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Super Rugby create bushfire smoke policy as Canberra temperatures set to surpass 40 degrees
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Super Rugby has created safety guidelines around air quality as bushfires burn near Canberra just two days before the Brumbies kick off their season.
Officials will monitor the air quality index and real-time measurement of particular matter levels at Canberra Stadium on Friday when temperatures are forecast to hit 41 degrees.
The Brumbies moved their preseason to Newcastle for 10 days earlier this month after bushfire smoke blanketed the national capital and made training unsafe.
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There are currently out-of-control bushfires burning in the ACT's Namadgi National Park and within just five kilometres of residents.
Big Bash League, W-League and WNBL matches have all been abandoned in Canberra this summer due to bushfire smoke.
Super Rugby officials emphasised player welfare is the priority and they will not be putting their health at risk.
"It has been an extraordinary summer in Australia to date and we deeply sympathise with all those individuals and communities who have been impacted by the bushfires," SANZAAR boss Andy Marinos said in a statement.
"Naturally, the continued welfare of our players and indeed spectators is a priority for us should such incidents continue to affect the Australian landscape.
"It is therefore prudent of us to put in place these guidelines with our stakeholders."
- AAP
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Turn it up. Give me your john A game would ya!
Go to commentsI didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.
What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.
Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.
There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..
and..
I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍
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