough time for them.

Yes…although there is still a fair time to go…a fair amount of disruption seems inevitable ..more than anything over how things evolve in Oz over the next few months
 




essbee1

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Jun 25, 2014
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Rugby League? All I can remember about this game is endless, tedious wet Saturday afternoons when I was younger
listening to Eddie Waring talking about a game that seemed to come from a distant land somewhere. And the BBC showing
it because, apart from horse racing from Haydock Park, that was all that was available.
 


Brovion

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Jul 6, 2003
19,322
Rugby League? All I can remember about this game is endless, tedious wet Saturday afternoons when I was younger
listening to Eddie Waring talking about a game that seemed to come from a distant land somewhere. And the BBC showing
it because, apart from horse racing from Haydock Park, that was all that was available
.

And Scambling! Don't forget Scrambling! Arthur Lampkin was one of my first sporting heroes.
 



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