Chiefs v Highlanders

[Bones]

@Canes4life said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

Landers look good when they decide to go direct.

The shuffling of the ball from side to side with zero imagination is soul destroying.

[African Monkey]

Haha surely not ....

[Tim]

Man the Chiefs have been awful for much of this game. No direction.

[Canes4life]

@Bones I literally turned it on when it was all Highlanders. Should of watched from the start.

[African Monkey]

@Tim Yeah, not their best display, they always seem to lose direction once DMac goes off too.

[cliff]

Chiefs need a better backup 10 ioane is rubbish

[African Monkey]

@cliff That missed touch changed the momentum towards the end. I think they would have cruised home until he did that from that hard earned penalty from the forwards.

[ARHS]

Yuk that was horrible. Has Dmac got a leg injury? His kicking was far less lengthy today. But things went downhill when he went off. 27% territory and 31 % possession has to be one of the lowest shares I have seen in Super rugby. They will need far more urgency v Crusaders.
Harmon, Gilbert and Tavatavanawai were a handful today.

[ploughboy]

radio was saying there was a lot of wind? chiefs had it in first half

[SBW1]

[Bones]

@ARHS I reckon he's got something going on with his hip flexor or something around there. He's been wincing every game.

[Bones]

Oh and thoughts on Gilbert were he certainly runs hard but doesn't seem hard to stop.

[Bones]

Hopefully Patchell won't be that bad again. Somebody really needs to put a rocket up Fakatava and give him some direction. All the skills and physical ability, just lacks focus.

[Dan54]

@Bones Yep I wondering if Fakatava is going to really come on, he just seems to lack the ability to really read game etc at moment.

[frugby]

@Dan54 said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

@Bones Yep I wondering if Fakatava is going to really come on, he just seems to lack the ability to really read game etc at moment.

The case of Folau Fakatava to me is really just a sad one of a guy whose career has been more or less destroyed by a serious knee injury.

Watch him pre-injury compared to now, he was so much quicker then - not to say he is slow now of course. As a result, when he dallys, it looks 10x as bad. I maintain he is guilty of trying too hard, because he definitely has a crisp pass and an elite running game... his kicking game has always been a bit of a weakness admittedly, but is that necessarily that bad a thing?

[Bovidae]

@akan004 said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

How annoying is the music.

Even worse for those of us there. Very annoying.

[Bovidae]

@Tim said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

McKenzie's exits have been pretty average today.

I don't think he is 100% fit. You see him grimacing after every punt. And the tape around both quads.

I was saying at the game that either Stevenson or ENS should have been used for exit kicks.

[Bovidae]

@cliff said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

Chiefs need a better backup 10 ioane is rubbish

Ioane is certainly rocks and diamonds. He was great off the bench against the Brumbies but has been average otherwise. DMac will need his AB rest soon.

[African Monkey]

@Bovidae There will be some easy games for him to do that in.

[Kiwiwomble]

right, i only managed to watch the 25 min highlights on stan so it might be the editing. But in the highlights Tavatavanawai gets his card with no warnings which to my bia eye was a little harsh...and they showed the chiefs getting three separate "warnings" for multiple inside their 5m with no card

was there a warning before our yellow they didnt show? was it multiple penalties in the lead up too it?

will try and watch the whole reply if i can