Great day around here tomorrow. Rugby recorded when I wake and F1 in the afternoon. No wife to interrupt as she will be chased off by sports and watching a Housewives show in the den.

Now if my club can win their final season game today.....

haha, thanks guys.

It's interesting, All Blacks when they are winning they play a game of such precision, and execution of well planned maneuvers, but when they are out classed their game totally falls apart. VERY focused England guys.

England showed up ready to play. All Blacks looked flat.

Very interesting head game at the beginning where England did their best to surround the NZ Haka. They lost some confidence at the start and never recovered.

Set for next weekend. Not the most exciting match but hard fought by both sides. de Klerk is an amusing little badger whether WC or Premiership:)
Looking forward to the final next weekend. My money is on England.
Man, it is still dark here at 4:00 A.M.

Interesting- saw a post game conference where they asked the AB capt (Kieran Reid) if the England pregame Haka reply mattered. He said no.

Who's complaining about England?:eek:

. . .Haka is a war dance, right? . . .

the haka is a ceremonial invitation to challenge your opponents
I believe there are a number of variations of this including one that ends in a throat slitting motion
the Maori players do this to much better effect than the Anglo players
BD to clarify / confirm
the South Africans always have great fire power but the English have been playing very well over the last year
England to win by 5 points

cheers
Dennis :)

Ridiculous! No self respecting rugger would ever make such a complaint...well maybe a league rugger ;)

Seems silly to me. War dance to intimidate opposition? Refusing to be intimidated and forming a V demonstrating a lack of intimidation? Just gamesmanship.

As one of my favorite refs used to say, "Quit *****ing lads and play the game."

Looking forward to an England victory.

Yeah, something like that. I think it's just a publicity/marketing/signature thing. So everyone sees the haka and thinks New Zealand.

I never liked the haka until I saw an eight year old blonde girl doing it to impress her parents. It was pretty funny.

I've recently come back from Samoa and went to a few cultural evenings. I felt guilty that the other (random) kiwis and I didn't know the haka to get up and do a "reply" to their thing they do. It would have been a good laugh for all involved.

Cool that you took your mum on a holiday to NZ. Sadly I was robbed of that experience. I wanted to take my mum to England to visit her old school buddy.

NZ did look good today vs Wales. Very likely the last time the world stage sees several of them. I guess third place is still better than fourth place in the scheme of things.
Very much looking forward to the final early tomorrow morning. Being replayed on NBC later in the day but by then my pals will have spoiled things via texts and emails.

WOW, just WOW!!