Chiefs 2025
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Article seems to work here
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I'm glad the struggling Chiefs have managed to add some much needed firepower to their pop-gun backline
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Oli Mathis. Currently with the Crusaders as cover
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@SouthernMann said in Chiefs 2025:
I'm glad the struggling Chiefs have managed to add some much needed firepower to their pop-gun backline
there a fair chance chiefs missed out on JRK and tangatau when they signed for highlanders
but I take your point it not helpful to competition.
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@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:
Obviously my opinion is from a Chiefs supporter perspective but at the end of the day players go where they want to go right?
Yeah but remember people slammed the Crusaders when Amua signed with them same scenario here.
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@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:
Obviously my opinion is from a Chiefs supporter perspective but at the end of the day players go where they want to go right?
Completely. Which is part of the problem. NZR pays their salaries, and allows certain franchises to stockpile players. The better the spread. The better NZR looks around the competency of its players ans teams show casing their skills every week.
NZR has a role to offer a bit of a guiding hand. Encouraging a good spread.
Bit different in this case as I'm not totally sure on the financial relationship between NZR and MP contracted players.
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@Chris said in Chiefs 2025:
@Frank said in Chiefs 2025:
Who was that NPC player who played for Waikato on the wing last year but is actually a loose forward? Forgot his name.
Oli Mathis he is currently injury cover for Dom Gardiner at the Crusaders
He looked like a star at NPC level......
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@Chris said in Chiefs 2025:
@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:
Obviously my opinion is from a Chiefs supporter perspective but at the end of the day players go where they want to go right?
Yeah but remember people slammed the Crusaders when Amua signed with them same scenario here.
Expect the Chiefs to cop some.Same again, he can do what he likes providing there's an opportunity for him to do so?
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@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:
@Chris said in Chiefs 2025:
@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:
Obviously my opinion is from a Chiefs supporter perspective but at the end of the day players go where they want to go right?
Yeah but remember people slammed the Crusaders when Amua signed with them same scenario here.
Expect the Chiefs to cop some.Same again, he can do what he likes providing there's an opportunity for him to do so?
Yes and no Mathis is not playing for another franchise as a full contracted player.
I understand Kyren wanting to be an AB and moving for his own reasons.
But it is bad that MP are leaking players again Amua going to the crusaders was bad as well,and jimmy going to the Landers was as bad.
MP are really building as a franchise if they keep leaking top players they are going to collapse I don't want to see that I think MP is a breath of fresh air for SR.
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That article explains the financial reasons for Taumoefolau to go, but going to the Chiefs is a bit of a risk. As has been pointed out, it isn't like he walks in and starts... if everyone was fit and firing, as of now he makes the Chiefs bench at best - despite how good he has been.
Look at Aumua - the grass is not always greener...
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@gt12 said in Chiefs 2025:
And Crusaders keep your fucking hands off Mathis.
I can tell you that they are working to keep him around for next season. Whether it happens is another story, but they are working to try and get something done with him.
Moana Pasifika set to lose another star as Chiefs eye top talent
