Chiefs 2025

[Canes4life]

Wilson mentioned on the Breakdown that DMac probably won’t be available. Not sure how accurate that is.

[Bovidae]

Yes, DMac will be out for this round. He has a muscle strain in his hand. Precautionary.

Trask has a high ankle strain. I would expect Koller comes into the 23 as 1st 5 cover.

Ross is available, Carter likely to be as well.

[Mr Fish]

@Bovidae said in Chiefs 2025:

Yes, DMac will be out for this round. He has a muscle strain in his hand. Precautionary.

Trask has a high ankle strain. I would expect Koller comes into the 23 as 1st 5 cover.

Ross is available, Carter likely to be as well.

So presumably Roe, Jacomb, Carter, Tupaea, Rona, Narawa and Stevenson to start with Ratima, Koller and Wrampling on the bench.

[Canes4life]

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs 2025:

@Bovidae said in Chiefs 2025:

Yes, DMac will be out for this round. He has a muscle strain in his hand. Precautionary.

Trask has a high ankle strain. I would expect Koller comes into the 23 as 1st 5 cover.

Ross is available, Carter likely to be as well.

So presumably Roe, Jacomb, Carter, Tupaea, Rona, Narawa and Stevenson to start with Ratima, Koller and Wrampling on the bench.

Will be interesting to see if the Chiefs start Sititi after his electric 9 mins off the bench the other night.

[Mr Fish]

Might give him another (slightly longer) run off the pine this week and then start him against the Crusaders before the bye week. Plenty of options in the loose forwards so definitely don't need to rush him back.

[Bovidae]

Sititi was meant to get 15 mins against the Force, but injuries changed the plan.

[ploughboy]

ALB still in sling, doent look good

[Yeetyaah]

Broken collarbone for ALB apparently. Gone for the season.

[Grooter]

@Yeetyaah won't be around next season either using his sabbatical at Dave Rennie's Japanese Club. think George hinted at this last week but didn't reveal any names 🙂

[Yeetyaah]

@Grooter said in Chiefs 2025:

George

sounds like he's back at the Chiefs next year then

[cliff]

What do you guys think about valynce te whare as an option for next year seems like he is tearing it in Japan I've always liked him since his days at Waikato

[Yeetyaah]

@cliff Defs be open to him returning. Always thought he'd do well back when he was playing for Waikato. Deceptively fast for a dude of his size.

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs 2025:

Broken collarbone for ALB apparently. Gone for the season.

Bummer. I can't like this post. The X-ray doesn't look good. I would think it is only for SR as usually up to 12 weeks for recovery.

So Wrampling comes onto the bench and Narawa can be used as a backup. Gibson Popoalii has been the WTG cover. We wouldn't want to lose any more midfield backs with Poihipi also gone for the season.

[Machpants]

In the news as rumour, tbc. But probably correct

Apr 27

Exclusive: All Blacks, Chiefs midfielder to announce Japan sabbatical

1News understands that Anton Lienert-Brown will join former Chiefs head coach Dave Rennie at Kobe next year.

[Yeetyaah]

ALB in for surgery tomorrow.

[Bovidae]

Players unavailable due to injury:

Damian McKenzie, Hand, Returning Soon
Etene Nanai-Seturo, Hamstring, Returning Soon
Kaleb Trask, Ankle, TBC
Liam Coombes-Fabling, Knee, Mid-term
Anton Lienert Brown, Collarbone, Mid-term
Malachi Wrampling, Hamstring, Mid-term
Fiti Sa, Shoulder, Long-term
Rameka Poihipi, Knee, Season