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Aussie vs Kiwi

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Posted by: auksiron2

4th Feb 2011 05:39pm

I find it astounding that the Australian sports person and general public seem to get hyped everytime they come up against any Kiwi sports team/person.
Why does the average aussie do that?
When you make a comparison to population and size australia you far outweigh the kiwi's. Please someone enlighten me why Australia feels the need to compete in most levels of sports to a country that's not even 1/2 the population and size of oz.
Hmmmm...methinks it's beause at the end of the day kiwis are superior sports people. And forever we remain sooooo

Bryan
  • 16th Feb 2011 06:54am

I am a Kiwi, but with family who have moved to Aus (not in chains). Having worked in Aus and frequently holidayed there, I think Kiwi's have a significantly bigger sense of rivalry towards Australians than Ausies do toward us.
As an ex sports person (now too old), I didn't play for the sport, I played to win and did what ever it took to win, sometimes I even got caught by the referee! I think the Ausie under arm incident may have been bad sportsmanship, but it won them the game..and at the end of the day, its the scoreboard that counts...(we are taught to play for the fun of the sport but that PC stuff is for losers!)
NZ is about 20% of the population of Australia (excluding all those kiwi's who don't live in NZ), but we compete well in most things - I even believe we have beat them at Rugby league a couple of times lately, and even our lowly rated soccer team has become much more competitive lately (how many games did Ausie lose at the world cup (kiwi's didn't lose any - didn't win any either mind you)...Cricket is the one stand out that Ausie's seem to have over NZ..must be a throw back to their colonial heritage..but again, Kiwi's have always been free to choose where to live!

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