Thread: Time for the gay All Black to man up like Gareth Thomas........

My god do you think I am as thick as you are coming across? Swing Low, the slave song, is a song with actions sung by many a drunk Rugby team for decades. It was sung at Twickers by a large crowd in 1988 celebrating Oti's tries.

And yes, the new haka is a PR stunt; no tradition in that at all. I have a shirt older than this "traditional" haka.

Google is obviously not your friend...or you don't know how to use it to educate yourself.

^Good try but no cigar.You will have to do better than that me laddie.....

Time to kick the all blacks out of world rugby. They are getting to big for their boots.

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

^Good try but no cigar.You will have to do better than that me laddie.....

Wtf?

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" has been sung by rugby players and fans for some decades,[3] but became associated with the English national side, in particular, in 1988. Coming into the last match of the 1988 season, against Ireland at Twickenham, England had lost 15 of their previous 23 matches in the Five Nations Championship. The Twickenham crowd had only seen one solitary England try in the previous two years and at half time against Ireland they were 0–3 down. However during the second half England scored six tries to give them a 35–3 win. Three of the tries came in quick succession from Chris Oti, a black player making his Twickenham debut. A group from the Benedictine school Douai started to sing a rugby club favourite – the gospel hymn "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – in honour of their new hero, large sections of the crowd joined in. The song is still regularly sung at matches by supporters.[3][4][5] There are associated gestures, sometimes used in a drinking game, which requires those who wrongly perform the gestures to buy a round of drinks.[6][7]

Look, all this tradition or not is pointless. The reality is that the AB's, by playing this card get two cracks at firing themselves and the crowd up vs one (the anthem) for most other teams.
And one of them is a screaming nancy cum guzzler.

Originally Posted by Necron99

The reality is that the AB's, by playing this card get two cracks at firing themselves and the crowd up vs one (the anthem) for most other teams

However, most teams accept that the haka is part of rugby's heritage and face up to the All Blacks during its performance, with both teams standing about 10 metres apart. The 2007 Portuguese Rugby team Captain Vasco Uva said of the haka that "[We] faced it, gave it the respect it deserved and it gave us motivation and we knew if it gave them strength, it was also a point of strength for us." [14]

Portuguese are obviously made of sterner stuff.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by Necron99

The reality is that the AB's, by playing this card get two cracks at firing themselves and the crowd up vs one (the anthem) for most other teams

However, most teams accept that the haka is part of rugby's heritage and face up to the All Blacks during its performance, with both teams standing about 10 metres apart. The 2007 Portuguese Rugby team Captain Vasco Uva said of the haka that "[We] faced it, gave it the respect it deserved and it gave us motivation and we knew if it gave them strength, it was also a point of strength for us." [14]

Portuguese are obviously made of sterner stuff.

Or daft enough to buy into it.

Well end of the day it's quite simple really, the haka is a unique part of rugby and it's not going anywhere.

I also maintain that the reason it's singled-out for anxious hand-wringing and plaintive cries of foul, particularly in the NH, is because their teams lose so regularly to the All Blacks.

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

Originally Posted by pseudolus

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" has been sung by rugby players and fans for some decades,[3] but became associated with the English national side, in particular, in 1988. Coming into the last match of the 1988 season, against Ireland at Twickenham, England had lost 15 of their previous 23 matches in the Five Nations Championship. The Twickenham crowd had only seen one solitary England try in the previous two years and at half time against Ireland they were 0–3 down. However during the second half England scored six tries to give them a 35–3 win. Three of the tries came in quick succession from Chris Oti, a black player making his Twickenham debut. A group from the Benedictine school Douai started to sing a rugby club favourite – the gospel hymn "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – in honour of their new hero, large sections of the crowd joined in. The song is still regularly sung at matches by supporters.[3][4][5] There are associated gestures, sometimes used in a drinking game, which requires those who wrongly perform the gestures to buy a round of drinks.[6][7]

Pffft.........

