Blues v Chiefs

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Duluth From what I saw of him at for blues u20 he is quite small but very mobile with a high work rate. Him and his brother both loved to run with the ball and they defended superbly. He did some good things around the field in the final preseason game were he played 2 qtrs after Mullens went off. Vaai and Lord will no doubt put his throw under a lot of pressure when he comes on. Expect Ricky to play allot of minutes.

[mariner4life]

absolutely love the two AB 10s starting at 15...

[Daffy Jaffy]

Referee: Damon Murphy

Assistant Referees: Reuben Keane & Ben O'Keeffe

TMO: Brett Cronan

[Yeetyaah]

Chiefs by 1000, hopefully the Eden Park "faithful" actually show up.

[KiwiMurph]

Hopefully Chiefs themselves show up unlike their last two visits to the Garden

[KiwiMurph]

@Duluth said in Blues v Chiefs:

Any opinions on Nathaniel Pole? I don't think he's played any NPC yet?

Was he injured during NPC? Otherwise it's frustrating if he didn't play considering Auckland gifted minutes to a journeyman no hoper like Apisai could have used him (woops forgot Apisai went to Wellington)

[Machpants]

@mariner4life said in Blues v Chiefs:

absolutely love the two AB 10s starting at 15...

Nah I'm sure the ab ten be playing ten for Toshiba, teams not out yet

[Daffy Jaffy]

https://www.instagram.com/bluesrugbyteam/reel/DF9WvoyyPLI/

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Duluth Nathaniel Pole -
https://www.instagram.com/bluesrugbyteam/p/DF9Q76-S7C9/

[Tim]

Chiefs are doing better injury wise, and have a strong bench. Might well take this one.

[Tim]

Any news on Beehre?

[Yeetyaah]

@Tim said in Blues v Chiefs:

Chiefs are doing better injury wise, and have a strong bench. Might well take this one.

Don't even try claim underdog status

[Yeetyaah]

@KiwiMurph said in Blues v Chiefs:

Hopefully Chiefs themselves show up unlike their last two visits to the Garden

Great chat but

Showing up for my team when they're shit > not showing up at all.

[Daffy Jaffy]

This from the Blues makes me wonder if maybe ticket sales aren't going well?

"To celebrate Ofa’s 150th game he’s gifting everyone a discount on this weekends game
Use the code OFA150 at checkout for 33% off your ticket
Offer ends midnight Friday"

[Landers92]

@Daffy-Jaffy Listening to sports nation this morning it sounded like ticket sales were great for their opening game. Also sounds like they are taking this crowd thing seriously and thinking of ways to attract more people. Eg $10 for kids 5-16 years old and a kids combo which includes a seat, food and a drink for $18(relatively cheap these days).

Pretty cool to see them doing that for Ofa which also encourages more people to turn up. The more interest and bums on seats early in the season the better.

[Machpants]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in Blues v Chiefs:

This from the Blues makes me wonder if maybe ticket sales aren't going well?

"To celebrate Ofa’s 150th game he’s gifting everyone a discount on this weekends game
Use the code OFA150 at checkout for 33% off your ticket
Offer ends midnight Friday"

Eden park is unlikely to sell out, so why not get close to a full as possible?

[Dan54]

@mariner4life said in Blues v Chiefs:

absolutely love the two AB 10s starting at 15...

I trongly suspect by end of the year, we will see one of the AB's 10s is starting this game

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Landers92 said in Blues v Chiefs:

sounded like ticket sales were great

Good to hear, Ofa deserves a big crowd.

[Duluth]

This is the Blues side from when Ofa made his debut in early 2013:

Charles Piutau
Frank Halai
Francis Saili
Jackson Willison
Rene Ranger
Chris Noakes
Piri Weepu
Peter Saili
Luke Braid
Steven Luatua
Ali Williams
Culum Retallick
Angus Ta'avao
James Parsons
Tom McCartney

Keven Mealamu
Ofa Tu'ungafasi
Anthony Boric
Brendon O'Connor
Jamison Gibson-Park
Baden Kerr
Albert Nikoro

[Canes4life]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in Blues v Chiefs:

@Landers92 said in Blues v Chiefs:

sounded like ticket sales were great

Good to hear, Ofa deserves a big crowd.

On the news yesterday they said it's looking like getting close to 30k