If an All-Black refuses to do the Haka....

[taipan]

Like the vast majority of the Australian Rugby League team?

They save their energy for the main spectacle, as do the likes of Umaga with the ABs.You dont have to sing and not be committed to your country.

 

[taipan]

Advance Australia Fair has been sung in schools for over 20 years now.....no excuse..

gee a lot of emphasis on the national anthem,pity about the games.I have seen South Africans shut their eyes and not sing when their anthem is played,ditto the Yanks at the Super Bowl.Bit like going to funerals not everyone cries,people are different .

 

[Copa]

I just got thinking..... my section head is a Kiwi, mad All Blacks fan, bores us to tears with the continual repeating of stories about the good old days back in paradise (NZ) and aboout his plans to return to paradise one day...

He said the other day he is not really interested in the Haka after someone said that if only he was a good enough RU player he would have had the chance to perform the Haka on a world stage. He said "that stuff" is good to watch but had nothing to do with his family or background.

So.... I got wondering... what if someone didn't want to do it.

I asked him for more info..He moved to Oz, for the first time, when he was 8. Went back for a bit..spent some time living in both places as a young adult..but eventually settled here.

Says he is a proud kiwi .... and not interested in doing the haka as, like I said before, said he has had nothing to do with it..

 

[Tighthead]

They save their energy for the main spectacle

If they were going to expend so much energy by singing the anthem then perhaps they should be stretchered onto the field as well, in case they are too tired to start playing.

 

[Polynesian Warrior]

The Kiwi's league team must be saving alot of energy also . Because my sons under 11 team can do the Haka better than they do .

Hey Copa ! Is your mate a white male with ginger hair and was born in Christchurch or Invergargill and has a skinhead and wears jeans and black boots ?

 

[taipan]

If they were going to expend so much energy by singing the anthem then perhaps they should be stretchered onto the field as well, in case they are too tired to start playing.

It would appear that robust singing of the national anthem is the most important aspect of a test match,you are easily pleased.Then again we have the walltzing matilda encore,scary.

 

[taipan]

The Kiwi's league team must be saving alot of energy also . Because my sons under 11 team can do the Haka better than they do .

Hey Copa ! Is your mate a white male with ginger hair and was born in Christchurch or Invergargill and has a skinhead and wears jeans and black boots ?

Get your sons to teach them the Haka ,it or singing the national anthem well wont make any team play any better.
People pay to see a game not a national anthem(and I am not talking the Haka).
The oz national anthem has been changed once,and there is talk of maybe changing it again,so much for tradition.

 

[Copa]

The Kiwi's league team must be saving alot of energy also . Because my sons under 11 team can do the Haka better than they do .

Hey Copa ! Is your mate a white male with ginger hair and was born in Christchurch or Invergargill and has a skinhead and wears jeans and black boots ?

No... he is a well respected community member that has worked tirelessly at building a multicultural society. His job has taken him all over the world.

Is it so beyond you to think that maybe there are kiwis who can't relate to it? Especially those who went overseas at a young age but still consider themselves proud Kiwis?

 

[Te Kaha]

Thanks to the poly idiot this thread has deginerated.