SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs
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Good to see Hoskin Sotutu returning to form,and I thought a nice game from Adrian Choat,he carries well and is strong near the line.He played well too in the pre season game in Cambridge .
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@african-monkey said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@trodthesod It was mainly Tony Johnson but he's easy enough to ignore.
Smithy was doing a great job joining in.
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@damo said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@anonymous said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@damo said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@arhs said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
How is it offside if ball goes back? These referrals are an absolute farce
That's irrelevant.
If you are in front of the last team mate to play the ball you are offside until put onside.
Does retreating to the point they last touched the ball not count as putting yourself onside?
Yes, or getting behind the player who last played it. That didn't happen though.
Player who played fell back towards his own goal line. Surely it’s where he played it from?
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@antipodean said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@tim said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
What turnip field did they pluck that woman from?
Someone should have a quiet word in her ear about slowing down - that she can breathe between sentences.
No such a bad habit?
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@canes4life said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Man it’s refreshing seeing tall locks.
Did you notice that at end Kapeli was packing LH lock in scrums?!
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@steven-harris said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Good impact from the bench in the 2nd half ..Goodhue has added some power to the scrum , Ofa been great value at scrum time , Nock with some nice touches , and Akira with some much needed energy ..can’t quite spilt my MOM ..either Robinson or Eklund ..
Anyone notice that last week Ofa came on for Nepo went OK and then Renata came on for Karl and Blues scrum got mullered. Thought at time it was back to front.
This week Ofa on for Karl and went OK. Renata on for Nepo and Blues scrum remained strong.
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@crucial said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@trodthesod said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
How on earth did the Blues beat the Chiefs.The commentators would have us believe the courageous,under strength Chiefs had the game to bury the bumbling Blues in most facets of the game.From the 70 minute mark the adjectives dried up to a mere trickle.The critics of Blues rugby and all those involved ,continues unabated.
Congratulations to the Blues for overcoming this ineptitude and also to the Chiefs for playing so well tonight and making the final next week.
As the Chiefs proved this year ,form can quickly turn around.I wasn’t watching the clock close enough to see the exact minute that the Blues turned around but for a good portion of this game they were terrible. They were scoring points but looked like rabble (much like previous games)
Yes, TJ is a nob, but in fairness the Blues led him down that road.Sotutu really stepped up in the business end.
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@sparky said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Ecklund going well. Worth a shot in the AB squad?
Would you put him ahead of Aumua as the third best hooker?
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@antipodean said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@sparky said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Ecklund going well. Worth a shot in the AB squad?
Would you put him ahead of Aumua as the third best hooker?
He's no. 4 for me, but Colesy can't last forever.
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@antipodean said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
Would you put him ahead of Aumua as the third best hooker?
I wouldn't even have him ahead of Ash Dixon, Liam Coltman or even the Chiefs boy, no way he is near an AB place.
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Haven't seen the game but this thread was classic fern. Christie went from something like "'It's great we finally have a quick passing 9 and why can't Rangi see this and start Christie' to 'Useless Ginga' to 'Nock should be starting and the coaches should be sacked if they don't see it'. We also got the usual referee and commentary bashing comments, a continuation of the new, but highly entertaining, 'fucking referrals have to go' posts, and there was at least one random Crusader dig.
We really are a bunch of grumpy old men
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@crazy-horse but the referrals are arse, seems unanimous, so there
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@taniwharugby said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@crazy-horse but the referrals are arse, seems unanimous, so there
I hate them when they go against my team!
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@pakman Marcel Renata is not a sizeable prob , but is mobile , suffers with poor hands at times, it’s fair to say the Blues scrum has not been the weapon it was predicted to be .
The Chiefs scrum in the main given the personal that they had unavailable did well..! -
@crazy-horse i hate them full stop, as if our games don't have enough stoppages in play at present.
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@taniwharugby said in SRA Round 10: Blues v Chiefs:
@crazy-horse i hate them full stop, as if our games don't have enough stoppages in play at present.
and that complete mess they got themselves in after the Chiefs try was a farce of epic proportions.
I don't blame the TMO for spotting the offside but the point of the captains referral was that the captain had to point out what was missed not create an opportunity to review a section of play for anything.
I'm still not sure if the sequence was correct in that I thought Fraser was playing advantage before that. I wasn't concerned about the wild pass because I thought it was throwing the dice after advantage called.
The whole thing was an embarrassing mess for all involved.Referral was a mess
TMO was a mess
Ref couldn't even remember about three penalties in a row and if he called advantage over.
Chiefs were a mess in disputing the call.
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Yep that captain's challenge was a complete farce. It made the officiating team look like idiots and it showed that such a rule doesn't have a place in our game. I agree that I thought the Chiefs were already playing under advantage before the offside penalty was given, but don't blame the referee for not remembering. He shouldn't have to remember that. Hopefully that debacle will be the end of captain's challenge for NZR.
