Crusaders v Chiefs
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As the former groundsman of the Chiefs Ruakura training ground ,I can assure you that after the renovation it was and still is a perfect surface.The other training ground on the campus was uneven but didn’t stop Tom Coventry using it to work his forwards relentlessly.Bust ups among the front rows very common. My brother voluntarily maintains Fred Jones and a better club ground in Hamilton would be hard to find. By the way the Chiefs won their first Super title using the old soccer field.,before the renovation.,and the Council’s Beetham Park wasn’t up to standard for the recent World Sevens.
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@trodthesod you do know that coming in with actual knowledge isn’t the done thing on the fern
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@trodthesod One day my brother was watching Tom working the forwards on the railway line field and to his horror saw a right real bust up amongst Tom’s forwards Liam Messam,and Josh Honeck getting stuck into each other.When approached later on about the incident Tom said he was happy with both players,one for flaring up and the other retaliating,all good he said.
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@trodthesod said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
@trodthesod One day my brother was watching Tom working the forwards on the railway line field and to his horror saw a right real bust up amongst Tom’s forwards Liam Messam,and Josh Honeck getting stuck into each other.When approached later on about the incident Tom said he was happy with both players,one for flaring up and the other retaliating,all good he said.
Sounds like he still encourages bust ups going by the stories in the Blues thread.
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@trodthesod I was hoping you'd comment on this subject.
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@Bovidae Think this could be the Chiefs year again.They looked strong at Pukekohe.
Come to the Ruakura cafe on the last Tuesday each month for a coffee and catch up 10.am.Has been going for nearly a year now..Former staff,good fun. -
Think we lose this game, but will hopefully see them later on in the season and be a bit more dangerous.
It looks like McMillan has finally figured out how to select a backline. Let's hope some asshole doesn't do a flying dive on Alaimalo and put him out for a year - I'm hoping that he'll be the winger we've been looking to match alongside Stevenson.
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DMac is best when he doesn’t have to do it all himself and there could be an excellent partnership with Stevenson brewing.
If we can get something like the old DMac/Lowe days going it will be fireworks.
Defences need to stay back a little with Stevenson’s boot which opens a bit of space for the little guy. -
@gt12 said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Think we lose this game, but will hopefully see them later on in the season and be a bit more dangerous.
It looks like McMillan has finally figured out how to select a backline. Let's hope some asshole doesn't do a flying dive on Alaimalo and put him out for a year - I'm hoping that he'll be the winger we've been looking to match alongside Stevenson.
don't write off Narawa who injured, he's 4 years younger than Alaimalo. Emoni was the one of the more dangerous wingers in SR last year and was better than many of the players who made All Blacks & AB XV squads IMO. Alaimalo is already 27, I don't see him ahead of Narawa going forward.
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@kiwi_expat said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
@gt12 said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Think we lose this game, but will hopefully see them later on in the season and be a bit more dangerous.
It looks like McMillan has finally figured out how to select a backline. Let's hope some asshole doesn't do a flying dive on Alaimalo and put him out for a year - I'm hoping that he'll be the winger we've been looking to match alongside Stevenson.
don't write off Narawa who injured, he's 4 years younger than Alaimalo. Emoni was the one of the more dangerous wingers in SR last year and was better than many of the players who made All Blacks & AB XV squads IMO. Alaimalo is already 27, I don't see him ahead of Narawa going forward.
I'm not.
I only mentioned two names from the back three.
I'd have Narawa in competition with ENS if Alaimalo works out, but if he's better, then that's great too. -
There was a Stuff article about that yesterday.
The other stat:
Friday night’s opening-round contest against the Crusaders in Christchurch will be the first time in 62 Chiefs games, and just the second in the last 71, that McKenzie and fellow All Blacks Brodie Retallick and Sam Cane – three of the club’s five-most-capped current players – will have played alongside one another.
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@Crucial said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Those Chiefs jerseys seem to be a little more red and black than I remember them being.
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@Crucial that’s fucking crazy to think about. Crusaders would do well to keep us under 50
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@Yeahtheboys said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
@Crucial that’s fucking crazy to think about. Crusaders would do well to keep us under 50
For the ABs they last played together in the 2021 loss to France (for 9 minutes)
August 2018 v Oz in Sydney they were all on the field together for minutes 43-70 (DMac on wing)
The last time they started together in black was 17 Sept 2017! That was the drubbing of SA at NH Stadium.
Quite amazing how little time they have had on field together and not something I would have guessed.
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Every sniff of the air just smells like a chiefs victory today
