France Fined for Advancing on Final Haka

[Rex Messup]

If the alldorks are allowed to puff and pant and make throat slitting gestures, I reckon teams should be allowed to advance toe to toe and sledge them

Dead set

[brokendown gunfighter]

The All Blacks traditionally only did the haka on overseas tours,not sure when they changed their policy
Weepu did his only bit of good work for the match during it

[GIGS20]

during the dance a mate and I agreed that the frogs probably passed a hat in the dressing sheds before the match.
Interestimgly, the allblacks response to the challenge included no maoris that I can recall and was lead by corey jane....the french won the match right there and craig joubert decided he needed to do something about it
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[slomo]

The haka is a joke now
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im with you on that one jono, its become a bit of a farce.

also interesting to note the IRB didnt fine the poms for ball tampering,

[Rex Messup]

I'm a fan of the old version. It was up beat, inspiring for both teams and enjoyable

The new haka is boring as hell and has unsporting undertones

Throat slitting takes the haka beyond a tradition of throwing down the challenge.

Teams should be allowed to give it right back to them. Standing eyeball to eyeball is empowering for both teams rather than letting one side get an advantage

The only rule should be no physical contact

If you have the minerals to advance on very large mouris performing a war dance and eyeball and sledge them, I say go hard

[sandgroperrugby]

im with you on that one jono, its become a bit of a farce.

also interesting to note the IRB didnt fine the poms for ball tampering,

Now that what I am talking about!!!

Blatant disregard for the rules and no punishment. However I bet if Johnny was using a non IRB approved brand kicking tee he would have been fined within an inch of his life .

[jono]

im with you on that one jono, its become a bit of a farce.

also interesting to note the IRB didnt fine the poms for ball tampering,

And yet 2 teams got 10k for a player wearing the wrong
Mouth guard.

Because what does this equal? (non)consistency
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[PerthGirl]

Interesting that we can no longer see the video of the Haka/french advance because if IRB copyright laws! How many of the All Blacks are Maoris anyway?

[Darren]

There's a new one in it's place (and backed up for posterity)

[The InnFORCEr]

Interesting that we can no longer see the video of the Haka/french advance because if IRB copyright laws! How many of the All Blacks are Maoris anyway?

I know only four of the 30 man RWC squad were born outside NZ and from what I can find the only ones to have played for the NZ Maori are Corey, Hosea and Wiri Peepu, but that is not to say that others in the squad are also Maori but have not been selected to play in that team as yet.

[blueandblack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=emJyEa4z2Ec

This is how is was done in 1973!!!! What a shambles!

how very Pythonesque

[Bails]

This is how the Haka was done in 1973 - what a shambles!!

[Happy]

awesome response by wales here

[jono]

Quick IRB! Make it reterospective!
Get another 10k... *shakes head*
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[Darren]

Haka 1973 - YouTube
This is how the Haka was done in 1973 - what a shambles!!

They did it facing the crowd rather than the opposition also ....