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    Nevorian
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    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    I think the only choking from the Chiefs really was the decision to kick for goal

    And if Ratima had scored that try they may have kicked on

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    Interesting stat from Rugbypass: the Chiefs ended up making more tackles. IIRC, the Blues had to make a lot more tackles in the first half.

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    @MiketheSnow said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Only watched highlights

    Great contest

    Chiefs choked like the Irish

    Losing and advancing to a home SF just shows how retarded the 'organisers' of SR are

    Isnt it the reward for being top seeds?

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    @Frank said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @MiketheSnow said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Only watched highlights

    Great contest

    Chiefs choked like the Irish

    Losing and advancing to a home SF just shows how retarded the 'organisers' of SR are

    Isnt it the reward for being top seeds?

    Play an extra meaningless match?

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    Being real, not starting your best loose forward, because you want “impact” is woke nonsense. Wallace Sititi should be playing the 80. Monumental error from McMillan.

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    @Duluth said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Just looking at that last try again. A hell of an effort from Beehre

    "Big players pull off big plays at big moments" John Madden

    Beehre did exactly that.

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    @Duluth I noticed on a replay of Eklund's try that Papalii was driving him over the line with the assist.

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    @frugby said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Being real, not starting your best loose forward, because you want “impact” is woke nonsense. Wallace Sititi should be playing the 80. Monumental error from McMillan.

    Sititi seemed to go missing when the going got tough for his team - like he did in last years final.

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    Mr Fish
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    @brodean said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @frugby said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Being real, not starting your best loose forward, because you want “impact” is woke nonsense. Wallace Sititi should be playing the 80. Monumental error from McMillan.

    Sititi seemed to go missing when the going got tough for his team - like he did in last years final.

    The Chiefs were almost exclusively defending for the final 20 minutes or so. Not too much a player can do in that situation (except maybe strip Sotutu of the ball and send the Chiefs off on a counter attack).

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    Will be interesting to see where Papali'i is in terms of AB selection. His name has barely been mentioned all year, but does he have a role there? Hard to know whether he's in the picture or not.

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    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @brodean said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @frugby said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Being real, not starting your best loose forward, because you want “impact” is woke nonsense. Wallace Sititi should be playing the 80. Monumental error from McMillan.

    Sititi seemed to go missing when the going got tough for his team - like he did in last years final.

    The Chiefs were almost exclusively defending for the final 20 minutes or so. Not too much a player can do in that situation (except maybe strip Sotutu of the ball and send the Chiefs off on a counter attack).

    Maybe he could make some hard tackles and win some turnovers for his team?

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    Mr Fish
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    @brodean That's exactly what he did?

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    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @brodean That's exactly what he did?

    He did nothing of the sort in that last 20. He made a few low impact tackles but nothing to prevent the Blues getting over the gain line.

    He won a turnover out wide in the backs. He did nothing to stop the Blues forwards.

    He let Kurt Eclund's try in.

    He's not particularly strong in the maul and rarely joined when the Blues were using their maul. It was Vaa'i and Finau doing most of the work defending the Blues mauls.

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    @Nevorian said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    I think the only choking from the Chiefs really was the decision to kick for goal

    And if Ratima had scored that try they may have kicked on

    If

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    Sliding doors, but Beauden's non-try also canceled it out in the battle of the butter fingers.

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    @brodean said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @brodean That's exactly what he did?

    He did nothing of the sort in that last 20. He made a few low impact tackles but nothing to prevent the Blues getting over the gain line.

    He won a turnover out wide in the backs. He did nothing to stop the Blues forwards.

    He let Kurt Eclund's try in.

    He's not particularly strong in the maul and rarely joined when the Blues were using their maul. It was Vaa'i and Finau doing most of the work defending the Blues mauls.

    Impressive that Finau and Vaa'i on their own were basically able to counter the whole Blues forward pack at the maul.

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    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @brodean said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @Mr-Fish said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @brodean That's exactly what he did?

    He did nothing of the sort in that last 20. He made a few low impact tackles but nothing to prevent the Blues getting over the gain line.

    He won a turnover out wide in the backs. He did nothing to stop the Blues forwards.

    He let Kurt Eclund's try in.

    He's not particularly strong in the maul and rarely joined when the Blues were using their maul. It was Vaa'i and Finau doing most of the work defending the Blues mauls.

    Impressive that Finau and Vaa'i on their own were basically able to counter the whole Blues forward pack at the maul.

    Most of the work doesn't mean all of the work. The frontrow contributed. Not so much Sititi.

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    I thought it was interesting when Beauden was interviewed post game the first person he mentioned when asked about his kick strategy was Vern Cotter - really crediting him

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    Dan54
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    @KiwiMurph I noticed that too . Said Cotter had it laid out .

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    reprobate
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    @brodean said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    @frugby said in QF Chiefs v Blues:

    Being real, not starting your best loose forward, because you want “impact” is woke nonsense. Wallace Sititi should be playing the 80. Monumental error from McMillan.

    Sititi seemed to go missing when the going got tough for his team - like he did in last years final.

    I think you've said this a couple of times re last year, but it isn't correct. IIRC Sititi made the most tackles for the Chiefs in that final, 20-something. It was a very different game to the attacking display against the Canes, but as a loosie in a losing team it was a strong individual performance . To me it just showed that he is good going forwards and backwards.
    He certainly wasn't dominant last night - but he was not really bad either - and there were mitigating factors in losing Jacobson, which shifted the plan from subbing (probably) Finau to needing him to play 80, then losing Parker to injury, so playing with 6 forwards i.e..2 loosies, and one of them knackered cause he's been playing half games all year.

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