Chiefs 2019
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@Donsteppa said in Chiefs 2019:
@Hooroo said in Chiefs 2019:
@Tim all I hear is Aucklanders doing the Muttley laugh when whenever I see Chiefs mentioned
The Blues are playing yet another season like they've all had to be kicked off the Playstation to be there, but they'll still be a comfortable fourth in the NZ conference.
If Harry Plummer had kicked that first round penalty, the fans would be planning the pictures on the jumbo jet and the ticker tape parade.
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@Donsteppa said in Chiefs 2019:
The Blues are playing yet another season like they've all had to be kicked off the Playstation to be there, but they'll still be a comfortable fourth in the NZ conference.
Hey, if we play well it could be third!
nah, you're right. Fourth, and we'll be not too disappointed with it
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@Stargazer said in Chiefs 2019:
@mariner4life I think it has a lot to do with lack of confidence. At some stage during their last game, several Chiefs players looked like they were panicking. Mental skills probably a worse problem than other skills.
So how do we fix this? Hire Gilbert Enoka? Something needs to be done and bloody quick
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@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs 2019:
Good to see common sense being applied.
We don't want that - the Chiefs will break him.
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Interesting discussion of the Chiefs woes on the Shortball podcast today. Apparently (new defence coach) Neil Barnes came up with a new defensive system, and trained the players with it. When the AB's returned it was found that "it would take too long to get them up to speed with it", so it was abandoned. Hence their defence is truly shit.
Problems with returning ABs not getting with the program are vintage Blues stuff. This also goes along with the rumours of senior players and coaches not seeing eye-to-eye. Perhaps it is a player attitude problem?
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Something sounds very amateur about that.
It can't be that the ABs aren't professional enough to learn, so it could be attitude, but they still have Cane and BBBR - can't seem them being problematic and they are senior enough to take others with them.
So, it is more likely that the system had some problems - perhaps pointed out by the returning players, or that it takes too long for training, in which case it's too complex (but what kind of defence is that complicated).
And this is also separate to them straight up missing tackles - which is why I assume ENS has been sat down - I think he has been missing 3-4 a game.
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What do you mean by that?
I would have thought that the AB coaches would be liaising with the franchises and I can't see how the Chiefs couldn't have just rested the ABs until they worked out the new system.
On reflection, I think it has to be something else, like perhaps the players seeing through the coaches and wondering why the fuck they are being trained by people not good enough to be there? If there is a player attitude problem, I'll bet it starts with that - many of these guys had Rennie and Smith and Coventry and may quite simply think that these guys are muppets. That's what the evidence suggests so far.
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@gt12 Frankly, the NZRU has been pulling players out of games and preseason training in Super Rugby and the NPC, and it's really showing it's effect this year. Those competitions are not treated as first class, and it damages the product. I was really pissed off with how they pulled players out of the NPC playoffs, and put AB's back into them, with zero regard for how it affected the competition.
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I see. I agree that these competitions get the short-end sometimes, but I'm not as worried about it or at least what I want to say is that as long as the Abs keep winning, I have n problem with it. I'll happily have a winless Chiefs season if it ends up with the ABs winning the world cup.
Right now though the Chiefs problems aren't, IMO, a problem of the ABs or treatment of teams by the NZRU - it's simpler than that - just shitty coaching and selecting.
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@gt12 The problem is, that if the NZRU's stewardship of the sub-AB game stays like this, then you aren't going to have as many fans watching, and supporting the bottom line. There's a hell of a lot more non-AB viewing hours.
Look at the North Shore - rugby's popularity has really slid there, despite a fast growing population. My and my friends' nephews and sons don't give a shit about rugby.
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i beleive the cheifs have been trying to get another coach in to help with the defence.barnes did well with the forwards last year but is strugling with defence this year.
i thought a canterbury poster here said that matson was shit and were happy to see the back of him.last year i thought we went backwards in our back play and this year is worse so if that poster looks to be corect -
I'm not completely disagreeing with your point - those competitions are important - only arguing that I don't see that as the problem here. I'm not being turned off the Chiefs right now because of NZRU, I'm being turned off because we plan like a team with no offensive nor defensive planning or systems. As @ploughboy has mentioned, that seems to be a coaching issue, and if we need help then that's where I'd be unhappy with the NZRU if they didn't step in and start throwing their weight around to get these players being developed.
Certainly, so far, our back play and offense has been 'pass it to Dmac', so WTF Matson is doing, I don't know. Plus of course, our defense (Barnes), and our skills (Strawbridge)...
