Chiefs 2022
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I like the look of Narawa at 15 and Tiatia and Lowe were good too for Chiefs. Both have an eye for the gap. That finishing backline posed many threats. Josh Ioane and Roe looked sharp. Starting pack was powerful too. Good omens for depth in the Chiefs.
For MP only McRobbie Motuga and Leuila impressed me much. They may need some work in deciding their best xv.
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@antipodean , licence to go ahead with this team July last year and then 4 months to piece a competitive together , and all the best Pacific Island players are either contracted to NZ Rugby or with cashed up overseas clubs ..this first year was always going to be extremely tough under those circumstances , as long as they improve ,as for the culture side of the team , it might just be the one thing that keeps them tights .
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@steven-harris agreed. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a Warriors scenario.
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@bovidae yeah I don't see Reihana as a 15, maybe in the future, but defensively he isn't string enough and his positioning not ideal, he still needs development and as such should focus on 10 and learn what he can there.
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@taniwharugby Likely just a case of finding positions for all of the players, which is why Tiatia was on the wing. I think Reihana is a 1st 5, but he is #4 at the Chiefs so won't be getting too many opportunities in that position.
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@bovidae and probably lucky to be able to be #4 after his up and mainly down 2021 season up here...he has talent, that is without a doubt, I hope he absorbs as much as he can from the Chiefs camp as I am not sure the development will continue up here with our coaches.
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@bovidae said in Chiefs 2022:
MP will need to get their set piece sorted to be competitive. Their scrum was in trouble all game, even against the Chiefs WTG props. The lineout struggled too, perhaps due to a lack of height at lock.
McRobbie is 2 m tall.
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@bovidae said in Chiefs 2022:
That's what it will be acknowledging.
So after the weekend, 3 of the 8 Chiefs centurions will be Hawke's Bay players (I am including Retallick in that).
And If you add Cruden then that’s 4 of the 8 are Canes rejects.
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@bovidae said in Chiefs 2022:
@nepia And who is the most capped HB player from the Canes? Hewitt?
ALB is only 6 games away from 100.
I don't think he was Magpie when at the Canes so doesn't count. Karl Lowe maybe?
Some of the other HB boys might know.
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@nepia Cory Jane was a Magpie for a brief period but hat does that was only for a season so that counts him out. I suppose someone like Karl Lowe @ 41 games would be up there. Bryn Evans had 25 games but was outscored by Gareth Evans with 34 appearances however they were al headed of by Mark Abbots' total of 45, the same number incidentally that he wracked up for the Magpies. Zac Guildford (18) and Jarrod Cunningham (12) probably lead the backs tally for Magpies. Sadly The Barracuda managed just 3 games before he departed for the Highlanders.
Others that should have had more were Ash Dixon (15), Orcades Crawford (8), Gordon Falcon and Jonah Lowe bot with just 4 -
@nepia Now have to get round to disappointing you by proclaiming Chris Eaton with 27 games as the leading Magpie back at the Hurricanes (unless I can remember someone else) at this stage. I tried to surpress that but for the sake of accuracy must include it, the same for Mike Coman's 1! Also forgot about Hika Elliot's ten Hurricanes games, that's almost unforgivable, almost as bad as the Hurricanes website showing Devan Flanders still to make his debut when if they looked a bit closer they would find he would be up around the 25 game mark by now.
