Chiefs squad

Baron Silas Greenback

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You can totally understand why you wouldn't want your rep team playing at Bay park at this level. Hardly showing off your brand to the wider audience when you see them rock up at a speedway track.
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I wonder how many people would not support the Chiefs because they played once a year at a field inside a speedway track?I would predict zero. In fact I would wonder about the mental state of anyone that would watch a game on TV and decide they wouldn't support a team because occasionally they get a glimpse of some dirt in the corner of your screen during one match a season.
And even if there were a few.. the easiest support to get is inside your catchment area, all those kids and fans in Tauranga actually getting to see a game in person would result in far more positive marketing.
 
But keep going.. the attempts to explain it are good.

Hooroo

Why do you think they don't play at Bay park?
 
Representing your brand in the best possible way isn't to do with a watchers mental defficiency or otherwise.

Crucial

Just possibly they don't care for the support of people that call them redneck twunts?

Bovidae

I seriously doubt that the coach or players have the final say on where the team plays. These decisions are usually made at board level, which includes someone from Tauranga.

Bovidae

As expected the Chiefs will have co-captains again: Cane and Cruden.

mikedogz

Nepo Laulala out for 12 Months with a knee injury, Dominic Bird out for 10 weeks with a foot fracture.

Gunner

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Nepo Laulala out for 12 Months with a knee injury, Dominic Bird out for 10 weeks with a foot fracture.
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Signings of the year right there

Unco

FFS. The season hasn't even started and that's two big blows. Least it isn't Cruden, BBBR or Cane, I guess.

tubbyj

Bad couple of blows that. probably moves them down a bracket leaving them in the middle with the Highlanders and Canes fighting it out for the top and Blues and Chiefs for the bottom.

mariner4life

you fucking can't trust cantabs
 
 
 
 
 
terrible news for both lads. Both would have had real hopes of the move being a springboard back to the ABs this year. Bad for the team as well. Fuck. 
 
Getting this hurt in training must be the worst feeling ever.

KiwiMurph

Yeah that sucks. At least Nepo has Cruden around as a mentor of how to get through long term knee injuries and Bird should feature later in the tournament.

Unco

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Bad couple of blows that. probably moves them down a bracket leaving them in the middle with the Highlanders and Canes fighting it out for the top and Blues and Chiefs for the bottom.
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Uh, what?

Bovidae

Sammy, how can you like that post? I wouldn't wish an injury on any player, even a Cantab!
 
Moli will be thrown in the deep end now off the bench. At least this has happened early enough in the season that contingency plans can be made.

No Quarter

I don't really care about the Crusaders or the Chiefs but I was really hoping Nepo would continue to develop this year. That is a blow to the ABs depth.

SammyC

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Sammy, how can you like that post? 
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Because it's the Chiefs... and I hate them.
 
I'm actually a big supporter of both players, especially Nepo whom I've watched at club level for a few years now.
 
Nepo had a lot of support down here when he broke his back a couple of years ago. Hope he gets the same up there.

Hooroo

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Because it's the Chiefs... and I hate them.
 
I'm actually a big supporter of both players, especially Nepo whom I've watched at club level for a few years now.
 
Nepo had a lot of support down here when he broke his back a couple of years ago. Hope he gets the same up there.
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Nah, they will just flag him and hope he recovers miraculously without support and help.
 
Team has probably forgotten his name already

Crucial

Jarrod Firth a possibility to step back into the squad.
 
What happened to that big unit lock from Waikato? He wasn't in the ITM cup. was he injured?

Crucial

Also Jacob Skeen. He could be an option.

bobily

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Jarrod Firth a possibility to step back into the squad.
 
What happened to that big unit lock from Waikato? He wasn't in the ITM cup. was he injured?
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Brian Alainu'uese? They have brought him in to help out with injuries before, so that is a good call. I think he tends to be injured as soon as ITM Cup rugby comes around. Perhaps his huge frame (135kg) works against him, at times.

Crucial

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Brian Alainu'uese? They have brought him in to help out with injuries before, so that is a good call. I think he tends to be injured as soon as ITM Cup rugby comes around. Perhaps his huge frame (135kg) works against him, at times.
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That's the one.

The Silver Fern

Chiefs squad