Chiefs v Highlanders

[KiwiInLondon]

Millar has a great boot. Just needs some decent coaching

[Machpants]

Wheeler/Beaver showing his brains, calling that as a knock on as slow motion clearly shows tupea holds it throughout

[Yeetyaah]

@Bones said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

No arms in the tackle on Tupaea

Except for the two arms in the tackle

Hence the edit 🤪. Only saw it in real time at the stadium, replay made it obvious.

[Landers92]

Great kick Fakatava

[Steven Harris]

Holland hobbling

[Bones]

That kick is why Roe gets good minutes at the start.

[Bones]

And that kick

[SouthernMann]

@KiwiInLondon said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

Millar has a great boot. Just needs some decent coaching

Tony Brown has been around the camp. Ben Smith is an assistant coach. Plenty of decent knowledge. Up to Millar to be a better player.

[Landers92]

Nice strip from Jacobsen. That was a big play

[Bones]

Narawa clearly in front of the ball.

[Steven Harris]

Highlanders don’t need a scrum

[SouthernMann]

@Steven-Harris said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

Highlanders don’t need a scrum

Not with Daddy DLB anchoring it

[Landers92]

Huuuge intercept Fakatava. That was a try if it weren’t for that. Good stuff

[Yeetyaah]

Geez the Chiefs are making it hard on themselves

[KiwiInLondon]

Shortened line out, so the dummy jump then shift the pod back? I mean how obvious could have have been for the chiefs jumper…

[frugby]

Decent half… Highlanders hung on at the start, evened it up by the end. Chiefs bench the stronger, but we are in the game, so I’m happy with that. Bell, Holland and Lasaqa leading the defensive charge, nice touches out back from Folau and Jimmy.

[Steven Harris]

@frugby be interesting to see if Holland comes back on in the 2nd half looked to be favouring an ankle hopefully nothing to serious
Looks like his calf is strapped

[KiwiInLondon]

Haig looks a bit short of a gallop but shit it would be nice for a big guy to assert himself a bit more

[frugby]

@KiwiInLondon I was thinking the same, but in fairness with the way we are using him it could be a case of few touches, but hopefully a big impact. He is ranging wide, but we are playing narrow, so in effect he isn’t in the game. He is playing his role reasonably well.

[KiwiInLondon]

@frugby said in Chiefs v Highlanders:

@KiwiInLondon I was thinking the same, but in fairness with the way we are using him it could be a case of few touches, but hopefully a big impact. He is ranging wide, but we are playing narrow, so in effect he isn’t in the game. He is playing his role reasonably well.

Agreed, the gameplay seems to overload 5-6 players at the expense of getting all 15 players involved