Chiefs v Force
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Top performance by Chiefs tight five against international players. Ross Vaai and Finau were huge. Great cameo from our 19yr old prop Josh too. Still bothered by the poor quality of kicking and passing in the backs but Gatland was improved tonite and Tupaea and Weber went well.
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@ARHS said in Chiefs v Force:
Top performance by Chiefs tight five against international players. Ross Vaai and Finau were huge. Great cameo from our 19yr old prop Josh too. Still bothered by the poor quality of kicking and passing in the backs but Gatland was improved tonite and Tupaea and Weber went well.
Anstee was very good for Force.I’d add to that list with Slater and Jacobsen.
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@ARHS said in Chiefs v Force:
Top performance by Chiefs tight five against international players. Ross Vaai and Finau were huge.
Finau was immense on defence, with plenty of dominant tackles. ESPN says 17 with no misses. The forwards played fairly well considering who was missing after Cane left the field.
PGS had an average game in his 50th giving away too many dumb penalties.
The backs need plenty of work, particularly the back three. Narawa was anonymous and the only times Tiatia and Trask featured were for the wrong reasons. It would be nice to get some players back before the QF. They got the 5 pts needed.
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@Bovidae said in Chiefs v Force:
@ARHS said in Chiefs v Force:
Top performance by Chiefs tight five against international players. Ross Vaai and Finau were huge.
Finau was immense on defence, with plenty of dominant tackles. ESPN says 17 with no misses. The forwards played fairly well considering who was missing after Cane left the field.
PGS had an average game in his 50th giving away too many dumb penalties.
The backs need plenty of work, particularly the back three. Narawa was anonymous and the only times Tiatia and Trask featured were for the wrong reasons. It would be nice to get some players back before the QF. They got the 5 pts needed.
Back three was identified as an issue before the season started and no one has demanded selection since.
I would be tempted to change ( if it’s not too late) to having both Gatland and Ioane playing. ENS is best of a poor bunch aside from that. -
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@Stargazer said in Chiefs v Force:
@Crucial Lowe has been way better than ENS.
I would be happy with Lowe, ENS and Ioane.
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Given that Stevenson is probably part of our best back three (leaving, I assume, which is why he is unsighted), I'd say our best back three should be (11) ENS, (14) Lowe, (15) Stevenson.
However, McMillan will have to select his BOP baby, so the best we can hope for is ENS, Lowe, and Trask.
