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| I remember Michael Slater once saying he found cricket to be a sport where getting all pumped up before play was counter productive. If you are fielding and you're all buzzed up, you can't keep it up for 2 hours, let alone a full day - you actually find that after half an hour you are knackered! If you are batting, it is not a good thing to be going at the ball hard from the first delivery, and the other 9 guys in the team have no outlet for their aggression, so they lose focus too. I doubt we'll see the haka come into cricket - even if I would love to see Harry Potter have a go! |
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| By: the_luv_goat Today (9:39 am) Re:The Amateur NZ Cricket Board (PREVIEW) I reckon if the slogan had said "It's all black here" no-one would have said boo. ------------------------- ------------------------- --------- Blackfellas would have wondered WTF does that mean too luvgoat. Blackfellas wouldn't use a slogan like that when playing whitefellas, they would see how it could be insulting and thats the difference. |
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| The Tall Blacks do the haka But having said that, the captain Pero Cameron is coloured, about 6 foot 10 and over 100kg The sight of Vettori, 50 kg wringing wet, doing the haka and trying to scare the opposition would be p1ss funny I think the K1s tried the haka once in a 50 over match against Australia, and batted first, so the fired up team all went and sat in the dressing room for 3 hours. They got flogged |
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| Imagine that - a big, rousing rendition of the haka, followed by 6 hours of standing around in a gentlemanly fashion! Kinda needs to go hand in hand with a game that involves a bit of bash and crash doesn't it! Do their basketballers do the haka - that'd be pretty stupid too! |
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| Well if the slogan had a picture of a couple of k1s in cricket whites, it may have just been acceptable. The Kiwi cricketers must be one of the few NZ male sporting teams not to do the Haka pre match |
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| The term 'All blacks' has never been an issue (as far as I know). This is because it is a term that has come about due to their uniform. It is an obvious reference - no different to Man Utd and Liverpool being known as the 'Red Devils' and 'Reds' - it doesn't indicate they are communists! I do believe the Kiwi soccer side is the 'All Whites' too - that is fine. BUT, this slogan is quite ambiguous - if it needed explaining to say what it means, then it is not only ineffective, but stupid. Why go with something that can be taken offensively by the touring side? |
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| This, from a nation whose most famous sporting team is called the....yeah, you guessed it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I reckon if the slogan had said "It's all black here" no-one would have said boo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Surely at least one person involved in the slogan would have a brain in their head and realise what the reaction would be?! Even if the slogan was 100% innocent, it doesn't take Einstein to figure out that it has racial overtones. |
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| The NZCB should have learnt from the mighty BCCI In situations when the touring party is racially insulted, 1. Deny there is a problem, and laugh it off. 2. Make a weak excuse - baby Jesus wore white and we were alluding to our religious deity 3. And if 1 and 2 dont work, accuse the victim of the racial vilification of being weak and oversensitive, and then grudgingly admit you may have to look at the problem |
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| NZ cricket officials sorry for slogan AAP - November 21, 2008, 9:00 am Cricket officials in Dunedin have apologised for using the slogan "It's all white here" to promote a Test match between New Zealand and the visiting West Indies side in the city next month, a newspaper reported Friday. The slogan has been dubbed racist and insulting to the visitors, but Otago cricket chief executive Ross Dykes said, "We just wanted a catchy phrase to help sell the game." "It was all based around the association of the colour with cricket," he told the Otago Daily Times, referring to the white clothes worn by all Test cricketers. Dykes said he had sent emails to the West Indies team manager and the chief executive of the West Indies Cricket Board to explain the slogan and would be "mortified" if anyone saw it as a racial slur. "I respect the opinions of others who may well think that it is insensitive," he said. "To those people I apologise." Former cricket commentator Billy Ibadulla told the paper, "The connection between the phrase and white clothing is stupid at best, and grievous at worst." A former West Indies and New Zealand cricketer, Sam Guillen, 84, who lives in Christchurch, told The Press newspaper, "I know exactly how the players will feel. "The first thing that will go through their mind is it's white against black, which should never come into sport." |
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