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime before 1862. He was inspired by the Red River, which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah's being taken to heaven by a chariot (2 Kings 2:11). Many sources claim that this song and "Steal Away" (also composed by Willis) had lyrics that referred to the Underground Railroad, the resistance movement that helped slaves escape from the South to the North and Canada.
Alexander Reid, a minister at the Old Spencer Academy, Choctaw boarding school, heard Willis singing these two songs and transcribed the words and melodies. He sent the music to the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Jubilee Singers popularized the songs during a tour of the United States and Europe.
The song enjoyed a resurgence during the 1960s Civil Rights struggle and the folk revival; it was performed by a number of artists. Perhaps the most famous performance during this period was that by Joan Baez during the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival.
Oklahoma State Senator, Judy Eason McIntyre from Tulsa, Oklahoma proposed a bill nominating "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as the Oklahoma State official gospel song in 2011.

Yep, very traditional English Song.Decades you say.Well I never....[/QUOTE]

OK - So you are thick.

I never said it is not a slave song. RUGBY CLUBS in England sing a vast range of songs when drunk. One of them is Swing Low which has, childishly, various arm movements for each word in the chorus. Has been sung for as long as I can remember; which is decades, and must have been before that. You realise this is talking about Rugby I take it? Repeat - I am talking about its use in Rugby, not in general.

I expect this type of shit on TV, but over here? Dear me.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Well end of the day it's quite simple really, the haka is a unique part of rugby and it's not going anywhere.

I also maintain that the reason it's singled-out for anxious hand-wringing and plaintive cries of foul, particularly in the NH, is because their teams lose so regularly to the All Blacks.

Well maybe not - The chief defender Mick Miller is gone now of course, and in his place, an Aussie who is on record as saying it should not give NZ advantage.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

OK - So you are thick.

I never said it is not a slave song. RUGBY CLUBS in England sing a vast range of songs when drunk. One of them is Swing Low which has, childishly, various arm movements for each word in the chorus. Has been sung for as long as I can remember; which is decades, and must have been before that. You realise this is talking about Rugby I take it? Repeat - I am talking about its use in Rugby, not in general.

I expect this type of shit on TV, but over here? Dear me.

Dear me indeed.

Decades...wow! Ever since you can remember...fcuking double wow! and.... you have drinking games with it.Oh you Public school boys are a bunch of wags...What history...what nostalgia!

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Well end of the day it's quite simple really, the haka is a unique part of rugby and it's not going anywhere.

I also maintain that the reason it's singled-out for anxious hand-wringing and plaintive cries of foul, particularly in the NH, is because their teams lose so regularly to the All Blacks.

Then you should give up your anthem.

^ I agree with that....it's as boring as pus.

I agree, NZ anthem sucks balls I'd gladly dispense with it.

Actually its only saving grace is that it's marginally less shit than 'Advance Australia Fair': "Girt by sea"!? WTF!?

Deathly boring sport with little fan turnout.

I think you're looking for the baseball thread, snubby.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I agree, NZ anthem sucks balls I'd gladly dispense with it.

Actually its only saving grace is that it's marginally less shit than 'Advance Australia Fair': "Girt by sea"!? WTF!?

Girt. ..That's why we want Matilda.
(And no one knows the words to AAF. Even that gay Peter Allen song would be better.)

Actually thinking about it now the only anthem I find vaguely pleasant is the South African one. I may only understand the one verse from five but it's a pretty impressive blending of languages.

I quite like the Kiwi Anthem

It has the word "shafts" in it. nice.

Saffa one is too long. About 32 minutes I seem to recall. The Taff's one is quality; God save the Queen.

Froggie one is the best.Good tune and death...

Nah - best one is the Italian one

Rip roaring all the way through.

^Google translate tells me that the words are: "Fuck it, let's get this out of the way as quickly as possible".

The Russian anthem is a wonderful piece of music. The UK anthem should be buried never to return.

Irish one is the best.

Sounds like something you could sing even if you were comatose drunk.