Stormers v Chiefs

[taniwharugby]

@WillieTheWaiter wow great news, particularly on Charlie Ngatai, never nice to see someone out of action for so long like he has.

[Bovidae]

@WillieTheWaiter Encouraging news, but that still sounds a little ambiguous.

Return via club rugby I would assume?

[Bovidae]

@ARHS Injuries to Ngatai and TNW hasn't helped. Fa'auli is very green and younger than ALB.

[akan004]

@WillieTheWaiter said in Stormers v Chiefs:

@Crucial said in Stormers v Chiefs:

@Stargazer said in Stormers v Chiefs:

1 Kane Hames, 2. Hika Elliot, 3. Atu Moli, 4. Dominic Bird, 5. Brodie Retallick, 6. Liam Messam, 7. Lachlan Boshier, 8. Michael Leitch
9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 10. Aaron Cruden, 11. James Lowe, 12. Stephen Donald, 13. Anton Lienert-Brown, 14. Toni Pulu, 15. Damian McKenzie

RESERVES
16 Brayden Mitchell, 17. Siegfried Fisi’ihoi, 18. Sosefo Kautai, 19. Taleni Seu, 20. Mitchell Brown, 21. Finlay Christie, 22. Sam McNicol, 23. Shaun Stevenson

http://www.chiefs.co.nz/news/news/latest-news/420-gallagher-chiefs-team-named-to-face-stormers-in-cape-town

Happy with that lineup although it would be nice to have Cane and Laulala playing which would flow through to a stronger bench as well.
Also, it would be nice to have Beaver on the bench and a stronger midfield but them's the breaks. Any news around on the possibility of Ngatai returning to play?

YES!
update out today... "We have a number of players due to return from long term injuries in the coming rounds including Nathan Harris and Charlie Ngatai. "

Source?

[Crucial]

@akan004 said in Stormers v Chiefs:

@WillieTheWaiter said in Stormers v Chiefs:

@Crucial said in Stormers v Chiefs:

@Stargazer said in Stormers v Chiefs:

1 Kane Hames, 2. Hika Elliot, 3. Atu Moli, 4. Dominic Bird, 5. Brodie Retallick, 6. Liam Messam, 7. Lachlan Boshier, 8. Michael Leitch
9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 10. Aaron Cruden, 11. James Lowe, 12. Stephen Donald, 13. Anton Lienert-Brown, 14. Toni Pulu, 15. Damian McKenzie

RESERVES
16 Brayden Mitchell, 17. Siegfried Fisi’ihoi, 18. Sosefo Kautai, 19. Taleni Seu, 20. Mitchell Brown, 21. Finlay Christie, 22. Sam McNicol, 23. Shaun Stevenson

http://www.chiefs.co.nz/news/news/latest-news/420-gallagher-chiefs-team-named-to-face-stormers-in-cape-town

Happy with that lineup although it would be nice to have Cane and Laulala playing which would flow through to a stronger bench as well.
Also, it would be nice to have Beaver on the bench and a stronger midfield but them's the breaks. Any news around on the possibility of Ngatai returning to play?

YES!
update out today... "We have a number of players due to return from long term injuries in the coming rounds including Nathan Harris and Charlie Ngatai. "

Source?

Watties

[taniwharugby]

@Crucial I suspect WTW's source is usually of higher quality than that!

[Crucial]

@taniwharugby said in Stormers v Chiefs:

@Crucial I suspect WTW's source is usually of higher quality than that!

Watties is the best there is.

[taniwharugby]

@Crucial Riiight.....it's good, but not that good!

[booboo]

Sauce

[Crucial]

@booboo said in Stormers v Chiefs:

Sauce

Exactly @akan004 was not using the correct fernology

[Stargazer]

Due to illness, Christie replaced by Nankivell in the line-up.

[Stargazer]

Geez, one minute played and already a massive brawl. Wonder whether there were fists flying there ...

[Stargazer]

@Stargazer said in Stormers v Chiefs:

Geez, one minute played and already a massive brawl. Wonder whether there were fists flying there ...

Apparently not, but stern warning to both teams from Jacko.

[Crash]

Knock on?

[Stargazer]

@Crash I didn't see a knock-on; think it's the right decision.

[Crash]

Yes lets' even it up

[Stargazer]

Good call by Peyper. Stormers player taking out a Chiefs player without the ball is shown a yellow.

[Crash]

That should have been a card for a slap down

[Stargazer]

Looked like an intentional knock on from Stormers player; Cruden complains to Peyper who doesn't want to know about it. Looked 100% intentional to me.

[Stargazer]

Absolutely awesome team try from the Chiefs!! Pulu dots down, but many players involved in that try.