Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Haka drama is back

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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the Hucker drama is back today, isn't it? Because
Joe Marhler has now backtracked completely on what he said
and has apologized for it, and specifically has apologized to
New Zealand fans for in his words, mine excuse me,
my poorly articulated tweet earlier in the week, I meant
no malice New Zealand. What have you done? Are we

(00:23):
honestly that sensitive about the hucker that we can't handle it?
When a rugby prop right not known as the brains
of the bunch, a Rugby prop criticizes the hacker in
a sill little social media post on x we really
can't handle this?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
What did we do to him? What did we do?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Did we bombard him on Twitter? Because I feel like
that's what happened here in it. That's why he deleted
his Twitter account for a while, isn't it. Listen? I
think that we may have to get a little bit
of a change going about how we perceive the all
Blacks hucker. Yes, it is special to us, and it
quite clearly is very special to the all blacks as well,
but it's not special to everybody, is it. I mean,

(01:06):
the rest of the world just has to put up
with it, don't they, And so maybe instead of being
so agro at them when they tell us that they
don't really like it, especially the British and especially Stephen Jones,
we should understand that they don't have to like it, right,
They don't have to put up with us, but they do.
We should actually be grateful that the Rugby Wild indulges

(01:27):
us the way that they do. They let us do
the hucker for a start, and then they let us
have all these rules about how other teams have to
respond to the Haucker, how close they can get stuff
like that. They try to be respectful, they face the challenge,
they apologize profusely when a plane accidentally flies over the
top of the wrong time. They don't have to do
any of the stuff, and they definitely do not have
to like the thing, and we shouldn't be so sensitive

(01:48):
about it. So let's be honest about this, right.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
We do the Haucker a lot nowadays because there are
a lot of international tests nowadays, and it is frankly
very nice that the rest of the world lets us
do it. So maybe a little less sensitivity, a little
bit more gratitude for more from hither Duplessy Allen Drive.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
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