SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs
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After the Crusaders game, Leon made it seem like Tanielu Telea was a big part of our master plan to change things up, but we get it in this game and there was nothing special about it.
I did feel bad for Telea, because Leon yanks him off at the 44th minute mark. Only props get subbed that early after halftime.
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@dan54 said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@crazy-horse said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@taniwharugby said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@crazy-horse but the referrals are arse, seems unanimous, so there
I hate them when they go against my team!
I hate that they are used, it's against everything I taught young fellas when I coached them.
But I have no argument about us (or me at least) being called a grumpy old man
Seems like referrals probably even violate the Laws of Rugby.
9.28 Players must respect the authority of the referee. They must not dispute the referee’s decisions.
I guess since that Law comes under foul play, you could refer anyone disputing with the ref.
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I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the Chiefs, and they were right in the game for 70 mins. Kapeli had a huge defensive game, Florence had impact off the bench and Lord was a nuisance in the lineout. Norris was probably the best prop on the field. Good to see the Chiefs building some depth.
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@chris-b said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
I guess since that Law comes under foul play, you could refer anyone disputing with the ref.
ha ha, that would be comedy gold. Get opposition halfbacks penalised continuously with disputing the ref decision
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@nzzp said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@chris-b said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
I guess since that Law comes under foul play, you could refer anyone disputing with the ref.
ha ha, that would be comedy gold. Get opposition halfbacks penalised continuously with disputing the ref decision
If you timed your referral well, the outrage would be something to behold.
The refs would enjoy it - once they realised what you were doing. You'd probably want to have memorized the Law number!
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One of the big bonuses coming out of this game is the potential to use a few of these new players in SuperTT given the horrible draw the Chiefs have. Potential to give some frontliners a travel rest in a couple of games.
The selection to travel to Perth could be interesting. -
I think Tele'a is a poor fit with Black at 10.
Black stands deep in the pocket and is almost no threat to run.
Meanwhile Tele'a is not a strong distributor. So the defense can easily key in on Tele'a beside Black as they know that Black won't run or even if he does he's not particularly dangerous.
Tele'a would be better suited to a 10 who plays flatter to the line and goes at the line.
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@kiwimurph said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
I think Tele'a is a poor fit with Black at 10.
Black stands deep in the pocket and is almost no threat to run.
Meanwhile Tele'a is not a strong distributor. So the defense can easily key in on Tele'a beside Black as they know that Black won't run or even if he does he's not particularly dangerous.
Tele'a would be better suited to a 10 who plays flatter to the line and goes at the line.
We'll take him for this weekend then. Alongside DMac for the line bending or holding the D so the skip pass can go to ALB.
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@kiwimurph said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Tele'a would be better suited to a 10 who plays flatter to the line and goes at the line.
It did seem strange that the Plummer-Tele'a combo wasn't used again in this match after MacDonald making such a big deal about the reason they were picked for the Crusaders game.
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For the Blues, Sotutu and Robinson were really good. Sotutu seemed to rise to the challenge of facing the big Chiefs No. 8. Best game this year IMHO. Robinson just goes and goes at 100% and making some really dominant tackles.
The lack of awareness of space and putting the person outside of you into space by the Blues backs was just criminal. Really like Riko on the wing but as a centre, his default position is to pull the ears back and go for the line. The new fullback completely ignored a free Clarke outside of him on a number of occasions as well. For the backs, the parts are there but the machine has a few things to work on.
Clarke is soooo out of form! Even defensively he is running around like a headless chook. Is he looking to beat the man or just run into people? Why is he never in the right place?
The Chiefs are really on their way up, aren't they?. The head coach is getting a good rap now (McMillian?). There seems to be a really good crop of very young looseheads coming through the ranks at Super level (and esp. at the Chiefs). Surely Foster needs to take a punt of one or two with the 2023 World Cup in mind. If Moody goes down just prior or loses form..... -
@old-samurai-jack said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
For the Blues, Sotutu and Robinson were really good. Sotutu seemed to rise to the challenge of facing the big Chiefs No. 8. Best game this year IMHO. Robinson just goes and goes at 100% and making some really dominant tackles.
The lack of awareness of space and putting the person outside of you into space by the Blues backs was just criminal. Really like Riko on the wing but as a centre, his default position is to pull the ears back and go for the line. The new fullback completely ignored a free Clarke outside of him on a number of occasions as well. For the backs, the parts are there but the machine has a few things to work on.
Clarke is soooo out of form! Even defensively he is running around like a headless chook. Is he looking to beat the man or just run into people? Why is he never in the right place?
The Chiefs are really on their way up, aren't they?. The head coach is getting a good rap now (McMillian?). There seems to be a really good crop of very young looseheads coming through the ranks at Super level (and esp. at the Chiefs). Surely Foster needs to take a punt of one or two with the 2023 World Cup in mind. If Moody goes down just prior or loses form.....Sotutu and Sowakula both had their best games in a while, might be a Fijian v Fijian thing that had them both going hard.
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@kiwimurph said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
I think Tele'a is a poor fit with Black at 10.
Black stands deep in the pocket and is almost no threat to run.
Meanwhile Tele'a is not a strong distributor. So the defense can easily key in on Tele'a beside Black as they know that Black won't run or even if he does he's not particularly dangerous.
Tele'a would be better suited to a 10 who plays flatter to the line and goes at the line.
That was why he was selected with Plummer.
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@kiwimurph said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@pakman which begs the question why was he selected with Black this last game?
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The biggest takeaway for me is trying to get my head around the contribution of Tanielu Teleʻa..
Leon MacDonald told us in an interview after Crusaders game that the loss of Tele’a early in the game had disrupted the Blues attacking game plan ..After Saturday evening ,I saw nothing that even resembled any sort of creativeness from the backs with Tele’a being a pivotal part of the Blues attack ..!
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@old-samurai-jack said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Clarke is soooo out of form! Even defensively he is running around like a headless chook. Is he looking to beat the man or just run into people? Why is he never in the right place?
Caleb Clarke massively out of form this season. Don't know what's going if its injury or a mental thing or poor coaching but his work rate is significantly below that expected of an AB starting wing.
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@steven-harris Yeah Tele'a at this level is no more than a 20 minute impact player off the bench. He doesn't have the skill set to play in the midfield.
For now, he's a winger who can fill in at centre, no more. He's certainly no 12.
