{"id":58224,"date":"2025-10-03T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:19:08","slug":"all-black-tamaiti-williams-misquoted-as-mouldy-aussie-in-australian-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58224\/","title":{"rendered":"All Black Tamaiti Williams misquoted as \u2018mouldy Aussie\u2019 in Australian paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who saw the mistake online seemed to believe that this was a genuine misunderstanding of the word M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey probably mistook the proper pronunciation of \u201cM\u0101ori\u201d as \u201cmouldy\u201d as I\u2019m Mozzie myself,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n

Williams was interviewed ahead of the second Bledisloe Cup test in Perth, the city where the prop grew up.<\/p>\n

He was born in New Zealand, but moved to Western Australia and played both Rugby union and League. <\/p>\n

At 16 years old, he returned to Aotearoa and played at No 8 for Kerikeri High School before earning a scholarship at St Kentigern College. <\/p>\n

He moved to Christchurch near the end of 2019 and made his Mitre 10 Cup debut for Canterbury in 2020 before his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders in 2021.<\/p>\n

At the end of August, the prop re-signed with New Zealand Rugby through to 2029, making him available for selection for the 2027 Rugby World Cup and the 2029 British & Irish Lions Tour.<\/p>\n

Williams will start for the All Blacks<\/a> this weekend, making this his second professional game in Perth, his last being for the Crusaders against the Western Force three years ago when the New Zealand side won 53-15.<\/p>\n

Seven changes have been made from the starting team that beat the Wallabies at Eden Park, with captain Scott Barrett returning from a shoulder injury and Damian McKenzie taking Beauden Barrett\u2019s spot due to a shoulder injury. <\/p>\n

Robertson said his side were looking to build on their win in the previous round of the Rugby Championship, with the All Blacks needing a win to have a chance at winning the competition for the first time since 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw how competitive and determined the Wallabies were in Auckland last weekend, staying in the fight right to the end,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect another tough contest this Saturday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have picked a 23 to go toe-to-toe with a quality Australian team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Herald has approached the West Australian for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who saw the mistake online seemed to believe that this was a genuine misunderstanding of the word…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,5263,806,2937,1135,1558,7022,1559,78,48458,48460,48459,111,139,69,45644,48461,213,48457,13971],"class_list":["post-58224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-all","tag-as","tag-aussie","tag-australian","tag-been","tag-black","tag-called","tag-in","tag-misquoted","tag-mistakenly","tag-mouldy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paper","tag-quoting","tag-sports","tag-tamaiti","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}