Why is New Zealand so good at rugby?

Answer 1

Because New Zealanders are touugh! Football players are wussy, American footballers wussy in comparison. New Zealanders have to fight the bitter south, and the only other tough Rugby team is South Africa. This is because South Africans have to fight off blicks and lions and some of them live in the desert. Australians don't live in the desert so they aren't tough. So tough Kiwis prefer rugby, and traditionally it involved a lot more fighting and drinking: Kiwis and Australians are good at that. I don't if South Africans are good at drinking but they are also good at fighting. Australia's main sport is Rugby League which is possibly even touugher than Rugby Union.

Answer 2

Rugby is New Zealand's #1 sport. Rugby League and Union represents New Zealand in competitons such as NRL (Warriors), Four nations (New Zealand) and World cup (New Zealand). New Zealand brings back the heritage of the history at the start of every game, the haka in other words.

Answer 3

New Zealand has a long and storied history with Rugby Union. Even though NZ is a small country by population, it has a large pool of Rugby players to draw from as it is a very popular game, and is the national sport. The playerbase is further expanded by many pacific island nation's players who move to New Zealand to play club rugby, and go on to represent NZ at a National Level because of the prestige of playing for the All Blacks (NZ National team) and the considerably higher pay rate than would be obtained by playing for their own national side.

Furthermore, New Zealand usually has a very good training programme right through the high school, minor club and major club level.

A good comparison would be American Football, or Basketball in the USA and the training programmes employed there. There is a high level of professionalism involved in training and bringing through younger players into higher levels of the game.

Rugby is well funded in New Zealand at all levels and there is a high level of competition within the country itself, not just at provincial (state) level, but in men's club leagues aswell.

Lastly there is a lot of pressure placed on the All Blacks to succeed, if the All Blacks lose a single match it is front page news in all papers, and headlines on the television. The public demand a high level of success from the All Blacks.

This all contributes to a 75% win rate at international test match level.

Answer 4

Two reasons:

A) we are a british colony, and rugby is a popular british sport

B) NZ is really good at rugby union.

Answer 5

Because there is not much else to do in New Zealand

Answer 6

It is the national sport and the people of New Zealand are very passionate about it.