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England will lose by 3-5 points.Apparently, there's a rugby match on Saturday. Anyone care to speculate on how that might go?
England will lose by 3-5 points.Apparently, there's a rugby match on Saturday. Anyone care to speculate on how that might go?
Good film for historical accuracy thatWay back when, I think 2006 or 2008 I was at Murrayfield for the Calcutta cup and Scotland had a bunch of people dressed up as extras from Braveheart on the pitch waving swords, shields and axes.
Most of them were English and at the time it was an English regiment, didn't become the South Wales Borderers until 2 years after the event.Didn't they only win because an English man John Chard of the Royal Engineers was in charge.
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England will lose by 3-5 points.
So were the combovers. Dusty (not much) Hair got the winning pointsMidlands v ABs. What a time to be alive. That's awesome. Things were better back then.
I think NZ is fairly unique among ex colonies in terms of the sheer extent to which native culture survived and even got adopted by the colonisers.Genuine question.
The haka has Maori origins. Māori or Māori descendants are a minority. Presumably the hakas are done with Māori agreement, but do all Māori feel that way? Do non Māori players feel comfortable doing them? Do all Kiwi fans feel that it represents them? When did it cross over into being representative of NZ as a whole?
As much as I would like a Royal Engineer to take the credit it was actually Com Dalton who was the actual hero. He was a seasoned soldier who was offered a commission in the commensurate and found himself at Rorkes Drift with 2 young daft officers and a load of sick Welshmen.Didn't they only win because an English man John Chard of the Royal Engineers was in charge.
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And the native culture was the least established as the Māori only arrived in New Zealand themselves from arround 1300 onwards. (Having had a Māori heritage teacher at school we had whole lessons on Māori history that very few in England must have ever had.)I think NZ is fairly unique among ex colonies in terms of the sheer extent to which native culture survived and even got adopted by the colonisers.