All Blacks v Kangaroos

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Cameron
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...r ... ed52862796

TOP-LEVEL plans are advancing for a historic $50 million hybrid game between Australia’s world champion Kangaroos and New Zealand’s World Cup-winning All Blacks.

The Daily Telegraph has been told the match could be played in Tokyo, Japan, with each team to receive a massive $10m each.

That equates to nearly $600,000 for each player who plays in the one-off extravaganza.

The All Blacks have shown preliminary interest and given organisers a window to play the game — between two to four weeks after the 2019 rugby union World Cup in Japan.

he match would attract extraordinary commercial interest and television ratings.

Organisers have already started discussing some of the mouth-watering match-ups — Michael Morgan v Beauden Barrett, Sonny Bill Williams v Josh Dugan, Billy Slater v Damian McKenzie, Cooper Cronk v Aaron Smith, Kieran Read v Wade Graham, Boyd Cordner v Samuel Whitelock. Even coaches Mal Meninga against Steve Hansen.

Hybrid Rugby chairman Phil Franks has met with NZRU chief strategy and operations officer, Nigel Cass, in Wellington to discuss the proposal. Franks has also spoken personally to Grant.

Canterbury Crusaders CEO Hamish Riach contacted Franks describing a hybrid game as “intriguing”.

Another hybrid match will be announced within the next few weeks — adding more weight to proposed the Kangaroos-All Blacks game.

Franks and Hybrid director, the legendary Mark Ella, plan to visit Japan next month to try and secure further funding for the match.
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I attended the match in 1996 at Twickenham in London between Wigan (RL) and Bath (RU).
This game was played under Rugby Union rules. Bath won 44 - 19 over their Rugby League counterparts.
Attendance was 42000.

However, 2 weeks earlier, Wigan also played against Bath, at Maine Rd, Manchester. (Manchester City's previous home ground) The crowd was 20000, and this game was played completely under RL rules.
Wigan won 82-6. It was 52-0 at half time. Martin Offiah scored 6 tries in the game. lol
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they announce this every year an nothing ever happens
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Stupid idea. Under the current proposed rules it favours union massively.
The main issue is that when the attacking team is in it's defensive half the rules are essentially League. In their attacking half, Union rules. That means that the union boys get all the advantages of the ruck and the breakdown which they train for every day, and that's a huge difference.
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We could always play Josh Ado-Carr and score all our tries from our own half.
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