Super Rugby 2022

[Dan54]

Or next Monday

Leader of the Opposition is gunna have a field day with this cluster fuck. Leader of the Nats also

Lol if we know who is leader of Nats WOB.
Geez I was pretty keen on things on rugby getting back to some normality too!!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Hard to do when more and more government policy is seemingly being made up more and more on the fly, unfortunately. If it's anything like their most recent plan for changing restrictions then they'll drop the requirements by January/February.

Thanks to kamikaze Collins burning Bridges then being thrown into the fire herself, they'll now likely get a free pass, in the short term at least .

 

[Dan54]

I see the Super powers gather on Monday to discuss how next season will pan out.
I actually wonder if this new Covid variant coming from South Africa doesn't attempt to throw another spanner in the works.

 

[PhilClinton]

I see the Super powers gather on Monday to discuss how next season will pan out.
I actually wonder if this new Covid variant coming from South Africa doesn't attempt to throw another spanner in the works.

I doubt it.

Australia will be fully ‘open’ for roughly 3 months by the time Super Rugby is due to start. I doubt any variants or the like will cause us to regress back to a lockdown situation.

NZ need to come to the party. Even if keep roughly the same guidelines, it’s crazy to hold a global competition off this late in the COVID game. There need to be exemptions made.

 

[Derpus]

I see the Super powers gather on Monday to discuss how next season will pan out.
I actually wonder if this new Covid variant coming from South Africa doesn't attempt to throw another spanner in the works.

I'm not going back into lockdown.

 

[liquor box]

I see the Super powers gather on Monday to discuss how next season will pan out.
I actually wonder if this new Covid variant coming from South Africa doesn't attempt to throw another spanner in the works.

I wouldn't be upset with an AU competition again, it was awesome to watch

 

[PhilClinton]

I wouldn't be upset with an AU competition again, it was awesome to watch

I feel the same. But this situation is a bit different, it’s a one way issue. I imagine NZRU are quite frustrated with their government.

This is the competition they wanted, so I think it’s more likely we could see a revised draw with all teams playing in Australia for a few weeks.

 

[Kenny Powers]

NZ is roughly at the same level as Australia for eligible population vaccinated. NZ has a very complicated and uncertain process for reopening that Is causing a lot of angst I have heard from NZ residents.
Jacinta Arden is really an over promoted student politician scratch the surface there’s nothing there.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ if you're going to rubbish someone at least get their first & last names right.

 

[PhilClinton]

She’s just as bad as Scout Marrison

 

[BDA]

I doubt any variants or the like will cause us to regress back to a lockdown situation.

Other countries have said this but ended up back in lockdown. If we get to a point where our hospitals can't cope with the numbers then the state governments will be forced to resort to lockdowns. We've seen this overseas. Seems unlikely but certainly possible particularly if some gnarly new variant hits our shores.

 

[dru]

Other countries have said this but ended up back in lockdown. If we get to a point where our hospitals can't cope with the numbers then the state governments will be forced to resort to lockdowns. We've seen this overseas. Seems unlikely but certainly possible particularly if some gnarly new variant hits our shores.

'We don't know a lot about it': Health bosses monitoring Omicron outbreak as new travel ban comes into force

The federal government announces travel bans and new quarantine rules amid concerns about the new Omicron COVID-19 variant circulating in southern Africa.

www.abc.net.au

Borders closed to those countries.

 

[Derpus]

What's the go with the new variant, anyway? We know anything about it yet?

 

[Rugbynutter39]

I wouldn't be upset with an AU competition again, it was awesome to watch

But with Fiji please

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

What's the go with the new variant, anyway? We know anything about it yet?

Appears to be more transmissable but too soon to tell if it's also more lethal and/ or vaccine-resistant.

 

[Derpus]

Appears to be more transmissable but too soon to tell if it's also more lethal and/ or vaccine-resistant.

isnt that the standard trajectory for these viruses? I've read the less deadly a mutation the easier it propagates.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ I believe so which is possibly why WHO etc are concerned but not (yet?) going into panic mode.

 

[Dan54]

I doubt it.

Australia will be fully ‘open’ for roughly 3 months by the time Super Rugby is due to start. I doubt any variants or the like will cause us to regress back to a lockdown situation.

NZ need to come to the party. Even if keep roughly the same guidelines, it’s crazy to hold a global competition off this late in the COVID game. There need to be exemptions made.

Mate, I don't know if you read the news, but Europe is staring to close off to SA again, because of the new Covid variant. I am happy for Gov't to open up, but I doubt whether they will be prepared to open up for rugby, as they will get to much shit from their supporters maybe for special treatment. I don't know who right or wrong, I not a medical person but I worried this new variant just may cause some hesitation of borders opening.
IWe got different Gov'ts handling it all different ways, we got Aunty Cindy creeping along, you got Donald Trump lite trying to do whatever you Labour leaders don't want, so not sure we will be on same page for awhile.

 

[Dan54]

What's the go with the new variant, anyway? We know anything about it yet?

From what news saying , it appears to be one that is attacking a younger age group, and perhaps can see how it is eveolving as they got the least vaccinated around world?

 

[BDA]

'We don't know a lot about it': Health bosses monitoring Omicron outbreak as new travel ban comes into force

The federal government announces travel bans and new quarantine rules amid concerns about the new Omicron COVID-19 variant circulating in southern Africa.

www.abc.net.au

Borders closed to those countries.

I wasnt referring to any specific country. I was just referring to the inevitable spread of covid that we will be living with once international travel is back and mandatory quarantines are gone. The south african variant, and any other variants will eventually find their way to aus