Hurricanes vs Chiefs
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Chief's debrief: "Cudda, Shudda, Wudda".
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Chiefs badly outmuscled tonight. Their pack looks a bit lightweight apart from Finau.
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Heading home from the game so will create the MOTM poll later.
Just a few thoughts from being there in person. The work-rate of Delany and our loosies was awesome, our scrummaging was immense and Perenara definitely stepped up. Backs were solid with our backfield showing plenty of nice touches.
Not sure why we don’t use Jordie when clearing from our in goal though, Cameron’s boot is not strong enough.
Great atmosphere and the game day experience at the Tin has definitely stepped up since when I last made it to a game.
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Funny how last week Wallace Sititi was the next big thing and an AB in waiting after walking through the Moana Pasifika 2nd string side, but got a good lesson last night.
Obviously he may well turn out to be that star in waiting and have a huge career ahead of him, but I think the massive hype was a tad premature.
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@pakman said in Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
Chiefs subs apart from Dyer seemed backwards steps.
Rewatch of second half. Forward replacements in fact OK for Chiefs.
But backs' defensive pattern turned to custard when Rona went off, Tuapea to 12 and Poihipi to 13. Several bad misses.
And ENS all over the place leaving holes for several breaks. Exacerbated by really poor kick straight to touch which ended up costing 7.
Had it been 29-23 with five to go would have been very interesting, given Canes's serial offences in red zone.
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@African-Monkey said in Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
Funny how last week Wallace Sititi was the next big thing and an AB in waiting after walking through the Moana Pasifika 2nd string side, but got a good lesson last night.
Obviously he may well turn out to be that star in waiting and have a huge career ahead of him, but I think the massive hype was a tad premature.
Didn't see last week. Early days for him for sure, but I thought there were some promising signs from him. There was a passage of play where he featured ball in hand multiple times and seemed to make post contact ground comfortably.
I also thought he made some pretty good tackles. A couple of times I noticed he put Aumua down. Not saying they were dominant tackles but they were text book.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
Moorby I thought his best position would be wing (not FB) but he would only be a safe option. In fact, he's been class. AB quality even
AB possible contenders (excluding the certs like Lomax and Barrett)
Love. Continues to make his case. Option taking is VG. Unlike Morrby as a FB who is a wing not FB
Naholo. Surely, he must be an option now
Proctor. He's good enough esp if the team wants a distributor at centre
Perenara. Almost a cert if he keeps this form up
Lakai. Almost a certainty now (maybe).
Iose. Great form but unlikely especially with Savea returning
IWL. Maybe not. Great, then a quiet game. Has the same issue as Shields
Delany. Maybe as a 6 - lock cover. As at 1.95 he's very likely considered far too short for an AB lock
Numea. Improving year on year and must be in consideration now
Aumua. Form NZ SRP Hooker
