Hurricanes v Chiefs
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@mariner4life This week's Hurricanes team is very NPC though.
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@stargazer No wonder Falcon was not able to secure a super contract in NZ if he was rated inferior to JGB when said player was snapped up by the Hurricanes. The other Super Rugby selection panels are obviously just as stupid as the Hurricanes ones have been over the years if they believe in that fallacy.
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@mariner4life said in SRA Round 4: Hurricanes v Chiefs:
look at all you Hurricanes fans falling over each other to declare yourselves underdogs and the Chiefs, a team that hasn't won a game since before COVID fucked everybody's lives up, as morals.
I almost miss the unbridled overrating of your squad. almost.
We just see the writing on the wall unlike the Canes coaches with their poor selections.
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@mikey07 said in SRA Round 4: Hurricanes v Chiefs:
@higgins Like I said mate I’ve lost the faith for the first time ever I hope we go 8-0. Doubt it’ll get us a clean out of coaches though.
Especially as the coaches just got their contracts extended.
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Chiefs
1 Aidan Ross (37)
2 Samisoni Taukei’aho (38)
3 Angus Ta’avao (37)
4 Tupou Vaa’i (9)
5 Naitoa Ah Kuoi (14)
6 Mitchell Brown (47)
7 Sam Cane (124) (cc)
8 Luke Jacobson (27)
9 Brad Weber (87) (cc)
10 Kaleb Trask (9)
11 Etene Nanai-Seturo (16)
12 Quinn Tupaea (13)
13 Anton Lienert-Brown (83)
14 Jonah Lowe (1)
15 Damian McKenzie (86)Reserves:
16 Bradley Slater (17)
17 Ollie Norris (5)
18 Joe Apikotoa**
19 Samipeni Finau (1)
20 Simon Parker (1)
21 Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi (39) – (49 Super Rugby Games)
22 Alex Nankivell (32)
23 Chase Tiatia (2)() = Gallagher Chiefs caps in brackets
*denotes Gallagher Chiefs debut
**denotes Sky Super Rugby debutUnavailable for selection:
Atu Moli (hips), Josh Lord (shoulder), Sione Mafileo (back), Laghlan McWhannell (knee), Lachlan Boshier (foot), Pita Gus Sowakula (knee).https://www.chiefs.co.nz/news-item/Gallagher-Chiefs-named-to-face-the-Hurricanes-in-the-capital
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@stargazer said in SRA Round 4: Hurricanes v Chiefs:
Joe Apikotoa
Is he any good? Our front row has been pretty shit so far, and with the shortish second row, I'm still worried about our set piece.
That backline looks good, but there doesn't appear to be much to fear on the bench (perhaps apart from Finau, but he's a pup). Tiatia appears to be a liability especially.
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@gt12 In his first year for the Magpies (2018), I didn't think much of Joe 'Apikotoa. Just another Wellington reject, I thought. He wasn't in the squad in 2019 (playing for Oridizia Rugby in Spain instead), but returned in 2020. He was much better and became our first choice TH prop. He's quite tall for a prop. Having seen photos of him at Chiefs' training, he's lost quite a bit of excess weight and looks very fit. He's only 24 years old. It will be interesting to see whether he's SR level, or not, but he'll still have a lot to learn.
He played rugby and league (for the Wellington Orcas) while at school (St. Patrick’s College Silverstream). For Hutt Old Boys Marist, he played at prop, blindside flanker and number 8 in his first year out of school. Then he was approached by both Cronulla Sharks and Melbourne Storm, who offered him a 2-year contract, but he left Melbourne early, being very unhappy and wanting to go home. So he did, changed back to rugby at HOBM and focused on that from then on. Got his first NPC contract for Wellington in 2015 (their youngstest player that year), but didn't get much game time.
He has played for New Zealand Rugby League Under-18s in 2013 and 2014.
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O'Neill has been rested.
“He has had a really big pre-season, and we’re really mindful that he’s broken down a couple of times over the last few years and we don’t want to keep pushing him so much that he actually falls over again, we can't afford that luxury,” McMillan said.
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@gt12 said in SRA Round 4: Hurricanes v Chiefs:
@stargazer said in [SRA Round 4: Hurricanes v Chiefs](/post/555215
Tiatia appears to be a liability especially.That’s why I was happy he signed for the Chiefs, played like two good games for the Canes and was a liability the rest of them with his miracle plays that hardly came off.
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@gt12 said in SRA Round 4: Hurricanes v Chiefs:
Tiatia appears to be a liability especially.
I was very happy when eh left the Canes. As our incompetent coaches liked him and he was, except for his very first start when he looked the goods, terrible.
