I definitely want to All Blacks to win, since we never seem to get noticed by the world for much else. The one thing that I have rugby however is the insane amount of media attention, it's on the headlines all the time and if we ever lose then there are endless interviews on the tv where people drone on and on about how it's a national tragedy and how we need to do all this stuff to make sure something as horrible as this never happens again.

If the French flattened Auckland with missiles it wouldn't be as big a story over here as if they'd defeated us at rugby. I just think that we take rugby far to seriously, after all, it's just a game.


Oh and as for the thuggery and arrogance, I think that's rubbish. I don't know how many people abroad understand the immense pressure we put upon them to win. We expect them to win, if you're calling the All Blacks arrogant for going in to win it then you'll be calling most NZers arrogant too.