Chiefs vs Crusaders
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Disappointing.
Margin should have been much higher. A lot to work on, first-up tackles in broken play were shocking, lineouts were abysmal, no support for kick chasers, handling a perennial worry. Refs were clearly against us.
Mounga left easy points unscored.
Should have had 2 bonus points against that rabble.
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@arhs said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
Our back 3 weakness was exploited. Need Narawa and Lowe back for ENS and Trask. Nankivell can start over Tupaea too. Thought Cane and Vaii were very good but all 15 Crusaders went well at breakdown. Well done Razor.
Trash was disappointing for sure
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@kiwimurph said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
Chiefs fans shouldn't be too despondent.
The Chiefs shouldn't play that badly again and they were in with a sniff for a lot of that game. They are more than capable of beating the Saders again.
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@crazy-horse said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
@kiwimurph said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
Chiefs fans shouldn't be too despondent.
The Chiefs shouldn't play that badly again and they were in with a sniff for a lot of that game. They are more than capable of beating the Saders again.
I didn't think the Chiefs were bad, the Crusaders were bloody good! As a kind of a neutral I thought it a bloody great game, and there will be some sore bodies tomorrow!
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@dan54 said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
@crazy-horse said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
@kiwimurph said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
Chiefs fans shouldn't be too despondent.
The Chiefs shouldn't play that badly again and they were in with a sniff for a lot of that game. They are more than capable of beating the Saders again.
I didn't think the Chiefs were bad, the Crusaders were bloody good! As a kind of a neutral I thought it a bloody great game, and there will be some sore bodies tomorrow!
Yeah was fierce game
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This game reminded of when the ABs used to be good and they could string along a team for 60 mins absorbing nearly everything and then running away with it comfortably without ever really being under any real pressure.
That was tidy tonight by the Crusaders
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@canerbry said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
@hooroo yeah I totally agree, you're absolutely right we clearly need more Crusaders in the All Blacks, and of course the coach.
I’ll take the coach. Could not give a shit who the ABs play for.
One thing for sure is Jordan should be FB. Jordie isn’t a patch on him
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For all the funny stuff during the week the simple fact is all of the Crusaders points were scored by All Blacks (or a guy who should have been last year and will be this year)
And by all accounts those big names in the Chiefs might be cooked.
This seems bad for AB rugby.
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@mariner4life said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
For all the funny stuff during the week the simple fact is all of the Crusaders points were scored by All Blacks (or a guy who should have been last year and will be this year)
And by all accounts those big names in the Chiefs might be cooked.
This seems bad for AB rugby.
Lol Leicester? As long as he's nowhere near the midfield!
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@mariner4life said in Chiefs vs Crusaders:
For all the funny stuff during the week the simple fact is all of the Crusaders points were scored by All Blacks (or a guy who should have been last year and will be this year)
And by all accounts those big names in the Chiefs might be cooked.
This seems bad for AB rugby.
Actually when you look at that squad there weren't really too many big names playing for the Chiefs.
Weber had a shitter though but the stupid kicking tactics didn't help there; Cane had a pretty good game, got through a heap of work, but Christie was getting turnovers with impunity (I joked about Crusaders leeway at the ruck earlier in the thread but I think he got lucky with a couple); Retallick went off early.
That's really it for big names from the Chiefs in this match.
Of the slightly big names Vai'i was pretty quiet, Tupaea was average and went off fairly early, Taukei'aho was good, Lord pretty anonymous.
Of the not so big names Nankivell had a blinder. Trask was awful, Stevenson was his normal rocks and diamonds, Gatland was Gatland and Finau was way off the pace.
On Christie, that was easily the most complete game I've seen him play. Normally he just tackles, he added
floppingfetching and running in this game.
