Wow, really bad officiating. First obstruction from the Chiefs not spotted, and then Stormers penalised for jumping too quickly in the line-out while it was in fact a Chiefs player jumping first.

Chiefs are looking average ... as expected.

Fa’auli is such a dumb player. He went in to do a clean out when there was no tackle and just blew past the player he should have been supporting.

Anyway, Chiefs are playing better, so should now be able to get back the lead. Scrum close to the Stormers' try line.

@nepia It's worrying, because if they play like this with their ABs, how are they going to play without their ABs next week?

@stargazer said in Stormers vs Chiefs:

@nepia It's worrying, because if they play like this with their ABs, how are they going to play without their ABs next week?

They don’t have the depth this year, they need Cane and Rettalick to both be playing to put in good performance.

Shitty pass from ALB - or was it Stevenson?

@nepia Stevenson.

Damn, we won a scrum penalty try with Prattley!

@stargazer I'm hoping a damn sight better.....

Chiefs doing it tough, but love the big boppers getting involved

Fucken forward pass or fucken knock-0n - which is it then you fucken muppets

That was class by Stevenson even if it doesn’t count.

Brodie Retallick was awesome in that last few minutes - in fact the Chiefs played that well, didn't over commit in rucks until they had the chance to pilfer and won the penalty.

I'll take the win.

Well, that was a forgettable game. But a win's a win.

Yesssssssss season saved........until next week

@nepia

Yes, thank goodness for Brodie - the standout. Worried about next week without him though!

@shadowtrooper TMO didn't want to embarras the referee there. Referee rules no try knock on. TMO answers no clear evidence of knock on, stay with on filed decision (which he then makes up) forward pass.

Could he just not have said, no knock on but a forward pass. But clearly there neither was clear evidence of that as well. Just a f up and worrying trend.

@rebound said in Stormers vs Chiefs:

@shadowtrooper TMO didn't want to embarras the referee there. Referee rules no try knock on. TMO answers no clear evidence of knock on, stay with on filed decision (which he then makes up) forward pass.

Could he just not have said, no knock on but a forward pass. But clearly there neither was clear evidence of that as well. Just a f up and worrying trend.

I was pissed off at that one. Basically the ref said 'on field decision try' then changed to 'on field is no try' because the AR was insistent that there was an obvious knock on by Ngatai. As the pictures showed it wasn't clear and obvious at all. There was no proof of any knock on or forward pass and the grounding was clean, yet no try awarded.

@nepia said in Stormers vs Chiefs:

Damn, we won a scrum penalty try with Prattley!

In fact it was Tu’inukuafe. Kitshoff had just been replaced. Two scrums later Prattley on and Malherbe had replaced Louw for Stormers -- Chiefs scrum mullered.

Only watched replay of second half, but Chiefs pack manhandled Stormers.

Tu’inukuafe, Harris and Ta’avao clearly on top scrum time. Not bad for second stringers!!

@crucial said in Stormers vs Chiefs:

@rebound said in Stormers vs Chiefs:

@shadowtrooper TMO didn't want to embarras the referee there. Referee rules no try knock on. TMO answers no clear evidence of knock on, stay with on filed decision (which he then makes up) forward pass.

Could he just not have said, no knock on but a forward pass. But clearly there neither was clear evidence of that as well. Just a f up and worrying trend.

I was pissed off at that one. Basically the ref said 'on field decision try' then changed to 'on field is no try' because the AR was insistent that there was an obvious knock on by Ngatai. As the pictures showed it wasn't clear and obvious at all. There was no proof of any knock on or forward pass and the grounding was clean, yet no try awarded.

Ref appeared to me to go with 'on field decision no try' purely out of solidarity with AR. Based on TMO AR was wrong, so no reason why try couldn't be awarded, which ought to have been the question.

@pakman said in Stormers vs Chiefs:

Tu’inukuafe, Harris and Ta’avao clearly on top scrum time. Not bad for second stringers!!

Third or fourth stringers for the props.

The Chiefs scrum was the only positive against the Jaguares a week earlier. Nick White must be doing something right after replacing Hoeft.

And it was great to hear Charlie say Nepo should be ready to go after they return to NZ.