Manaia Stewart

It's a religious head garment.

In the same way that you wouldn't ask a woman to remove her headscarf.

Well, I mean, it's only as strange as any other one, I suppose.

You wouldn't ask a Sikh to take his turban off.

Yeah, right.

You can't ask.

And it's an officially recognised religion in New Zealand.

It's like when everybody took Jedi in the census a few years ago and it was an officially...

um recognized religion so yeah he claimed pastafarian as his religion and put the uh colander on his head for his license photo now the issue there is so that's fine every time he shows his license he's got this bloody colander with him

He wasn't allowed to take it into Takaha Stadium on Sunday night.

So he wanted to wear that at the Warriors game.

You're not allowed to take a colander in?

No, security said no.

It could be dangerous if you threw it at someone.

And then he showed them his license.

I was like, well, hang on.

It's part of my religion.

Yeah, well, and the other thing is, and I said to him that at the Super Rugby final, Joey Wheeler interviewed a guy on TV who had brought a cake tin with him.

Did you see that guy?

Yeah, I saw a lot of people that bought cake tins.