On Links and Hakas

Check out the link at right for The Haka -a website with rugby news, articles and links and dedicated to coverage of the All Blacks, Super 12, NPC, and Tri-Nations, which, I am learning, are Rugby clubs in New Zealand. The other links at right are good sites for checking out rugby union rules. Did you know the game Midd plays is called "Rugby Union"?

From the Haka site here is a sampling of one the more 'PC' pieces of writing where the author was on a bit of a rant about some recent uniform change being tested by the referees:

"Luckily the ref was Lyndon Bray, who is a fairly imposing sort of bloke. Smaller, yappier refs might just get laughed at by the players in future fixtures. The costume just looks bloody stupid, and the NZRFU needs to dump 'em and get down to the local Canterbury Clothing shop smartly to pick up some shorts, socks and jerseys which look like they're actually designed to be on a footy field, instead of inside a harem."

Spirited, unbiased and fair-minded writing. (Hah!) My kind of site.
Evidently the All Blacks team performs a memorable Haka before each of their matches. It ain't just a Vermont thing. (It actually never was a Vermont thing...)