Any one for a game

[happy daze john in oz]

The schedule has been released for this year’s Bledisloe Cup

At 6 pm players will enter the field and line up either side of halfway. There will be a Welcome to Country and then they will take a knee for 1 minute.


A 'smoking ceremony' will then take place. All past and present elders will be honoured. After that there will be a minute’s silence for everybody who has died. Indigenous people will then be recognised as the traditional owners of this country.

White people will be acknowledged as invading colonialists. A formal apology on behalf of all heterosexual white males will be made by Kevin Rudd to all females in history who have been harassed or not being given equal pay.


Both teams will then sing the National Anthems in Maori, Aboriginal and English. Only the 'white players' are expected to sing the anthems in English (for the Wallabies that will only be about 2 or 3).


They will then go to the middle of the ground where the All Blacks will perform the Haka.


After that, players will go into their religious groups to sing and pay homage to their friends in the sky.

Atheists will go into their own group to talk about what they have done to combat climate change.


Both teams will then come together in the middle of the field and hold hands while putting rainbow tape on each other’s arms.

The Wallabies will be wearing their new strip designed by Lisa Wilkinson. It will have aboriginal artwork along with black, blue, white, red, pink and brown ribbons printed on the front of the jumper. The jumper will have a large Z on the front for the team’s new sponsor, clean energy billionaire Zali Steggall.


The Wallabies will be captained by Bill Smith as Joe Bloggs is still serving a 10 game suspension after it was discovered his great uncle made a feminist remark to a barmaid in 1965. The game will also have 2 minute time-outs after a try is scored so mental health coaches can enter the field and talk to the players who have just been scored against, to discuss their emotions.


Purple cards will also be used in the match for players to be sent from the field for 15 minutes if they say anything mean.

The game should finish around 2 am the next day.


As the stadium is powered by two windmills and rooftop solar panels, if there is no wind or sun in the two days prior to the game, it will be moved to an afternoon game starting at 12.30 pm which is expected to finish before dark.

[Doc Vernon]

Tha,ll be about right! Getting to be more of a bleedin Ceremony at the Games than a Sports Event!

One sits for ages waiting for a game to begin these days ! Especially the more Important ones @@ Grrrrr!!!

[Mike Hewitt]

Did no one tell you John that the game was called off two minutes after start of play after it was discovered that the pitch that they were playing on was in fact ancient spiritual ancestor Didgeridoo burial ground.

[sivasilvan]

It's clear they're putting a lot of effort into acknowledging different cultures and issues.

[Johnny Kieran]

[happy daze john in oz]

It's clear they're putting a lot of effort into acknowledging different cultures and issues.

Problem is the Aboriginal nation is made up of about 80 or so different tribes from all over the country.
All have their own culture and dialect.
Before 1788 those in one state possibly never knew of others as they did not move that far.
Hunter gatherers in local areas only.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Problem is the Aboriginal nation is made up of about 80 or so different tribes from all over the country.
All have their own culture and dialect.
Before 1788 those in one state possibly never knew of others as they did not move that far.
Hunter gatherers in local areas only.

Pretty much the same as the Irish then, or Native Americans etc

[j.sabourn]

I was reading one learned persons researches into the origins of the Australian aborigine and there is a consensus of opinion by a certain group that their origins go back to mainland India. Also from old parchments written many hundreds of years before Cook reports, on sightings of full sized natives killing what can best be described as Pygmy races . This is from the mariners who frequented these areas first , of what nationality I don’t know. The report did not put the owners of the land in any holyistic light. Think they base their findings on scientific body and skin samples the same as one can trace one’s own nationalistic forefathers today. JS

[James Curry]

#6 John so a little like the UK& Republic of Ireland, So Scotland about 500 clans, as Ivan mentioned Ireland so that is another 400 or so. Then you have the English, Geordies, Scousers, Brummies, Cockneys, Kumars, Singhs and many others.
Now I must not leave out the Welsh, so we have, Jenkins(Des that's for you ) then Jones, Williams, Griffiths (thought there was more than 5 of them)Evans, Edwards think that is about it.

[j.sabourn]

#8 DNA was the word I was trying to get my tongue round . My son had his done and as he should follow mine and his mothers we must also have traces of Irish, Norwegian and even a dash of Greek. The Aboriginal has a very large part of his DNA comes from a certain part of India pointing in that direction. With the recent info. Of more Indian nationals coming into the country this will however be lost in the birth rate the same as every other country of the past. JS