Blues v Chiefs
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Can someone get Robinson a hair-band?
More hair-flicking than at a teenage party
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Good teams know how to win ugly 😀
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@antipodean to be fair to the chiefs I agree with some earlier coms...not having your 2 main locks plus the impressive Luke Jacobson along with a host of other injuries must take its toll..
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@Machpants More like the last 5 years. That game was similar to the Waratahs v Crusaders where we were shit but the Chiefs were a lot shitter.
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@Steven-Harris said in Blues v Chiefs:
@antipodean to be fair to the chiefs I agree with some earlier coms...not having your 2 main locks plus the impressive Luke Jacobson along with a host of other injuries must take its toll..
Agreed. The fact the Chiefs have won any games with their injury toll is surprising.
Will take the win as a Blues Supporter..!,but was a hard watch at times..!
Winning is a habit. It might help take away the panic they demonstrate in the opposition 22.
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@Machpants Is that the first time they've used a short-lineout drive? Might be a good idea to reduce to more of a man-on-man contest, rather than one of organisation.
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A win but against any other NZ side that would have been a substantial loss. Mistakes across the park and poor decision making continue. I wouldn’t say that result marks a turning point just a confirmation of the major fault lines that run through the Blues.
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@Tim said in Blues v Chiefs:
@Machpants Is that the first time they've used a short-lineout drive? Might be a good idea to reduce to more of a man-on-man contest, rather than one of organisation.
I don't know, TBH, but it seems the blues stuff up every time things start to go on a bit. Really if they don't score quickly they're more than likely to lose it. So that sort of move good for them!
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@kev Have to agree. Don't get me wrong it's great to beat another NZ team but this Chiefs side is very weak on paper and we're still making plenty of mistakes on attack. Why the Chiefs opted for the scrum at 18-8 I'll never know as we don't know how to stop a driving maul to save our lives but that's their problem I guess.
The performance was a carbon copy of last week against the Canes I thought.
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First off, it was nice to watch a Blues game with ten minutes to go and know the win was in the bag.
That scrum to earn the penalty, then play up the field for a maul(?!) bonus point try was very sweet.
The negatives were handling at key times, lack of patience in the 22 and Harry’s goal kicking.
Positives were Clarke is really hitting his straps, Forwards are great at keeping the ball and getting over the advantage line.
Still with all the pressure to get a result, history against them, it was great belief and composure to strangle the Chiefs.
Akira was great this week, constantly got over the advantage line, linked up really well and as normal was huge in defence. One messy scrum for him to improve on.
Ref was surprisingly good, no obvious howlers, and was very consistent. He was in good position for Ofas juggle and was happy with it. The Blues have had to eat so many of those type of decisions, I’ll take one in our favour for a change. Had no impact on the result thankfully.
Pretty poor of the interviewer after the game to ask Weber if he felt hard done by the ref, and even worse for him to reply no comment.
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@Kirwan said in Blues v Chiefs:
Ref was surprisingly good, no obvious howlers, and was very consistent.
Except for awarding controversial tries.
Pretty poor of the interviewer after the game to ask Weber if he felt hard done by the ref, and even worse for him to reply no comment.
Considering the question was asked, that was the best possible answer Weber could give. If he hadn't felt hard done by, he could have said "no", but if he felt hard done by (and who can blame him?), there's no way he could have said so.
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@Yeetyaah said in Blues v Chiefs:
Dang I don't wanna sound like a sore loser but bloody hell Jackson was awful. Chiefs didn't deserve the win and credit to the Blues, but the Sowakula and Cane try not being awarded were such bad calls.
I think Cane's try was correctly disallowed, but Sowakula's should have had the same result as Tu'ungafasi's.
