Blues v Chiefs
-
-
-
Game of two halves. What the Blues wouldn't give for the person who gave the Chiefs half-time speech.
I still don't see any clear patterns by the Blues.
-
@Hooroo said in Blues v Chiefs:
I’ll take the credit for that one thank you. Every time I flipped back from the cricket the Chiefs would score a try. I might have a word to them to see if I should seek employment
The Black Caps took two wickets when I changed channel in the other direction
-
@KiwiMurph said in Blues v Chiefs:
Blues are going nowhere but it was a fun game.
Not good for the comp though. Same old Blues is not good news.
We are much better in the forwards and on defence in general. May be same old same old, but it’s early to get too pessimistic.
-
@Donsteppa said in Blues v Chiefs:
@Hooroo said in Blues v Chiefs:
I’ll take the credit for that one thank you. Every time I flipped back from the cricket the Chiefs would score a try. I might have a word to them to see if I should seek employment
The Black Caps took two wickets when I changed channel in the other direction
Let’s start a “you’re a good luck charm” business. You look after cricket and I’ll take care of the rugby.
-
-
@African-Monkey said in Blues v Chiefs:
@gt12 Sounds like a phrase we use every year.
That’s fair. They need to choose Nock and Plummer and live with it until BB gets back.
-
@KiwiMurph said in Blues v Chiefs:
Was it just me or did Blake Gibson offer bugger all?
Sotutu faded too. Robinson stayed busy, same with Dalton.
But halfback was the biggest problem tonight.
-
-
-
@KiwiMurph There's no point having him there if he doesn't start. Ioane has to come into the gameday squad next week whether it's starting or off the bench just to bring some balance to our backrow options.
Niuia also has to start next week. Eklund was showing form from his days with the Auckland Mitre 10 Cup side.
-
Duffie is fine at #15
Blues halfbacks are fucking terrible Ruru is a headless chicken Perofeta is poor & can't kick to save his life
Plummer & Black are backups at bestBlues are awful - poorly coached, high error rate, mental erros Giving up 32 pts in the 2nd half is disfracful
BB won;t make a difference if he has a bum at scrum half
Good thing Landers have a Mitre 10 squad with A Smith & Iaone or else Blues would AGAIN be worst NZ team in SR -
@Kirwan said in Blues v Chiefs:
@Hooroo said in Blues v Chiefs:
Who was the dickhead who said we are getting an out of form fossil back to the Chiefs???
His field kicking was comical at times. Not sure he’s going to last long either, so be careful....
It was me if you didn’t catch the sarcasm.
From the little I saw of the two halves, it just appeared more controlled in the second half. I could be wrong though as I flukely only really saw tries and build up to tries
-
@macandcheese From all comments Nock and Plummer are fine they just need to select them.
-
Far out, that was as frustrating a game to go to as I can remember. We did enough in the first half to win by 20, but couldn't kick goals, keep pressure on or get the rub fo the green. Chiefs knew our weakness (mauls) and just exploited it over and over again.
Blues I thought looked a lot better. Some of the short passing is really tasty, just hanging a ball up in space for someone to run to. Should get better and better as the season goes on.
Scrum was a weapon we just weren't smart enough to capitalise on.Ref was poor, missed a lot live, and seemed to miss a lot on replay too. We're not good enough to win tight games if we don't get a fair shake; same as last year.
Ruru was frustrating as all hell. Coughed up ball, made some poor choices on defence I thought, and was generally not great. Nock looked a lot better when he came on.
Lineout fell apart. Lost 3 in a row on our own throw in the first half - it's just letting people off the hook. Don't know why it was so bad.
Well played Chiefs, they won't win many if they can't fix the scrum, but well played to get over the top. Now yuo'll all have to excuse me as i go and drink a few beers and grizzle on the internets.
