Chiefs v Blues
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Enjoyable game to watch.
Best parts for me a the exits after we score are clinical. Super organised on defence and we play with structure.
Forwards are very, very impressive. Patrick is playing the rugby of his career, I love that he’s even more effective late in games. The nutrition tweak has helped him enormously.
Sotutu seems like a no brainer to try at eight for the All Blacks.
Akira has a very good return. He played a similar game around the field as Robinson last week, so good to see him slot in seamlessly to the team. Beast on defence, and all our loose forwards are working hard.
Not great conditions for the backs, some nice touches there and they looked after the Chiefs backs pretty comfortably.
Corner has officially been turned.
And the second week in a row we took the ref out of the game. Frustrating inconsistency in the application there. All I want as a fan is predictability, so if you see someone leave their feet you know they will be pinged.
What we are seeing is one team will get pinged for that, and the other not. Then it swaps, or they stop being strict anymore.
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When the camera panned the Chiefs’coaching box,seats looked hard to come by,but in the Blues‘ box sat the most successful Chiefs’forwards coach in their history.Funny that.
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@trodthesod I've been a Coventry fan since his days at Hawke's Bay, and I was very excited when we signed him, but I almost lost faith in him when our pack looked quite average last season, but this season he's proven that he's still got the Midas touch.
Anyone who can fix our maul defense is a miracle worker. He's also given us a sharp set-piece(at least when Eklund isn't throwing in the line-out). I guess Ben Afeaki deserves a bit of credit too.
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Yes agree Ben Afeaki has to be acknowledged. In fact from the CEO down things are looking good.Still have to keep our feet on the ground.The media will be in like jackals at their first stumble.Over the years the Blues have been the butt of their derision.,and in a lot of ways it has been self fulfilling.
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@trodthesod said in Chiefs v Blues:
Yes agree Ben Afeaki has to be acknowledged. In fact from the CEO down things are looking good.Still have to keep our feet on the ground.The media will be in like jackals at their first stumble.Over the years the Blues have been the butt of their derision.,and in a lot of ways it has been self fulfilling.
We aren’t going to win every game, but it is nice to see the old mistakes no longer being made.
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With no finals this year ,
And the blues playing the crusaders in the last round at eden park,
Wouldn’t it be awesome if the winner of this game, is the winner of the comp, so in effect, we do get a final
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@kiwiinmelb said in Chiefs v Blues:
With no finals this year ,
And the blues playing the crusaders in the last round at eden park,
Wouldn’t it be awesome if the winner of this game, is the winner of the comp, so in effect, we do get a final
Was just looking at the draw for the first time. That looks hands down what will happen.
Chiefs are away to Canterbury this weekend, so that will be a hiding. I think the Highlanders were made to look adequate by the Chiefs but it will be a shootout for last place between, Chiefs, Canes and Highlanders.
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An important factor in this competition will be the bonus point accrual.The Crusaders away to a flying start in this department.Eight extra points available with the three tries clear win,so that is an equation teams in contention will have to be aware of.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Chiefs v Blues:
With no finals this year ,
And the blues playing the crusaders in the last round at eden park,
Wouldn’t it be awesome if the winner of this game, is the winner of the comp, so in effect, we do get a final
That seems to be the most ideal scenario for this competition format. Did they think of this when making the schedule?
The bloody Chiefs, Canes and Highlanders better get with the program then and lose to the Blues. Beat the Crusaders if you want though... and maybe rough up bum-toucher, Mo'unga.
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That would be the ideal scenario,
very good chance the Crusaders could end up more than a game clear by the time we get there though, by beating them first time around at home , and accumulating more bonus points
