Blues vs. Chiefs
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Oh well better than our usual close loss we usually take against NZ teams.
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@gt12 said in Blues vs. Chiefs:
Good work by the blues - shame they didn't win - they played better.
This is just an ordinary chiefs team though. They consistently turn the ball over and leave points on the field. We'll lose in the first round of the playoffs.
It's their playing style though. They chance their arm a lot and when it comes off it is the goods. I find it entertaining.
In the playoffs they would hopefully pick the moments better in bad conditions. They back themselves to make something out of nothing as per that last try. -
Probably a fair result given the way both teams played and the conditions did deteriorate during the game.
Some desperate defence by both, but some very poor skills. Turnovers galore.
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@Crucial said in Blues vs. Chiefs:
@gt12 said in Blues vs. Chiefs:
Good work by the blues - shame they didn't win - they played better.
This is just an ordinary chiefs team though. They consistently turn the ball over and leave points on the field. We'll lose in the first round of the playoffs.
It's their playing style though. They chance their arm a lot and when it comes off it is the goods. I find it entertaining.
In the playoffs they would hopefully pick the moments better in bad conditions. They back themselves to make something out of nothing as per that last try.I'm working on the theory that they're foxing it a bit until the play offs.
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There's our Jimmy doing the interview in his headgear......
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Another good piece of play in the AB watch category was in the last minute as the Blues tried to break on the right hand side. Watch Cruden call a defensive mark from well inside and come across at an angle to make a tackle so that his outside defenders didn't have to commit. If one of them had come in and an offload made the Blues would have broken out.
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@African-Monkey He's played well the last few weeks. Certainly better than Riccitelli (poor this season) and Harris.
He's behind Taylor, Coltman, and Coles though.
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I know it was a very small sample size (like 5 passes) but Nock's pass looked a hell of a lot better than Pulu's. Pulu does a lot of good stuff but his passing meant the Blues ball runners were on the back foot a lot when they didnt have to be.
Blues 9 and 10 costing them - what a surprise...
Thought that was SBW's best game this season.
Edit - Also nice of Collins to save his one handling error til the after the siren ending any chance of a win
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Suck a fucking dick, retard.
Chiefs by how many?
You'll remember Blues forward Steven Luatua being sent off - and rightly so - the last time these teams met.
His absence, and some cheap late points, helped Blues sympathisers suggest the match had resembled a contest. It wasn't at any stage.
The Chiefs dismantled the Blues' scrum and lineout in clinical fashion and I'm not sure I've enjoyed a display a forward domination more this season.
The final score of 41-26 didn't indicate the extent of the Chiefs' superiority, but they'll get a chance to right that at Eden Park on Friday. The Blues' set pieces are still shaky and a 20 or 30-point win to the visitors seems likely.
