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LISTEN: Change has to happen in Australian rugby
By RugbyPass
After the Wallabies' devastating loss in the first Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney, you'd be forgiven for presuming the code is dying in Australia.
But the truth, according to Aussie rugby pundit Jaybor Staunton, is that isn't the case. But it doesn't mean that there aren't serious problems at the top.
Speaking exclusively on The Short Ball with Scotty Stevenson and Mils Muliaina, Staunton says:
"Rugby in Australia is not in the place it needs to be. (ARU boss) Bill Pulver has said club rugby isn't at the same level as the Wallabies, well that's not the point. It's the only level that's working."
"The top of Australian rugby is twisted and broken, but the foundations are still strong. It's not dying, it's just sick and injured."
Stevenson chimes in, saying:
"The guys at the top have no idea what's happening in club rugby, about the groundswell of support...as is evidenced by what you saw in Perth."
Listen to what they have to say about the whole situation on the latest episode of The Short Ball:
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Lovely to see the kiwi fans disintegrate into homophobic slurs and nonsensical partizan hollering just because it's the only international sporting contest they can hope to compete in.
By far the most biased, blinkered and uneducated fans I've ever come across.
Not a single person in the country can explain the cultural significance of the haka because it's a war dance, not part of any sporting contest.
When it is confronted, teams are punished. When individuals stand against it they are vilified or nearly crippled like O'Driscol was and to this day no kiwi will acknowledge it.
I have no love for Joe at all, but it brings up the point again. Why the hell should anyone have to stand there and put up with it?
If you all love it and it means so much to you all, do it in your own time.
And if anyone has a problem, please explain it to me fluently in Maori and I'll consider your point. If you can't, get your own identity and live up to that instead of clinging onto a cultural heritage that you don't fully understand yet try to stuff down everyone else's throat.
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