Chiefs v Brumbies

[antipodean]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[KiwiMurph]

That's not gonna help the points difference

[Bones]

That's karma for every fucking bullshit pass that went to hand.

[gt12]

Looks like a much better win than it was.

[antipodean]

A no look pass 5m from your own line.

I'm still laughing.

[booboo]

Flattering but we'll take it.

[Dan54]

Geez again, these games are incredible.

[Steven Harris]

Great contest well done the chiefs
Big ups to the Brumbies you know you have a competitive comp when Games are coming down to 50/50 calls ,a missed opportunity here or there and nailing your goalkicking

[antipodean]

Credit where it's due:

Brumbies are a talented and niggly cheating side. Not the start they wanted to the season but they'll go deep.

Chiefs look like the real deal early on.

[SBW1]

Pretty sure the Chiefs rested a fair few players for this game. Chiefs surely must now be the pacesetters.

[Mattasaurus]

Best game I've watched for a some time.

[SBW1]

[Frank]

Is Jacomb looking AB level ? (asking keenly hoping for a Beauden Barret replacement)

[NTA]

@Bones said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

That's karma for every fucking bullshit pass that went to hand.

Which team are we talking about?

[NTA]

Dissenters will say Super Rugby has no defence, but how the fuck do you defend against some of this stuff?

Both sides running out of numbers just through fast ball movement.

The Northern Hemisphere mind cannot comprehend such attack.

[Bones]

@Frank said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

Is Jacomb looking AB level ? (he asking keenly hoping for a Beauden Barret replacement)

Not yet. Godfrey looking better.

[Bones]

@NTA said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

@Bones said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

That's karma for every fucking bullshit pass that went to hand.

Which team are we talking about?

Not the waratahs anyway.

[NTA]

@Bones said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

@Frank said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

Is Jacomb looking AB level ? (he asking keenly hoping for a Beauden Barret replacement)

Not yet. Godfrey looking better.

Godfrey looks like the kid who always had to play with bigger kids and learned to be a tough little fluffybunny doing it.

Good to watch.

[Mauss]

@Darren said in Chiefs v Brumbies:

Brumbies just keep seeming to have an extra man out wide. Seems Chiefs having a hard time numbering up.

Just watched the game and this was quite noticeable. The Brumbies are, at times, using double backdoor pods in attack, which can create easy overlaps in the backline. It's a system used by quite a few teams. Taranaki, through their attack coach Brad Cooper, have used it to good effect. He also employed it with the NZ U20s last season.

You can recognize it pretty easily when you see attack lining up in a so-called "stack formation", creating extra options out wide.

Example from game against Drua

Typical is that the wings come in-field to act as extra passing options, in order to outnumber the defence.

I suppose what is surprising to me is that it took the Chiefs so long to find defensive solutions for it. What you want to do against this attack is launch defenders into those backdoor options. When the Chiefs finally started doing that - in the 80th minute - ALB scored that turnover try.

[Bones]

@Mauss chiefs weren't helped by Mataele being an atrocious decision maker on defence.