British and Irish Lions<\/a> in their epic drawn series against New Zealand in 2017, revealed a quirky move was the secret sauce to team bonding on that tour.<\/p>\n\u201cWe had a choirmaster who taught us four songs,\u2019\u2019 Te\u2019o said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne from each nation (Calon L\u00e2n from Wales, The Fields of Athenry from Ireland, Jerusalem from England and Highland Cathedral from Scotland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would have choir practice in the afternoon. That was quite an interesting activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will never forget once we had learned some of the songs we ended up out at dinner and had the restaurant to ourselves. The red wine was flowing. We started singing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are the moments you never forget. We booked upstairs in an Irish pub and had a ripper of a night and had a couple of days off after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom then on we were pretty bonded as a team.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Asked to describe the different flavours of the four nations Te\u2019o said \u2026<\/p>\n
The Scots: \u201cThey are always the underdogs, Very passionate. I have witnessed that first hand at Murrayfield and lost to them. They have a lot of passion because they understand they don\u2019t have the depth of the other nations. They rip in.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The English: \u201cA lot of the English guys who played rugby are from private schools. They are smart, well educated guys. <\/p>\n
The Irish: \u201cThey are funny guys. Great sense of humour. And amazingly skilful. Some of the skills they learn playing other sports such as Gaelic Football in their youth mean they can do a lot of special things.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Welsh: \u201cIt\u2019s a rugby nation. Good fellas. Very talented. They like a drink.\u2019\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you ask teams from four different nations to sing from the same song sheet there\u2019s really only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}