Posts by Michael Roseingrave
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I think I can see a new tag line: "Listen to the Dropkicks. We're not muntery."
I like it.
But we're not a cult. Most of the time.
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Oooh...now we're getting into semantics (and potentially charged discussions)! We went for "homogeneous" as in "uniformly born in the one place". Weak, yes, and another in a long line of our mangling of the English language, but we hooked onto it and wouldn't let it go: we Dropkicks have one-track minds. Maybe we should've used "home-grown".
And Simon G absolutely nailed it with his points about not getting sucked into the whole "born" argument. People out of the know (e.g. the NH journos) don't bother to get in to the know and therefore generalise, either because they're lazy or it sells more papers or pagehits. Whatever.
That they latch on to the large number of players of Polynesian and Melanesian descent in New Zealand rugby (ah, the racist undertones) and use that as proof of "poaching" is sloppy journalism and it's infuriating. You can't prove anything based on where someone was born - heck, they don't even do that; if someone looks like they should have been born somewhere else, they've been "poached"!