Chiefs v Hurricanes

[Tim]

From Bidwell in the Stuff live scoring:

I wrote about it a while back, when they hired Spencer for next year. Tried to be fair to all sides, while just pointing out how shit the whole thing looked...basically Boyd had a handshake deal to hand over to Plumtree. Then decided it was a great job and he wanted to stay. In whatever role. All of this was made public by the CEO, who then didn't want to talk about it again...the thing dragged on, with Boyd still wanting to hang around, until such point as they had to choose. They'd promised it to Plumtree, when he turned the Highlanders down, and Boyd had to go looking for something else. They've worked hard to keep it cohesive and insist they remain great mates, but the performances suggest things aren't a hundy

[Nepia]

@tim Could be true, or could be bullshit covering for poor performances.

[taniwharugby]

@nepia surely there are enough senior players and ABs for them to rise above that kind of nonsense knowing what thier jobs are.

[Tim]

Also saw this on that chat:

Kent Lambert
Boyd wasn’t in favour of AB’s camp during season, said as much in the press, open criticism of the All Blacks coaching will never get you far. The writing was on the wall far out for the axing of Boyd. Watched them assembled for the flight to Canberra. Talked to Boyd and he seemed like beaten man.

[Donsteppa]

Chiefs starting the second half like previous weeks. C'mon Chiefs!!!

[taniwharugby]

haha down 21-0 zip and you go for 3....

[Stargazer]

Canes have been playing badly since the week they lost to the Crusaders. Lam has been invisible since he was overlooked by the AB selectors.

[Stargazer]

Stupid from Fatialofa.

[Stargazer]

Wasn't there a late tackle on MMac?

Edit: no, there wasn't.

[Nepia]

Try to Goosen after a good run from Lam. Karpik's attempted tackle was pretty average.

[Donsteppa]

MMac is a liability at everything except place kicking. Awful kick leading to a Canes try.

[Machpants]

Marty Neymar McKenzie. Should be a yellow for pushing tj in the air

[Stargazer]

Great try from Goosen. Someone channeled my comment to Lam.

[Donsteppa]

Canes the slowest learners at breakdown clearouts.

[Stargazer]

That was a great save from Riccitelli.

[Nepia]

@machpants said in Chiefs v Hurricanes:

Marty Neymar McKenzie. Should be a yellow for pushing tj in the air

Get Falcon on ... 4 Magpies in their home franchise the Canes, opps the Chiefs, will be good to see.

[Nepia]

Penalty should have gone the other way then.

[Wally]

Perenara is such a piston wristed gibbon

[Donsteppa]

MMac is awful.

[Nepia]

So according to the stats at the start of the match Parate is 2cm's shorter than Taufua. That can't be right!