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What do you think about the Welsh demanding the All Blacks perform the haka before the Welsh National Anthem?

I think it stinks!
National Anthem for National Anthem..that works. But’ oh p-lease, don’t insult a call to battle, just before the battle, with a display of tuneful harmonies & gentle swaying!
I’m sick of the Rugby Unions of other nations trying to quash the NZ tradition of performing the haka.
The haka is a blood rousing start to a match.
Instead of preventing it, why don’t the other rugby nations use their imaginations & drawn on their greater historic wealth to come up with a challenge of their own? Something like the scene from Braveheart when the Scots ‘moon / brown-eye’ the Poms perhaps? A Hutu or Tutsi war dance would be awesome to see!
Let’s face it, when charging in for the ‘kill’ “Hen Wlad fy Nhadau”, “God Save The Queen”, “Flower of Scotland”, “Soldiers Song”, “Advance Australia Fair”, “Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika”, or “Marcha de la Patria” hardly do the trick when you want to pump some serious adrenaline!

This whole business is firing up war of words!
The haka is a great rugby tradition, but in every ground all over the world, the home team always has the last say before KO, IE they sing their anthem last! So why should the Nz have it different? They would not like it in their own back yard to be told wot to do! The WRU told NZRU in October that the haka would be preformed in between the two anthems! The AB’s then changed their mind on Saturday!
Maybe “Hen Wlad Fy’n Nhadau” may not pump adrenaline, but it sure as hell, fires the passion!

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