Australia All Black Haka
Rugby Pre-game?
Does anyone know of any other pregame rituals that rugby teams do. I know the The All Blacks Haka and Whatever Tonga does and i know there are more teams that do that sort of thing but i dont know who does and i want to see what they’re like and if they can live up to the Haka.
Which do people like more, the old or new Haka?
(And by the way, in my other question for those of you who’ve read it, i do know that New Zealand is it’s own country and they are not affiliated to Australia in any way — i was just trying to give people who dont know it some type of perspective about where to locate it.)
Before a game we do very little indeed, a warm up usually consists of turning the car heating up on the way to the game.
We do however a half time ritual consisting of a bottle of Port. The other week we had some very nice Welsh blue cheese too.
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