Dead rubber for Chiefs.
Power shortage up in tight five, but robust loosies and the match up with Blues trio will be tasty.
And that midfield given ball is very skillful and could dent a couple of repuations.

Watch out Harry Plummer, Samipeni Finau is looking for you.

A stat from today's newspaper:

427

That's the number of days since the Chiefs and Blues last played each other.

In that time the Blues have played the Crusaders four times, while the Chiefs have played the Hurricanes and Crusaders four times each.

This just shows how poorly designed the SR draw is, as there was meant to be some rotation in the number of times you played each NZ opponent.

Looking forward to this one. The battle of the loosies should be good. Great to see Finau back.

Huge late changes to the Blues.

Christie 9 (urgh)
Perofeta 10
Forbes 15
Plummer 12
Lam 13

Changes for the Chiefs as well.

️ Emoni and Shooter out
️ Ets from 11 to 15
️ Benji from 23 to 11
️ Coombsy into 14
️ Quinn from 22 to 23
️ Josh into 22

If the Blues get a win in this game without a BP, the late penalty miss by Perofeta in Wellington will have a bigger consequence.

Were both teams playing mind games with the team names?

I hope Plummer has a belter of a game at 12 to show Razor he would be a fool not to pick him ahead of DH.

@Bovidae I was thinking that at the time haha.

Christie - Perofeta to start. :face_vomiting: Can I change my tip before kick off?

BP win or nothing

Vern will be spitting tacks.

TMO check that

A reason it looked too easy...

looked a dodgy cleanout on the 22

looks like a decent crowd in