Richie Mo'unga (C) and his Crusaders teammates celebrate winning he 2021 Super Rugby title. The word 'hate' is as overworked in the sporting lexicon as a box kick or scrum re-set on the rugby pitch. Remember the eight-year-old kid who held up the 'I Hate You, Auckland' sign at Lancaster Park in 1997 when the Blues were at the peak of their powers? That boy - Dean Anderson - had a pretty good take on the word 'hate' when he grew up to be a man. Stuff in 2013 - when he was 24 - Anderson said: "Now I can see how people would get quite wound up about it, but at the time - being an 8-year-old kid - I hated brussel sprouts, and I hated peas.