Preseason - Wild Knights v Chiefs (Feb 4th)

[booboo]

@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 Noguchi

16 Shota Horie
17 Craig Millar
18 Shouhei Hirano
19 Liam Mitchell
20 Itsuki Onishi
21 Keisuke Uchida
22 Vince Aso
23 Yamasawa Kyohei

24 Seijun Kawasaki
25 DanielPerez
26 Kazuma Shimane
27 Mark Abbott
28 Xavier Stowers

Considering 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

[Daffy Jaffy]

Tough test first game back for Tupaea, marking a quality midfield of De Allende and Riley.

[Yeetyaah]

Wild Knights chasers all offside before that kick and the resulting penalty.

[Yeetyaah]

This ref is horrible lmao. I know it's preseason but he's not giving any ruck penalties.

[Yeetyaah]

What the fuck is this lmfao

[Duluth]

Wild Knights have been impressive. Ahead 14-0 late in the first half

[Yeetyaah]

Ioane having a shocker.

[akan004]

We do have a few meatheads in NZ rugby. Dumb play.

[Yeetyaah]

[Duluth]

That was awful defence

[Yeetyaah]

Well that was a tough one to watch as a Chiefs fan. End of the day, it was just a preseason. Onwards and upwards.

[Duluth]

Wild Knights win 38-14

[Dan54]

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.

[Windows97]

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...

[Bovidae]

@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.