When Wayne Smith joined the Chiefs after the All Blacks, he helped mastermind a linguistic revolution in the team. ‘We started establishing a vocabulary, a mindset and an attitude,’ he says, and Māoritanga – Māori culture – became part of the common language. Attack became paoa, meaning ‘to strike’, and defence became tainui, or ‘surging tide’.
just like Aaron talks about , our own jargon, or language to explain what we do.
