\u201cIt is quite powerful because even when you\u2019re not facing the haka, when you\u2019re just watching the boys do it in the club for the other milestones, it certainly makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Nichols\u2019 son, O\u2019Hara, could be seen near the front of the group putting his all into the haka.<\/p>\n
He said he knew the haka was coming and his son had been practising before the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there are any milestones in the club, the boys, mainly all the Prem boys and anybody else that wants to come and join in, will jump up and do the haka for any milestone.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I sort of knew that was coming and my young fella has to practise the haka for the big Taup\u014d tournaments we take them to, so they\u2019ve all got to know it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I sort of expected him to jump up the front as well and obviously it was pretty emotional for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t just family members who became emotional at the celebration, other members of the club were too.<\/p>\n
\u201cStraight after, everybody was saying how emotional it was, and how special, and even once everybody went over the videos, and seeing O\u2019Hara crying doing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I myself, you know, I\u2019ve always said, \u2018right, I love watching the boys do it\u2019 and I said to myself, \u2018one day I\u2019ll face that haka\u2019 and yeah, obviously that night was my night to face it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam started playing rugby for Paremata Plimmerton, but said he made the switch to rugby from football later in life, something he won\u2019t be moving back to.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll stick with the rugby as long as I can and then when I think when I can\u2019t play no more, I\u2019ll probably just take up refereeing or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, he\u2019ll continue playing social grade rugby and coaching his kids through the junior club, but has his eye set on the next milestone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe might as well go for six.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll just go as long as possible, I\u2019m only my fourth season in the Presidents [social grade], so I expect to stay there for the next decade hopefully, but you know, you can only go with how the body will go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is quite powerful because even when you\u2019re not facing the haka, when you\u2019re just watching the boys…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[346094,134326,617,10960,64,63,1700,11890,135218,41261,580,1862,1852,321904,26456,46454,18140,22795,60832,7820,16726,760,72280,16372,9705,85,46206,71950],"class_list":["post-711960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-500th","tag-achieve","tag-and","tag-as","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-best","tag-dads","tag-difficult","tag-five","tag-for","tag-game","tag-games","tag-haka","tag-helps","tag-hundred","tag-lead","tag-match","tag-milestone","tag-players","tag-pride","tag-rugby","tag-senior","tag-some","tag-son","tag-sports","tag-tears","tag-thats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711960","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=711960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}