Chiefs 2025

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah LCF had knee surgery.

The ABs can play 40 mins next week.

[Yeetyaah]

Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi gone for the season with a shoulder injury.

[Bovidae]

Dropping like flies. Is Malachi's injury season-ending too?

[Yeetyaah]

@Bovidae not sure on that one.

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:

Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi gone for the season with a shoulder injury.

More on this. I expect McMillan will be calling Adam Lennox as WTG players are usually available to any team. Carter being the third option at halfback impacts on the outside back depth, which is already thin.

[booboo]

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:

Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi gone for the season with a shoulder injury.

Boo. Am a fanboi

[Bovidae]

Fellow test reps Quinn Tupaea (who was nursing a foot injury) and Emoni Narawa (following off-season wrist surgery) are also set to be back, as well as playmaker Kaleb Trask, who had required stitches to a leg he sliced open on a sprig at training, while uncapped loose forward Malachi Wrampling may also return from a hip impingement which scratched him from the weekend.

Along with All Blacks hooker Samisoni Taukei’aho, who is still on the mend from the achilles tendon rupture he suffered in last year’s semifinal, and winger Liam Coombes-Fabling, who will miss the first couple of rounds following knee surgery, the Chiefs will also start the season without rookie lock Fiti Sa, who will be aiming for mid-season after having dislocated his shoulder during the NPC, and Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi, with McMillan still awaiting full results of scans on a shoulder the halfback damaged at training.

https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/sport/360567333/chiefs-come-through-first-super-rugby-pacific-pre-season-hit-out-unscathed

[Bovidae]

Taukei’aho is aiming to be available by Rd 3 (Brumbies).

[Bovidae]

The teams for each half have been named. It's good to see some players return from injury and the ABs.

https://chiefs.co.nz/all-blacks-group-set-for-game-time-in-second-pre-season-clash/

[Bones]

@Bovidae so good to be able to read a team sheet and know what position they are even when the numbers are all over the show. Take note England you Muppets.

[Mr Fish]

@Bovidae said in Chiefs 2025:

The teams for each half have been named. It's good to see some players return from injury and the ABs.

https://chiefs.co.nz/all-blacks-group-set-for-game-time-in-second-pre-season-clash/

Tupaea on the wing and Mataele at centre for the second half seems a unusual choice.

[Bovidae]

Ha! The graphic is correct, so Tupaea and ALB in the midfield.

[Bovidae]

I look forward to crayfish at the game.

https://chiefs.co.nz/news-item/chiefs-rugby-club-welcome-ngati-porou-east-coast-rugby-union-as-provincial-affiliate/

[Yeetyaah]

@Bovidae can't say I was expecting another provincial defector but I'll take it.

[Nepia]

Sheesh, even the coast beat us to defecting from the Horror-canes,

[Machpants]

At least, unlike Taranaki, they have been part of a SR title winning franchise

[Daffy Jaffy]

Audio interview with CMcM-
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/weekend-sport-with-jason-pine/audio/clayton-mcmillan-chiefs-head-coach-ahead-of-the-2025-super-rugby-season/

[Bovidae]

ENS, Dyer, McAlister and Ross were all rested against MP with minor niggles.

TTT's shoulder injury is not season-ending but he will be out for a while. Trask didn't play as his partner had a baby. He hasn't played any pre-season games so I doubt he makes the 23 for Rd 1.

[Bovidae]

I hope there is a return fixture next month.

Salabiau is back. No Poihipi or M Wrampling. A lot of U20 players on the bench.

[African Monkey]

@Bovidae said in Chiefs 2025:

I hope there is a return fixture next month.

Salabiau is back. No Poihipi or M Wrampling. A lot of U20 players on the bench.

That's a very experienced B team.