Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Haka drama is back - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

The Haka drama is back today, isn't it?

Because Joe Marler has now backtracked completely on what he said and has apologised for it and specifically has apologised to New Zealand fans for, in his words, “my poorly articulated tweet earlier in the week, I meant no malice New Zealand”.

What have you done?

Are we honestly that sensitive about the haka that we can't handle it when a rugby prop - not known as the brains of the bunch -criticises the haka in a silly little social media post on X.

Can we really not handle this?

What did we do to him? What did we do? Did we bombard him on Twitter?

Because I feel like that's what happened here and that's why he deleted his Twitter account for a while, isn't it?

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