Oh boohoo Australia.

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Marc Hinton in BrisbaneWallabies rugby coach John Connolly has issued an impassioned plea for the All Blacks to drop their new haka because of what he believes is a "murderous" message it sends out to the watching millions.

More: http://xtramsn.co.nz/rugby/0,,12428-6097403,00.html

Is the world becoming more pathetic or is it just me? :whocares:

[ManDownUnder]

Send Jerry Collins over to piss on their boots instead you reckon...?

[Lou Girardin]

Well it's a bloody embarrassment. The tossers will do a haka at the opening of an envelope.

[Colapop]

The haka - any haka - is a challenge. I like the new haka Kapa'o'pango - - it'll be some time before anyone can learn that and plaguerise it around the world. One haka for marketing and one for a challenge....

[sAsLEX]

Hopefully they do the new one on sat night to put salt in the wound!

[98tls]

HA...this from a nation whos forefathers were muderers,rapists and thieves.

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Hopefully they do the new one on sat night to put salt in the wound!

Blimmin softcocks that have to get upset about a haka, I like it, but like the fact that people are getting pissy about it more...:nya:

[GR81]

we dont like waltzing matilda, so piss off! haha

[Deano]

Where did the thumb across the throat originate anyway ?

Was it in original authentic Maori haka ?

If not, did they get permission to use it ?

[98tls]

Where did the thumb across the throat originate anyway ?

Was it in original authentic Maori haka ?

If not, did they get permission to use it ? yea.....Aunty Helen gave them permisson.....in fact wouldnt be surprised if she gave it to them full stop.

[SPman]

Where did the thumb across the throat originate anyway ?

Was it in original authentic Maori haka ?

If not, did they get permission to use it ?
There is no, one,"authentic" haka.
Te Rauparahas haka which everyone is familiar with is just one of hundreds.
Good on the blacks for devising one of their own!

[Flatcap]

Send Jerry Collins over to piss on their boots instead you reckon...?


...followed by a quick bash over the head with a handbag...

[ManDownUnder]

...followed by a quick bash over the head with a handbag...

YEAH Now you're talkin!

[sAsLEX]

...followed by a quick bash over the head with a handbag...

better than the armoured forearms the SA's like to play with these days

[GR81]

better than the armoured forearms the SA's like to play with these days
i bet Matfield could hit collins on the head with his armour plated shield and jerry would just keep on truckin! haha
or piss himself where he stands.
either or! haha

[Swoop]

The haka is a nice little dance, but the scottish should do a crossed swords dance and the Ozzies should do a drunken dance as well.
haka... pfffft!

[sAsLEX]

i bet Matfield could hit collins on the head with his armour plated shield and jerry would just keep on truckin! haha
or piss himself where he stands.
either or! haha

like old weepu playing on after getting hit on the head by that dudes hip/knee what ever it was a while back

[Colapop]

Those f*cken things should be banned properly. They're starting to appear in club rugby now. I asked Rob Cashman, a physio for a couple of NZ teams (notably Softball) and he cannot see any benefit from having a forearm strapped like that other than to protect from prior bruising.

[GR81]

Those f*cken things should be banned properly. They're starting to appear in club rugby now. I asked Rob Cashman, a physio for a couple of NZ teams (notably Softball) and he cannot see any benefit from having a forearm strapped like that other than to protect from prior bruising.
dont be stupid! it's clear what they are for... cladding with metal and running forearm first... any SA will tell you! just ask Sniper~! :D

[Colapop]

What's the game coming to when you have to run a metal detector over the players before they take the feild? Any given sunday....

[Blackbird]

I'm surprised that the new haka is acceptable to Auntie Helen and her lesbian sidekicks. Thought that Morris dancing would have been more politically correct.

[Colapop]

Shouldn't that be Maurice dancing...?

[Skyryder]

Marc Hinton in BrisbaneWallabies rugby coach John Connolly has issued an impassioned plea for the All Blacks to drop their new haka because of what he believes is a "murderous" message it sends out to the watching millions.

More: http://xtramsn.co.nz/rugby/0,,12428-6097403,00.html

Is the world becoming more pathetic or is it just me? :whocares:

Well if it was up to me I'd be giving them the brown eye. That has the same meaning in all cultures.

Skyryder

[Deano]

There is no, one,"authentic" haka.


I mean't haka as in plural - but that may be incorrect ? I dunno.

[Oakie]

we dont like waltzing matilda, so piss off! haha

And correct me if I'm wrong but that's a song about a sheep thief isn't it?

[GR81]

And correct me if I'm wrong but that's a song about a sheep thief isn't it?
sheep shagging ozzies i think!

[Waylander]

I like the new haka because they actually do it with a bit of passion. Ka Mate was getting a bit old and they really didn't get into it. Wich may be why the aussies don't like the new one. It scares them again lol.

[inlinefour]

Well if it was up to me I'd be giving them the brown eye. That has the same meaning in all cultures.

Skyryder

Your keen, I think Id rather have the Haka than a bunch of Australians commenting on how nice ya arse is....:gob:

[Waylander]

I'm more worried that YOU think his arse is nice.....:gob:

[dnos]

pansies!!!!

[inlinefour]

I'm more worried that YOU think his arse is nice.....:gob:

go back to canada....:bye:

[Skyryder]

I'm more worried that YOU think his arse is nice.....:gob:

So am I.

Skyryder

[Drum]

The aussie coach is right about one thing.

Someones gonna get hurt.
And theyre gonna be wearing gold. Thats Australian gold my friend!

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Aussie got their just desserts IMO. All this whinging about the haka, they took their eye off the game and got beaten fair and square...

[Drum]

Damn straight.

Fair effort though.

[Waylander]

AH FUCK!!! Too busy looking at custom bits online and forgot all about the damn game!!

[Colapop]

It was a damn good game too. No chance to cry about the ref (who did a fairly good job - only missed a couple), they can't cry about Richie 'cheating' (the ref was on his ass like white on rice) and they can't cery about the haka (Coz it was Ka Mate).
The thing that I will moan about is the Australian team warming up after the national anthems etc. Not because it was disrespectful to the haka or anthems but because the game is scheduled to kick at a ceertain time. If club teams piss around in the sheds too much the ref will start the game with a penalty. Why was that not applied last night?

[Dafe]

That new haka is great, the throat cut move is hilarious!

But it isn't adequate. A challenge on a rugby field should remain that.

Don't be disrespectful to the opposition by gesturing such offensive threats.
If the throat cutting was removed, I think that haka would be far more respectable and as a reulst, enjoyed by more than just New Zealanders.

[Colapop]

I gotta agree. I like the new haka but the final gesture could be taken the wrong way, especially if you put it into the context of expanding the game globally. I think they should remove it but quietly and not at anyone's insistence.

[sAsLEX]

If the throat cutting was removed, I think that haka would be far more respectable and as a reulst, enjoyed by more than just New Zealanders.

So change our culture to make it more acceptable to the world public, does that mean it is still our culture or have we gone that PC these days that non conforming cultures are to be censored?