@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs v Blues:

Enjoy your trip to Christchurch Blues

To be honest Crusaders would thump us next week regardless of the venue

Indeed. Out set piece is terrible at the moment.

Chiefs just too good

Chiefs taking the piss at this point lmao

Blues defence without Papalii is feeble.

The wheels have well and truly fallen off for the blues. I better not touch on the off field stuff again though…. lol

Another killer bounce. Bit like the Drua v Reds game last night.

Even the bounce of the ball is conspiring against the Blues
This is getting ugly

@Tim said in Chiefs v Blues:

Blues defence without Papalii is feeble.

Defensive coach Craig McGrath is a hype job.

Blues have lost their heart. Would be painful to watch if they weren't the Blues

@Landers92 said in Chiefs v Blues:

The wheels have well and truly fallen off for the blues. I better not touch on the off field stuff again though…. lol

What's the gossip?

@KiwiMurph Think we really miss Rieko Ioane there too. On field leadership seems to be a real problem.

@Tim said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph Think we really miss Rieko Ioane there too. On field leadership seems to be a real problem.

Agreed with that

Never fear Blues BB will be back next week.....

Ah Kuoi could be a good 6

Some real duds recruited in the front row too.

Blues can’t live with a game played at this pace.

@Landers92 said in Chiefs v Blues:

The wheels have well and truly fallen off for the blues. I better not touch on the off field stuff again though…. lol

Team looks like they have quit

@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs v Blues:

Never fear Blues BB will be back next week.....

Good lord, I can imagine the meltdown if he came back and beat the Sadists.

3 weeks until first squad naming.

Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi should've been given more opportunities over the last five years. Never clear why he fell so far down the pecking order for the Chiefs.

@Frank said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Landers92 said in Chiefs v Blues:

The wheels have well and truly fallen off for the blues. I better not touch on the off field stuff again though…. lol

What's the gossip?

I posted a couple weeks back there were issues behind closed doors and got called out for it.

If you are watching this blues team tonight and you don’t think there’s truth to it, you’re only lying to yourself. The wheels have fallen off big time. Cotters face says it all.

@kev Vern Cotter getting found out with a limited game plan and underwhelming game drivers
That’s the real issue not who’s missing or whom they haven’t got

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

Good lord, I can imagine the meltdown if he came back and beat the Sadists.

It's 2026 not 2016

@Landers92 Can you give a quick recap? This would have to be their worst performance. They could have secured a home play-off.

@Rocket1 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Landers92 Can you give a quick recap? This would have to be their worst performance. They could have secured a home play-off.

Think I posted in blues thread

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs v Blues:

Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi should've been given more opportunities over the last five years. Never clear why he fell so far down the pecking order for the Chiefs.

Knee injury, Weber's form and Covid. He just never kicked on.

Taumoefolau does so come stuff

Blues were fired up for the first ten minutes or so. Then the wheels fell off.

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs v Blues:

Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi should've been given more opportunities over the last five years. Never clear why he fell so far down the pecking order for the Chiefs.

Knee injury, Weber's form and Covid. He just never kicked on.

He was the Chiefs' best halfback in 2020. I don't think it was a case of not kicking on, it was that his form wasn't rewarded (for whatever reason) and so he was never given the opportunity to keep stepping up.

Beautiful try, nice work from Brodie McAlister.

@Landers92 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Frank said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Landers92 said in Chiefs v Blues:

The wheels have well and truly fallen off for the blues. I better not touch on the off field stuff again though…. lol

What's the gossip?

I posted a couple weeks back there were issues behind closed doors and got called out for it.

If you are watching this blues team tonight and you don’t think there’s truth to it, you’re only lying to yourself. The wheels have fallen off big time. Cotters face says it all.

Think you're reading way too much into it. The average age of the Blues forwards in this game is 24. Lot of inexperience. We have the worst scrum in the comp after dominating there other years. Out lineout is poor because we don't have any experienced hooker in the squad who is a reliable thrower in the squad.

The Blues have overachieved this year. I never expected us to be in forth position at the end of the regular season looking at he squad at the start of the season and after the way Auckland played last year.

This finals system

Blues could lose by 100 next week and still make the semis

@KiwiMurph But that would require both Hurricanes and Chiefs to lose?

Hah, why not just let Boshier play halfback for the blues, Angus?

@Rocket1 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph But that would require both Hurricanes and Chiefs to lose?

No

Highest seeded loser advances.

Whatever the situation, the fact that the Blues this particular Chiefs team have put their second highest ever score on the Blues is embarrassing.

Real Bernard Foley of a mistake there from Cook-Savage.

Ref tells TPCS to not kick it out on the full

Proceeds to kick it out on the full

Blues have some good pieces to build around. Oudenryn, Fusitua, Beehre, Darry, Wrampling, Segner, Barnes in the pack. They just need better game drivers. Might have to recruit outside for that.

This Blues team is a pale shadow of the mentally and physically tough ones of the last few years.

Give them the try and end it Angus ffs