Preseason - Wild Knights v Chiefs (Feb 4th)
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@Daffy-Jaffy Yeah, no.8 is definitely Wrampling's best position. I've seen him play there since his time at St Paul's. He is young enough to still play for the NZ U20s this year.
I assume Parker starts next weekend.
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Wild Knights team -
1 Keita Inagaki
2 Atsushi Sakate （C）
3 Taiki Fujii
4 Esei Haangana
5 Lood de Jager
6 Shota Fukui
7 Lachlan Boshier
8 Jack Cornelsen
9 Taiki Koyama
10 Rikiya Matsuda
11 Marika Koroibete
12 Damian de Allende
13 Dylan Riley
14 Tomoki Osada
15 Ryuji Noguchi16 Shota Horie
17 Craig Millar
18 Shouhei Hirano
19 Liam Mitchell
20 Itsuki Onishi
21 Keisuke Uchida
22 Vince Aso
23 Yamasawa Kyohei24 Seijun Kawasaki
25 DanielPerez
26 Kazuma Shimane
27 Mark Abbott
28 Xavier Stowers -
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Preseason - Wild Knights v Chiefs (Feb 4th):
Wild Knights team -
1 Keita Inagaki
2 Atsushi Sakate （C）
3 Taiki Fujii
4 Esei Haangana
5 Lood de Jager
6 Shota Fukui
7 Lachlan Boshier
8 Jack Cornelsen
9 Taiki Koyama
10 Rikiya Matsuda
11 Marika Koroibete
12 Damian de Allende
13 Dylan Riley
14 Tomoki Osada
15 Ryuji Noguchi16 Shota Horie
17 Craig Millar
18 Shouhei Hirano
19 Liam Mitchell
20 Itsuki Onishi
21 Keisuke Uchida
22 Vince Aso
23 Yamasawa Kyohei24 Seijun Kawasaki
25 DanielPerez
26 Kazuma Shimane
27 Mark Abbott
28 Xavier StowersConsidering they are one of the top teams in Japan, I'm surprised by the lack of superstar names (apart from Koroibete of course).
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@LABCAT said in Preseason - Wild Knights v Chiefs (Feb 4th):
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Preseason - Wild Knights v Chiefs (Feb 4th):
Wild Knights team -
1 Keita Inagaki
2 Atsushi Sakate （C）
3 Taiki Fujii
4 Esei Haangana
5 Lood de Jager
6 Shota Fukui
7 Lachlan Boshier
8 Jack Cornelsen
9 Taiki Koyama
10 Rikiya Matsuda
11 Marika Koroibete
12 Damian de Allende
13 Dylan Riley
14 Tomoki Osada
15 Ryuji Noguchi16 Shota Horie
17 Craig Millar
18 Shouhei Hirano
19 Liam Mitchell
20 Itsuki Onishi
21 Keisuke Uchida
22 Vince Aso
23 Yamasawa Kyohei24 Seijun Kawasaki
25 DanielPerez
26 Kazuma Shimane
27 Mark Abbott
28 Xavier StowersConsidering they are one of the top teams in Japan, I'm surprised by the lack of superstar names (apart from Koroibete of course).
de Jager and De Allende aren't awful
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Tough test first game back for Tupaea, marking a quality midfield of De Allende and Riley.
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I only watched a bit, what I saw it looked a typicl preseason game, no real connections in defence etc, almost like the team has just been concentrating on fitness etc at training?? Over the years I must admit the number of preseason hit outs that have looked impressive are pretty low in number.
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Only grabbed the reply last night.
A tough watch, Chiefs clueless on attack bashing up pods into a rock wall defense with slow ball creating no space for the backs or anyone else for that matter. No attempt to pick and go or snipe or do anything to break it up.
Wild knights did a great job of playing to the ref and not rolling away, Chiefs forwards didn't show much desire to move bodies at the ruck however (aside from one lone fool stupidly getting yellow carded).
Still preseason so onwards and upwards but all it really proved was that those second stringers are second stringers for a reason...
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@Yeetyaah said in Preseason - Wild Knights v Chiefs (Feb 4th):
Well that was a tough one to watch as a Chiefs fan.
It certainly was. At least no injuries AFAIK.
Panasonic are clearly the strongest Japanese club but I can't remember the Chiefs playing as badly as that in a long time. Boshier Jr wasn't a success at 7, and clearly didn't play to the ref like his big brother. This game also showed the importance of DMac and the first-choice back three with the kicking game and counter-attack, which was almost non-existent.
