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The All Blacks have dominated the game, haka practice didn’t seem to be a factor then.

Unfortunately, Maori culture is a part of your identity as a New Zealander. You don’t have to acknowledge it or like it; you do you.

But it’s a part of us.

The haka before the game is an expression of us all as a people.

I have my issues with it, but it’s unlikely to change.

The players can see what is going on, just as they could eventually see it with Deans and Rennie.

Schmidt is not trying to do his best for Australia and nor were Deans or Rennie.

The players aren't stupid. They can however see that the selections are stupid. They know the defence is rubbish. They know they are not getting the opportunity to run some brilliant Australian backline set moves.

It's over for Schmidt already imo. He'll scurry back to his smail in NZ after the tour to count his silver leaving the Wallabies in Australia.

He clearly has a lack of commitment to Australia.

Kiwi coaches have decimated enthusiasm for rugby in Wales. Why would a Welsh kid aspire to play for a kiwi ? They are going to do the same to Australia if we don't get rid of them. They are scheming wreckers.

Asking Hamish to go back to England is juvenile, like asking you to go back to Tahiti/England. The Allblacks are not a team to please a few people that want to divide NZ.

The problem with the haka now is that a number of players think it's a team to be dictated to by those with an axe to grind that are part Maori.

It's time to shift haka out of the national team and to the NZ Maori team to perform.

The Allblacks are the national team and all the recent haka changes and the recent addition of wooden spears, etc, are a distraction.

Of course learning and practicing the haka needs to happen before it's done, that means less time and energy for practicing rugby.

It's time to move forward and let the Allblacks just concentrate on returning to the world number one position.

It won't happen because NZRU has allowed itself to be captured internally by a fixation with the treaty and all manner of advisers on haka, etc.

But yes, the game has passed WG by now, so it might be best for him to take an honourable step back all things being equal. Bar Mick Forshaw it's the same staff as it was back in 5-7 years ago....

Unless they can attract someone demonstrably better however, he'll stay on for the 6N.