Duco Statement re All Blacks participation

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DUCO EVENTS STATEMENT RE PLAYER SELECTIONS FOR BRISBANE GLOBAL RUGBY TENS

Please attribute the following to Duco Australia chief executive Rachael Carroll

Duco Events is surprised by the comments reported in the media regarding the player makeup of the New Zealand teams that will contest the Brisbane Global Rugby Tens.

We have received the provisional squads from competing teams and can confirm that those submitted by the New Zealand Super clubs contain ten players who participated in last year’s All Blacks end of season European tour – including the tournament’s contracted ambassadors.

These players have indicated a strong desire to play in the tournament, and their Super Rugby clubs have selected them. These selections are now subject to ratification by New Zealand Rugby.

We are negotiating with New Zealand Rugby in good faith to confirm these selections.

We have also received the provisional squads for the participating Australian Super Rugby clubs. These extremely strong squads contain well in excess of 20 Wallabies, and many stars of the future.

Final squads from all participating teams are due to be confirmed until early next month. Across the board these will contain a large number of current international rugby stars.

The Brisbane Global Rugby Tens will be a tremendous celebration of rugby involving many of the game’s most exciting players.

ENDS

BRISBANE GLOBAL RUGBY TENS - AT A GLANCE
· Ten Australian and New Zealand Super Rugby clubs and four elite invitational teams will compete (in 2017 the event will feature Toulon, the Bulls, Samoa and the Panasonic Wild Knights)
· Ten-players-per-side, ten-minutes-per-half, knockout tournament
· Culmination of a week-long festival of rugby
· 16 hours of compelling live rugby, featuring 28 matches played over two days
· Broadcast live across Australia, New Zealand, UK, Japan, Africa, France and other major international markets
· Held annually on the second weekend of February, two weeks prior to the start of the Super Rugby season, at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
· Launches the rugby season in Australia and New Zealand
· Sanctioned by the Australian Rugby Union and New Zealand Rugby

BRISBANE GLOBAL RUGBY TENS RULES
· The rules of the Brisbane Global Tens are based on World Rugby’s official rugby tens rules
· Essentially a hybrid of the traditional 15-a-side game and rugby sevens, the objective is to promote free-flowing and fast paced rugby, while still retaining the physical intensity and enthralling forward and backline play that rugby fans love
· Ten players per team on field, with unlimited interchanges
· Ten minute halves, two-minute half-time
· Knockout matches drawn after regulation are continued into extra time, in multiple five-minute periods
· All conversion attempts must be drop-kicked
· Conversions must be taken within 40 seconds of scoring a try
· Five player scrums
· Scoring team kicks off
· Yellow cards net a three-minute suspension
· Referees rule on advantage quickly (where one play usually ends advantage)

TICKET INFORMATION
· For ticketing information visit the official Brisbane Global Rugby Tens website www.brisbaneglobaltens.com or http://www.ticketek.com.au/BrisbaneTens
· For official travel packages from outside of Brisbane to the Brisbane Global Tens visit https://sportsnetholidays.com/events/rugby/brisbane-global-tens-2017/

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