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Madness. I agree with you
@TRF_heineken The Boar war, really? I think SA have got more recent issues than that. Hate Farrell, but to use arrogance, cockiness as an excuse to hate England is mad. All nations want to win games and would say the same words, this 'target on your back' is just nonsense. Just dislike us, its fine.
Thinking about it, I really really really want Wales to lose every game, but I blooming love Wales and want a strong Wales team. There's rivalry and disliking something/someone, and using that rivalry to motivate and for kudos. Or there is hatred and I think you've got some real not thinly vailed hatred against England Rugby and the country... When we play the Germans in football I really flipping hope Southgate doesn't mention the war to motivate our players. That would be horrible, and weak.
I'm off to the SA thread to list a lot of historical reasons, and rugby injustices to hate South Africa (I won't, I loved my two visits to SA)
What other reason could we use to despise England?? We can't use Brexit, or your currency, as ours are in the toilet, and with Brexit we have a chance to improve our export prices to Britain.
So we revert to something in the past. We can't use Apartheid, that was our own fault. So we go back a little bit more. Ah, the Boer War, now that was a crappy time. Ooh, look the redcoats, ja they were proper A**Holes, now we have something our grandparents can tell us to make us despise a sport team and build up a proper rivalry other than a yearly tournament because we're in the same hemisphere...
The hatred is symbolic guys. And it's just applicable to your sport teams. We hate the Aussies just as much, and that's why we cheer the Umpires during the Ashes...