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National Anthem

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For me the anthems are a chance to get the players suitably wound up for the forthcoming game. You can certainly sense in the Welsh a bubbling pride in being Welsh and the anthem stirs them to hit the ground running when the match starts. Much the same as the Haka does for the All Blacks.

Incidently, I'm really not a fan of this habit of having a female singer 'leading' the anthems, especially in Wales. This one from a few years back, proper Welsh male choir. Belting stuff. If you can't get up for the game after that.

YouTube - Welsh Anthem - Millenium Stadium
 
Bruce Wayne said:
For me the anthems are a chance to get the players suitably wound up for the forthcoming game. You can certainly sense in the Welsh a bubbling pride in being Welsh and the anthem stirs them to hit the ground running when the match starts. Much the same as the Haka does for the All Blacks.

Incidently, I'm really not a fan of this habit of having a female singer 'leading' the anthems, especially in Wales. This one from a few years back, proper Welsh male choir. Belting stuff. If you can't get up for the game after that.

YouTube - Welsh Anthem - Millenium Stadium
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They have Katherine jenkins.

katherine jenkins - Google Image Search

They win.

We have errrrm, nope, it's gone.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
She's a super looking lady and a decent enough singer, but not on the anthem at a rugby match. No, never please. You don't need a cheerleader, you've got 80,000 people there to sing.
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You deal with the 80,000. I will take care of this

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I remember singing rule Britannia at wembley in the 66 world cup final.that or land of hope and glory should be our anthem(y)
 
lukecrossland said:
Just watched England play the rugby and it was an ok game i guess (considering they were chasing an egg). But at the start, every single player sung the anthem with heart and soul.

During the england football game in spain, only 1 or 2 player sung our anthem. Why? I think its a major thing to play for your country and you should have some pride and sing as loud as you can. Fans love to see it. If i was in charge, if you didnt sing, you wouldnt play again!

Harsh or more pride needed?
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So you'd rather they only sang cause they didn't wanna lose their place rather than because its something they believed in?

If they wanna sing it its up to them, same if they don't wanna see it.

And if they can't raise themselves for a big game without singing an outdated song (to some people and possibly those not singing) then they shouldn't be in the team anyway.

I'd love to be regarded as one of the best players in my country so therefor being picked would mean a lot to me. Thats my opinion, maybe those who don't sing share it.
 
You can't deny that rituals like the Haka are incredibly motivational for the All Blacks though?

Even the French anthem has a certain battle cry to it and we all know what surrender monkey's they are.

Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts
To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows
What do they want this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings?
For whom these vile chains
These long-prepared irons?
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What methods must be taken?
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!
What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would cut down our warrior sons
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brow would yield under the yoke
The vile despots would have themselves be
The masters of destiny
Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward
Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you
Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors
Bear or hold back your blows
Spare these sad victims
That they regret taking up arms against us
But not these bloody despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who pitilessly
Ripped out their mothers' wombs
We too shall enlist
When our elders' time has come
To add to the list of deeds
Inscribed upon their tombs
We are much less jealous of surviving them
Than of sharing their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
Of avenging or joining them
Drive on sacred patriotism
Support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished liberty
Join the struggle with your defenders
Under our flags, let victory
Hurry to your manly tone
So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!
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the haka should be banned as a pre match ritual. new zealand has a national anthem in maori and also english. the haka that is performed is specific to one maori tribe and is disrespectful to other maori and also whites. it was performed against other tribes as well as the english, the words have a reference to us as white pigs.

we should form a firing squad and do a ready aim fire when they start that sh1t. obviously picking a team of sas instead of rugby players as there would be a biff-up for certain.
 

Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
the haka should be banned as a pre match ritual. new zealand has a national anthem in maori and also english. the haka that is performed is specific to one maori tribe and is disrespectful to other maori and also whites. it was performed against other tribes as well as the english, the words have a reference to us as white pigs.

we should form a firing squad and do a ready aim fire when they start that sh1t. obviously picking a team of sas instead of rugby players as there would be a biff-up for certain.
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I cant see any of that on the wikipedia entry for the Haka.

Haka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Haka of the All Blacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But what it does say is extremly pervy :

Kikiki kakaka kau ana! (stuttering, shaking and naked!)Kei waniwania taku tara (I'm brushed by your crotch)Kei tarawahia, kei te rua i te kerokero! (a cleft mound, a pulsating cavern!)He pounga rahui te uira ka rarapa; (Forbidden mysteries are revealed;)Ketekete kau ana to peru kairiri (banter and intimacy, your flushed face:)Mau au e koro e – Hi! Ha! (I'm caught in a trap)Ka wehi au ka matakana, (I'm scared but fully aroused.)Ko wai te tangata kia rere ure? (Who is this man with a thrusting shaft)Tirohanga ngā rua rerarera (investigating the hot moist depths,)Ngā rua kuri kakanui i raro! Aha ha! (the squirming pungent depths below?)
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deathbyropeandglass said:
I cant see any of that on the wikipedia entry for the Haka.

Haka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Haka of the All Blacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But what it does say is extremly pervy :
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That is an interesting translation.

I got this version when i looked it up;

'Am i going to die? Am i going to die? Or will i live? or will i live? this hairy man standing above me, will they help me see the light of day once more? Step, step, step, step [out of the hole the chief was hiding in] I have seen the sun again.'

I think it should be banned to be honest. Only because they take great offence if people don't stand around and look intimidated by it.

Nob off, they should all turn their backs to it and go in a huddle, whispering stuff about their wives.
 

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