Chiefs vs Lions

Donsteppa

FFS. If only the Chiefs has fronted in the first 55 minutes...

Damo

Dumb option from Elton. Chiefs can get the ball back.

Incredibly dumb. He should have missed and then taken the full minute to kick the PK. No matter, but it was not clever.

Stargazer

Agreed the Chiefs had a poor first half, but the Lions didn't deserve this win. Dodgy tries and other dodgy calls gave them the advantage.

antipodean

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs vs Lions:

Fuck me what a joke. Chiefs only turned up for 20 minutes of the game. Hate blaming the ref but fuck me he was shit.

Wasn't the best refereeing performance, but had he got every decision correct, the Chiefs still deserved to lose.

antipodean

@Stargazer said in Chiefs vs Lions:

Agreed the Chiefs had a poor first half, but the Lions didn't deserve this win. Dodgy tries and other dodgy calls gave them the advantage.

Did we watch the same game? The Lions' defence was excellent, the Chiefs threw away ball in the first half and didn't have a set piece.

Nepia

Warren Whitely didn't actually answer any of the questions in that interview. :grinning_face:

Stargazer

@antipodean Their defence was great, but not their attack. I think a draw would have been the right outcome.

KiwiMurph

Lions deserved to win. Good game.

Tordah

Game of three-and-one- quarters - Chiefs were shit in the first 60 and mostly great for the last 20, Lions the other way around. I reckon with a proper set piece in that first half Chiefs would have won rather tidily. Good win for the Lions on the road, I can't begrudge Warren Whiteley any wins, he seems proper nice

Nepia

@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs vs Lions:

Lions deserved to win. Good game.

Yep, Chiefs left it until too late to start playing decent footy.

Donsteppa

Gutted, but the right result. Can’t complain about a loss when it takes the injection of the reserves bench for a team to start playing rugby.

sparky

Excellent last twenty minutes comeback from the Chiefs. I thought the Lions backrow were outstanding.

Duluth

Bones

@sparky well picked!

sparky

@Bones Tough for the Chiefs without Retallick, Cane and Harris. I think Whiteley would have been kept quieter if any of those had been playing.

Yeahtheboys

I reckon Ta’avao starting loosehead for the World Cup final?

Machpants

@Yeahtheboys match fixing ring?

Yeahtheboys

@Machpants nah it’s all Colin Coopers fault I feel bad for Angus like he got shoved there and just left out there to look like an idiot playing a position he’s not used to

Crazy Horse

How hard can it be to change sides in a scrum? "Ooh I am used to putting my other arm around the hooker. This is way too hard!" Bless the wee fatties. No wonder they can't get the chicks.

Stargazer

I don't know what the rules are around naming match day line-ups and making changes to them before games, but if this is true, that's at least really poor sportsmanship from the Lions.

Lions admit to conning Chiefs with late changes

Cape Town - The Lions have revealed that they deliberately made late changes to their starting team before facing the Chiefs in Hamilton last week.

Springbok duo Malcolm Marx and Elton Jantjies were initially named on the bench for the match but were added to the starting team shortly before kick-off.

Marx was his ever-impressive self in the No 2 jersey, while Jantjies starred at inside centre as the Lions claimed a 23-17 victory.

Lions CEO Rudolf Straeuli told Netwerk24 that it was always their plan to start with Marx and Jantjies.

"It was a tactical move to announce the team like that because we wanted the Chiefs to believe they were not going to play. With Malcolm on the bench, the Chiefs opted to rest some of their heavy forwards. With him in the starting team we could take them on at scrum time and it worked well. The foundation for our victory was laid up front," Straeuli said.

The Chiefs named a starting XV without All Blacks duo Brodie Retallick and Sam Cane.

The Lions will however be without Marx for this Friday's clash against the Crusaders in Christchurch as he'll be rested in line with SA Rugby's policy to rest Springboks during Super Rugby.

Jantjies could be back at flyhalf as Gianni Lombard has returned to South Africa with a knee injury.

The Lions' other option at pivot is to play Shaun Reynolds.

The men from Johannesburg will remain without head coach Swys de Bruin, who has returned home to South Africa due to stress. Conditioning coach Ivan van Rooyen has taken over the head coaching duties on an interim basis.

Friday’s clash is scheduled for 09:35 (SA time).

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