This Is Shame! This Is Shame!
Brendan Gallagher reports this morning in the Telegraph that it was the All Blacks themselves who refused to do the Haka at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday; Brian Moore blames the WRU for demanding that they could sing their anthem last.
I was taught the Pacific Islands Haka by Fijian players John Kama and Mick Saku when I went out for my father's army side, The Hameln Saracens [popularly known as The Drowning Rats]. The current Pacific Islands tourists made their own war-dance challenge to the Irish on Sunday, but it didn't save them.
The cliched advice repeated to us as young players - take your game to them, eyes on the ball, give it to the extra man - never stops being true. Unfortunately both the All Blacks and the WRU have forgotten the one about the difference between winning and taking part. I say a plague on both your houses. Your marketing money, your childishness and your lack of decent manners have spoilt the game. My game.
Andrew Mishmash
3 comments:
i was reading about this in the paper on the plane today and made a note to comment on your previous post to correct you but by the time i got round to it (its late) you had posted this !
good coverage !
I have to agree on the bad manners - but then my home country's manners are nothing to write home about unless you are writing a book on bad sportsmanship...
Oh yes - it's all too easy to love the saffies now, with their springbok bar and their optimism about the FIFA world cup...
Northern rugby fans remember only that the "99" call was invented in SA; by an irishman and a scotsman, to protect a welshman.
Have a good St Andrew's Day
Drew, in kilt but not skean dhu.
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