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Mon 6 Aug 2012 | 05:22
The Chiefs victory wardance after their Super Rugby title win

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A look at the awesome Chiefs victory wardance (haka) after the 2012 Super Rugby final

Posted By: Grant Constable

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  • born_rugby
    6:51 PM 17/10/2013

    AWESOME !!!

  • rugby08
    3:49 PM 08/08/2012

    It's all for the TV boys...

  • 12:44 AM 08/08/2012

    Don't be so bloody sour, morgy. Why shouldn't they be allowed to do their dance? It's tradition, and it ads to the spectacle. Anthems are a tradition too, no? You think test players would forget they were playing for their countries or that spectators would not know which nations were playing without the anthems? I love hearing the french anthem, same goes for the scotish and welsh.

    And as for the haka (and cipi tau and all the other wardances), they are one hell of a show. As a portuguese and a rugby player myself, I got to know some of the portuguese 2007 campaigners that played for my club and they are all unanimous in saying that facing the haka was one of the best moments of their careers and that it fired them up almost as much as it does the kiwis. Who hasn't heard a tape of the haka as a warm up to a match? Just because one has grown sour with time and stoped apreciating the magic in rugby (be it on or off the padock), probably because you've grown acustomed to them doens't mean that all those little moments aren't great.

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