AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa
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Blues team for the big game.
Fisher has fallen out of favour or injured and has missed out the match day 23 entirely. Itunu rewarded for her strong performances over recent weeks.
Puckett returns to starting halfback but it must’ve been a close call with Kahlia Awa performing exceptionally well in the past fortnight. Her Hawkes Bay first-five Cottrell will be key to the Blues go-forward as she has been all season.
The rest of the team names itself. They remain underdogs despite their recent success. The Chiefsaders are big game players and will want to right the wrongs of last year’s final.
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@KiwiMurph said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
That Blues reserve 9 was very good.
She’s awesome. Apparently been earmarked since school. Definitely deserves a BF contract. I actually think both Puckett and Awa deserve the call up. I don’t think AMT (the incumbent) has been at all impressive in the backend of the season. Hohaia should be the incumbent.
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@Donsteppa said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
A couple of the Chiefs ladies will have unhappy memories of that last 20 minutes for a long time...
Chelsea Semple’s BF career is pretty much over (or should be) after that howler. In the pouring rain, it should’ve been kicked to Ngaruawahia. They were still ahead at that point.
Reese Anderson the newbie has had a terrible two weeks. Vahaakolo should never have been allowed to run around her for that try.
Second year in a row that the Chiefs snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The pressure of finals footy.
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@Auckman said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
@Donsteppa said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
A couple of the Chiefs ladies will have unhappy memories of that last 20 minutes for a long time...
Chelsea Semple’s BF career is pretty much over (or should be) after that howler. In the pouring rain, it should’ve been kicked to Ngaruawahia. They were still ahead at that point.
Reese Anderson the newbie has had a terrible two weeks. Vahaakolo should never have been allowed to run around her for that try.
Second year in a row that the Chiefs snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The pressure of finals footy.
Vahaakolo's try reminded me a bit of David Campese running right around the concrete-footed 1991 All Blacks backline.
Semple's was the stuff nightmares are made of, and at the worst possible time. Fall over, recover, don't kick, draw the two defenders towards you and don't pass, and then lose the ball in contact...
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@Auckman said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
Chelsea Semple’s BF career is pretty much over (or should be) after that howler. In the pouring rain, it should’ve been kicked to Ngaruawahia
She could have simply put the ball down and taken a goal line drop out. Would have been a far better option than what she did
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@KiwiMurph said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
@Auckman said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
Chelsea Semple’s BF career is pretty much over (or should be) after that howler. In the pouring rain, it should’ve been kicked to Ngaruawahia
She could have simply put the ball down and taken a goal line drop out. Would have been a far better option than what she did
Could have grounded the ball, kicked the ball, or passed the ball - basically anything other than what she did
