Chiefs v Hurricanes
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@Steven-Harris He was awesome! It's a pity that he couldn't score that try; he was so close!
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@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs v Hurricanes:
@Donsteppa oh yeah but the canes are when they give away 3 cards in the final 10 last week?
I'm no Canes fan... they can worry about that themselves
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Nice kick from jordie under pressure as well ,
That’s what you Expect from your elite players , but nice to see him do it all the same
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@Stargazer totally agree, good shift from the young man,I know talking to Tony Hanks at the Blues,they were dead keen on him..but John Plumtree had tagged him early in the Mitre 10cup..probably the best game I have seen from Jordie Barrett,thought Kirifi was very good as well..mean game ..
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@Steven-Harris IMO Jordie was a bit hot and cold. Some really good stuff, mixed with some stupid mistakes.
I like Kirifi, huge workrate and great over the ball. -
Five players stood out for me tonight and were key to the Canes victory.
G Evans: best player on the park tonight and stayed composed when it mattered. He’s in my All Blacks squad atm.
JBarrett: match winner and is coming into his own this season.
Blackwell: gets a lot of stick on here about being a lock (me included) but he really showed why he keeps getting selected. Massive ticker.
Kirifi: massive work rate and exceptional performance against Sammy Cane. One for the future.
Rakete-Stones: Game changing performance from the young prop. His work rate is out of this world.Big worry is that of Izzy Walker’s shoulder. Can we afford to lose the big man in that engine room. I’m not too sure.
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That was a terrific win. When you are 24-14 up with 20 to go and with a man advantage for the next 7 minutes, you should be putting that game away. The Chiefs were well deserving of their lead too. The big difference in the first 60 minutes was that the Chiefs kicked a lot better and edged the breakdown. Fletcher Smith's kicking game just isn't good enough.
It was a bizarre end sending the Chiefs bottle it like that. Cane assessed the situation well in his post match talk. They put themselves under pressure by a poor kicking game and let us in the game.
I wasn't thrilled with what Judd was doing in the last few minutes. He was slowing the play down which meant we weren't going anywhere. We did eventually get the penalty but I would have liked to see us take the game to the Chiefs a little bit. In the end it was a dumb penalty which you can't really say came as a result of our pressure.
Happy with the win, which was needed after last week's loss.
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@taniwharugby said in Chiefs v Hurricanes:
@antipodean hasnt always been though...
True, hence the confusion. Yet again I came away impressed by Jaco. Two obvious areas he knew perfectly well and determined correctly. I thought he was consistent and accurate too. A big difference to the worst refs in this competition.
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Jordie eh. One of his first touches is in acres of space, loads of time, from a deep kick.....sizes up the opposition, half a field and many different defenders to run at....BOOM! He's got his man and straightens at pace!
Oh he's picked Cane and turns it over.
Then has a blinder and shows his talent - but it's the stuff like above that is really worrying for him at test level.
There was some dumb play from the Canes again, some of the aimless plays/kicks. Chiefs really should have taken their opportunities better.
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@Kirwan yeah poor from the Chiefs not to shut it down, but you can’t discount the Canes effort. Immense, especially those 30+ phases before the penalty.
I actually felt the Canes looked the better team throughout most of the game, like last week we had plenty of the possession but kept botching it in the red zone.
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@Canes4life said in Chiefs v Hurricanes:
@Kirwan yeah poor from the Chiefs not to shut it down, but you can’t discount the Canes effort. Immense, especially those 30+ phases before the penalty.
35 phases of going nowhere and defended comfortably. That showed more ticker from the Chiefs than the Canes IMO, with the Canes not taking any risks and just hoping for a penalty.
The late tackle was just a brain fart.
The huge effort from the Canes was the period where they were down a man, especially as they wilted under that same pressure the week before.
Was an interesting game to watch as a neutral. This year the gap between four of the NZ sides is minimal.
