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# Way too good
I guess a lot of people are Kiwi today. It was an awful game from the Wallabies. The telling statistic, nevermind the score, was the turnovers – the All Blacks didn’t turn the ball over a single time.
The Wallabies are probably third or fourth behind New Zealand and France. I couldn’t compare France because I don’t seem them play often, but New Zealand aren’t just better than Australia, they are orders of magnitude better. I hope England in the World Cup group with the Kiwis, because the chariot can swing as low as it likes, it won’t stop England getting destroyed. And after all it doesn’t matter if Australia doesn’t win the cup, just so long as England doesn’t either.
All week leading up to the game there was a lot of old tosh about the haka. The new haka, I mean, the one with the throat-slitting action at the end. You can split the debate into a few camps. There were the wishy-washy New Zealanders who were genuinely concerned about the image it presented. I don’t care what they think, the new haka is intimidating as get out, even without Umanga who performed it out and out scarily – about the 1:10 mark in the video above is the point that chills my spine every time. Then there is the Australian media who can be ignored because they are ratings-chasing shitheads. Lastly there is the Australian rugby establishment who are trying to wind up the All Blacks.
I wish people would stop trying to counter-act the bloody haka. You can’t. Nothing you do can wind them up, it just makes them angrier and better. That goes for the silly debates on whether the throat-slitting part of the new haka is “inappropriate” as much as it does for turning your back on the performance or the latest bit of idiocy, having a training session on the field after the haka. Dopey.
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# re: Way too good
Come on you gotta give the Wallabies some credit at least they improved this time.. the first game at Christchurch was shameful..
Why counter the haka? The only thing they can do that would amuse me is to replicate the Bundi ad with the polar bear and the BBQs
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