Larry Williams 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? I think that we may have to get a little bit of a change going about how we perceive the All Blacks’ haka. 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, the rest of the world just has to put up with it, don't