Reds v Chiefs

Crazy Horse

Boy I am happy to see Jacomb on bench, I rate this kid!

Never seen him play so looking forward to it. No pressure young fella, but NZ desperately needs a quality 10 coming through. I am assuming he is being looked at as a 10 by the Chiefs?

Bovidae

@Crazy-Horse Jacomb has played for the Development team at 1st 5, and has replaced Trask in the squad, so is the third-choice 1st 5.

Dan54

@Crazy-Horse yep and is 10 for the Naki. To me he genuinely looks to have a lot of promise. There is a reason that Perofeta plays 15 so much in the NPC.

Canes4life

Chiefs by plenty in this game. Not only are they red hot atm but the Reds have lost most of the firepower in their backline with Paisami and Petaia injured. I've picked the Chiefs 17+

cgrant

Will the Chiefs throw the pill to the wings like they did against the Brumbies as Parker is not known to be fast ?

taniwharugby

@cgrant mayne him and Jacobson will change positions depending on what's going on?

Certainly not the quickest back row, but has some size to it.

booboo

Did I mention I'm going to this?

Bovidae

@cgrant said in Reds v Chiefs:

Will the Chiefs throw the pill to the wings like they did against the Brumbies as Parker is not known to be fast ?

Yeah, Parker is a 6/8 but McMillan has been playing him at 7. Boshier was often stationed out wide vs the Brumbies so maybe Parker will be doing the same.

Dan54

@booboo said in Reds v Chiefs:

Did I mention I'm going to this?

Did I mention you a jammy bastard!!

Windows97

Happy with the team, good to see Sam T get a start as he's a key go-forward player for the Chiefs. Not 100% sold on Ah Koui as a starter, an excellent impact player to bring on when the games starting to lose shape, but grinding out the hard yards in the tight to break the defense down? I'm not so sure.

Bosher has been adequate at 7 but not great so interesting to see how Parker goes. Glad to see Ratima get a start as while Roe's linking/support play and defensive organisation is really good, his pass out of the ruck is so slow, painfully slow...

I think a good choice to have Ioane at FB and SS on the wing. Caaombes fabling (ap for spelling) has been pretty underwhelimg so in effect I think it gets more spark on the field.

I wouldn't exactly write the Reds off, they've showen a bit of starch this year, I'm picking a tight tussle till about the 65th minute then the Cheifs to ease out as the game loses it's shape.

Dan54

@Windows97 Yep I like Ah Koui off bench, but no probs with him starting. Good to see a bit of rotation to keep forwards frsh etc.

gt12

Jacobson you dumb shit

gt12

Pretty shit accuracy from the Chiefs to start the game

Canes4life

Fast paced but plenty of inaccuracies by both sides so far.

gt12

LCF passed that too quickly.

gt12

Chiefs in, that's a good result from the first visit.

gt12

Might have been lost there....

gt12

That's rough, was that into a Chiefs player or a Red's hand?

antipodean

Good couple of passages of play there by the Chiefs. Disagree with the TMO, that looked to have hit a Reds player's arm, not a Chiefs' leg.

gt12

How often do those types of accidental offside happen anyway? At every second ruck?

The Silver Fern

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