You knew we would end up discussing the haka at some point during this week – Joe Marler just decided to get the conversation ...
And yet the greatest haka which I can remember was not a riposte or a reaction, but a welcome. Munster’s haka to the All Blacks in 2008 ... our team but at the same time we were wary of ...
Pre-game cultural challenges like the haka have sparked ongoing debate around their reception and appropriateness.
When it was time for the haka it seemed no different from any other and was very impressive. It was well choreographed and done with meaning and power." As the All Blacks completed their haka ...
The one performed and made famous by the All Blacks is the Ka Mate haka, which was composed by Ngati Toa Chieftain Te Rauparaha around 1820. Ka Mate was created in a time of conflict between two ...
The Thomond Park response to the Haka ahead of Munster v the All Blacks on Saturday evening was as epic as you might have ...