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Although I have never gone to Waikato the cowbells and chainsaws would have to be bloody annoying, you can hear it on TV loud as anything, it'd be excruciating at the ground.... [/b]
Wait, what? Chainsaws?! :blink:
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Oh yeah, yeah. Chainsaws I tell 'ya. You can hear the bloody things on tv. But the cow bells just take the cake, everyone f***ing has them! And they think they're cool! :blink:
Read this, sums up Waikato perfectly:
Waratahs' fly-half Kurtley Beale was left to rue a late chance to win his side's Super 14 game against the Chiefs on Saturday after he missed a 79th-minute kick.
After Lote Tuqiri scored in the dying minutes to claw the 'Tahs back to 17-17, Beale stepped up and got both barrels of the bizarre Waikato welcome to goal-kickers.
Along with heckling and jeering, many of the 11,000 locals banged cowbells and one man even fired up a buzzing chainsaw in the stand.
"I have never experienced anything like that," Beale told the Australian Daily Telegraph.
"It was my first time (having a kick to win). I have always been a second-string kicker. When I used to kick at Joeys, there was silence for both teams. But the boys told me there would be a guy with a chainsaw at the back of the stadium, and he'd start it when you're kicking at goal.
"I kind of expected (the hostility), but I was just trying to focus on the ball and the kick," Beale said.
"I hit a few good ones there but I think in the end, the wind took it across and we couldn't get away with it."
With last season's kicker, Peter Hewat, no longer in Super Rugby Beale has been handed the goal-kicking duties this season, but he is not shying away from the pressure.
"I like being the kicker," Beale said.
"It's another strength to my game. I am fortunate enough to be in this position, and I have just got to practise more in different circumstances."
From Planet-Rugby.com