The Haka

[MajorRage]

This isn’t even a story. Robertson won’t care a bean.

[sparky]

@MajorRage said in The Haka:

This isn’t even a story. Robertson won’t care a bean.

The British tabloids will.

But yeah it's a nothing burger.

[taniwharugby]

I'd be more.surprised if we went on a NH tour and they didn't ask for it to be banned...well, more specifically it seems to be England.

That said, I still think we need to ditch one of the versions of our anthem or the haha...

[Bones]

@taniwharugby who gives a fuck about God anyway?

[nostrildamus]

The English are just angry they haven't thought of having a chariot ride at ferocious velocity around the stadium before the game by a 2000 year old militant femme in striking headgear.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Bones said in The Haka:

@taniwharugby who gives a fuck about God anyway?

The BTL comments in The Telegraph are a hoot. You should get in there and get stuck in on how God Save the King is a colonialist genocidal anthem which needs to be banned...

[sparky]

@Victor-Meldrew

The Haka, God Save The King and God Save New Zealand just aren't woke enough for 2024.

Come to think of it, neither is test match Rugby.

The entire game on Saturday should be scrapped and 80,000 in Twickenham should have a silent vigil instead to ponder the evils of colonialism. 😉

[nostrildamus]

@sparky said in The Haka:

@Victor-Meldrew

The Haka, God Save The King and God Save New Zealand just aren't woke enough for 2024.

Come to think of it, neither is test match Rugby.

The entire game on Saturday should be scrapped and 80,000 in Twickenham should have a silent vigil instead to ponder the evils of colonialism. 😉

Maybe we could save time and have a God Save The Haka mashup?

[nostrildamus]

Marler knows about banning and binning.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/64153235

[mikedogz]

[Billy Tell]

Yawn. Must be autumn international time again.

[sparky]

Joe Marler has re-emerged on X to say he was just having a bit of fun.

Maybe he should join Planet Rugby?

[MiketheSnow]

Done more to promote the fixture than the MSM tbf

[MajorRage]

@MiketheSnow said in The Haka:

Done more to promote the fixture than the MSM tbf

Indeed he has. Wrote yesterday that it was a very subdued build up, but suddenly it's everywhere.

well played Joe.

[nostrildamus]

@sparky said in The Haka:

Joe Marler has re-emerged on X to say he was just having a bit of fun.

Maybe he should join Planet Rugby?

Don't feed the troll!
<looks at picture of Marler>
Oi! Too late!

[sparky]

@nostrildamus

Maybe he'll get a reality TV gig out of it? Not Strictly or the Jungle but one of the Channel 5 ones.

[sparky]

Joe Marler has left the England camp for "personal reasons". Not that he was picked to play anyway.

[nostrildamus]

As long as he doesn't go on some half-naked survival camp and return with some form of tāmoko and a deeper appreciation of other cultures, then lectures across the country on the serious intergenerational harm of internet trolling.

[Frank]

Marler has always been a bit of an attention seeker. Considers himself quite the character.

[scribe]

Oliver Brown from The Telegraph picking up from where Marler left off:

Oct 29, 2024

The haka is overused and it is absurd to stand there and simply watch it

It is preposterous that opponents are supposed to be mute and reverential while 15 man mountains threaten to tear them to tiny pieces