New Zealand Rugby boss Mark Robinson said an annual Test on Anzac Day between the All Blacks and the Wallabies would create “a real tradition”.
New Zealand Rugby boss Mark Robinson has confirmed the Kiwis are supportive of plans to launch an annual Bledisloe Cup clash on Anzac Day, with the fixture ideally locked in for a long period to build a “real tradition”.
Other codes have well-established club fixtures built around Anzac Day, but a Bledisloe Cup on the would be the first featuring Australian and New Zealand national teams.Rugby Australia were initially keen to stage the game next year but Robinson said that timeframe was too rushed, given the detail to be worked through on high-performance and commercial perspectives.
“So we need to be all understanding and comfortable with what that means across a long period of time. “If the calendar stays as it is, it would be the Anzac Bledisloe and then you’d two Bledisloes back-to-back later in the year,” Waugh said. After enduring a rocky relationship with Rugby Australia when provocative Hamish McLennan was chairman, Robinson said the relationship with RA under Waugh and new chair Daniel Herbert was “highly collaborative”.
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