Team Australia

[peterivanac]

Well, about the only good thing I can see about the revised AC48 rule is that Team Australia is back which is really what our country needs. Go Aussies.

http://team-australia.americascup.com/en/home.html

 

[PeterHuston]

Well, about the only good thing I can see about the revised AC48 rule is that Team Australia is back which is really what our country needs. Go Aussies.

http://team-australia.americascup.com/en/home.html

And you come to this conclusion based on what new information?

 

[kiwi_jon]

Well, about the only good thing I can see about the revised AC48 rule is that Team Australia is back which is really what our country needs. Go Aussies.

http://team-australia.americascup.com/en/home.html

With what? They sold their AC45 to TNZ.

Sorry to disappoint you but that website hasn't been updated since last year and really should be taken down as Team Oz doesn't exist anymore.

 

[floater]

Well, about the only good thing I can see about the revised AC48 rule is that Team Australia is back which is really what our country needs. Go Aussies.

http://team-australia.americascup.com/en/home.html

With what? They sold their AC45 to TNZ.

Then TNZ put it on a boat to Italy.

 

[kiwi_jon]

^ Nope, TNZ put their original modified AC45F on a ship to Europe.

 

[darth reapius]

The background on their page actually says "2017 Australia Gets Back in the Ring"
They're back?
Or that means that they're back from years ago, and they've dropped out but haven't updated they're page to say they pulled out not long ago.

 

[dogwatch]

Oh FFS. Look at the date the last story was updated.

 

[alphafb552]

Oh FFS. Look at the date the last story was updated.

And if you really want to be sure, check their Twitter account... more like a Cricket account for the last year almost...

 

[Kia Ora]

Their lastest update on facebook is July 2014

https://www.facebook.com/TeamAus35?_rdr

Sadly, I don't think they are in.

Would have been great to have the semi-finals between NZ and Oz.

 

[floater]

Oh FFS. Look at the date the last story was updated.

That's right. The most recent story under the News heading, is:
"Team Australia Withdraws from Cup"

....dated last July.

 

[peterivanac]

Aw. Crap.

Thought I say something somewhere else too. See if I can find it.

 

[peterivanac]

Naw, you right. They out.

I thought it means BACK in the ring, but no.

Well in that case the whole thing sucks balls.

 

[darth reapius]

So then was Team Australia a poodle for Oracle to set-up the rules the way Oracle wanted?

If they thought they actually were a possible challenger of record before, they should easily be at least a challenger now!

 

[barfy]

with IM working for the man they should at least rate a 45f and design collaboration...

 

[Third reef grin]

with IM working for the man they should at least rate a 45f and design collaboration...

I thought those clowns sold their 45 to ETNZ?

 

[floater]

Then those clowns shipped it off to Italy.

I can't decide which is funnier: bolting foils on a boat not designed to foil - or doing so for a race that doesn't matter with a host that isn't taking part.

Or, perhaps I got it mixed up with the enigmatic Boat 4 that recently surfaced in France?

 

[NZL3481]

So then was Team Australia a poodle for Oracle to set-up the rules the way Oracle wanted?

If they thought they actually were a possible challenger of record before, they should easily be at least a challenger now!

Maybe the Oatleys could see OR and ACEA that they couldn't organise a shitfight at a sewerage treatment plant and thought; 'Lets get out of this clusterfuck before it costs us some serious money'. They've created billion dollar empires because they're pretty smart operators.

 

[SCARECROW]

I think when they challenged the Oatleys thought at least a few of the Aussie Olympians they'd subsidised/sponsored onto the gold medal podium would jump ship and join them out of loyalty/national pride.

 

[edouard]

So then was Team Australia a poodle for Oracle to set-up the rules the way Oracle wanted?

If they thought they actually were a possible challenger of record before, they should easily be at least a challenger now!

Maybe the Oatleys could see OR and ACEA that they couldn't organise a shitfight at a sewerage treatment plant and thought; 'Lets get out of this clusterfuck before it costs us some serious money'. They've created billion dollar empires because they're pretty smart operators.

If they really were so smart they would have pulled out before signing a protocol not after. It took them ages to get that protocol done and by then it should have been pretty obvious they simply weren't in the same league. The whole thing smells much more like sheer incompetence than smarts.