Smart-arse Latin Comments

Thanks for the information.

When I had the dubious honour of captaining the school's 1st XV (1965-66 Forest Fields Grammar, Nottingham if anybody is interested), I sacrilegiously introduced a version of the Haka to our start-up.

It started with a lot of heavy staring, waving of arms and ugly faces and ended with the leap.

We chanted something like this:

Comati, comati, yeh, yeh

Boloxi, crashiti, nackardy, nackardy

Comati, comati, yeh, yeh

Boloxi, crashiti, nackardy, nackardy

Smashiti, bashiti, hey

Don’t be offended, it was our unashamed tribute to the greatest rugby team in the world. Some say it started all sorts of rumours about an ex-All Black coach or a secret All Black schoolboy member of the team.

Whatever, I like to think we gained a psychological advantage that was worth at least 10 points, even if it was only on the basis of the fact that our opponents thought we were a bunch of raving nutters.

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Sounds hilarious.