So You Can't Challenge The Haka Now? Perlease!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/50229807
Why are the rugby authorities so desperate to protect the All Blacks? Good job we wiped the floor with them in the game.

[ichkeria]

The haka:
Other New Zealand sports teams do versions of one.
Other Pacific island rugby teams have long had their own war dances: Tongs once performed their Sipi Tau before a World Cup game v New Zealand in 2003 before the All Blacks had finished the haka.
There have been many confrontations over the years.
Munster’s New Zealand contingent once performed their own before a Munster All Blacks game.

[steg]

Scotland’s response to the Haka https://youtu.be/NaJSGky4F4U

It called the ‘boaby’

[ToraToraTora]

retro: " I thought the rules of the game started with the referee's first whistle." - there are no rules in rugby, there are laws. The "rules" are the rules of the competition, the haka is not mentioned in the laws.

[ToraToraTora]

steg, hilarious, similar to the first foot and mouth:

[New Judge]

Quite why this ridiculous nonsense has been allowed to prevail beats me. The best thing opponents of NZ can do is quietly leave the field before it begins and ask the referee to give them a shout when the antipodean buffoons are ready to start playing.

[pixie374]

I think it's a harmless enough tradition... and I agree the best response would be a Morris dance, highland fling or riverdance. Not sure about the Welsh... a formation of a sheep? :-)

[vulcan42]

Who needs a ball.

[jim360]

It seems to me that this is one of those stupid technicalities that everybody is kind of embarrassed about. As the report itself makes clear, the All-Blacks themselves weren't fussed, and perhaps because World Rugby knows this is a little silly the money is going to charity.

[spathiphyllum]

Not only is the haka used to intimidate opponents but also to unite the team doing the haka.