@brodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Landers92 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@brodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@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.

How am I reading too much into what I’ve been told? Just stating it’s very in line with the last month of performances.

You're reading too much into this performance as a confirmation of your bias. As I said, the average age of the forwards is 24 in today’s squad. Overall this squad has overachieved this season.

If that’s makes you feel better man. Both things can be true.

Difficult last month for the Blues heading into the play-offs. Three big losses, 16, 23 and 25 points against the three teams ranked ahead of them on the table.

@Rocket1 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph lucky loser system doesn't make any sense to me.

Thats what we get with a top 6 system where they want all teams playing in week 1 of the finals.

If the Canes, Chiefs and Saders all lost next week I’ll eat my potae….

@Rocket1 it isn't that complicated, it's just stupid. Highest seeded loser in the QF gets to play again in the SF but they drop to the lowest seed.

@KiwiMurph So to make sense of this system. If the hurricanes, chiefs and saders win (which they likely will), the blues make it into the semi finals.

@Rocket1 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph So to make sense of this system. If the hurricanes, chiefs and saders win (which they likely will), the blues make it into the semi finals.

Which would make it the top 4 in the semi finals. Why's that a problem?

@Rocket1 said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph So to make sense of this system. If the hurricanes, chiefs and saders win (which they likely will), the blues make it into the semi finals.

Yes

Regardless of how much the Blues lose by

@Bones It just seems weird. Be nice if the blues manage to win it with this format. But given recent games performance, it'll be too much.

I haven't read the thread yet but it was good to see some of the Chiefs WTG perform. I was impressed with Reon Paul and Dan Sinkinson has certainly taken his opportunities.

Gardner was as bad as Berry last night but for different reasons. His policing of the breakdown was all over the place.

Chiefs were clinical with their chances.

Blues weren't didn't actually miss many tackles but when their line fell apart it was catastrophic.

Scrum and lineout terrible for the Blues. Segner should not be the focus of the lineout as an openside. Overall Barnes and Wrampling both have more upside in the lineout than Segner. Yes he wins some ball but we regularly loose ball when it goes to him too. Not good enough from Darry this season. Simply not taking enough lineout.

Ahki and Taele are not a good midfield combo.

Positives were we lost less ball and won more ball at the breakdown. We made more post gain metres. We made 1 less linebreak. Our discipline was good. So some positives for a young team.

Just not anywhere as clinical as the Chiefs attack with opportunities. Couldn't maintain pressure with our poor lineout.

Far out, do we want to keep playing for another couple of weeks lol. Saw some good signs at times from our youngsters, but yeah, things got real ugly quick. Mullan's throwing too.....far out man.

My biggest takeaway from this game is that some rugby fans are precious little jellies. Some fella in front of me asked me to be quiet as I was "being too loud." Asked him what he really expected at a live game with 19000 in the stadium.

@Yeetyaah what did he expect tho

@Bones who knows, I've been in the same spot for the past 6 years and people come and go, some join in and some give me stick. The Blues fans near me were good sort at least despite my chat.

@Yeetyaah keep up the good work

@Yeetyaah no reply? Booooo

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Bones who knows, I've been in the same spot for the past 6 years and people come and go, some join in and some give me stick. The Blues fans near me were good sort at least despite my chat.

The city of sails have always provided the most polite fans

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs v Blues:

2026 All Blacks bolter Liam Coombes-Fabling.

Fuck no.

@antipodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs v Blues:

2026 All Blacks bolter Liam Coombes-Fabling.

Fuck no.

Richard Knowler has predicted it - it must be so.

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs v Blues:

My biggest takeaway from this game is that some rugby fans are precious little jellies. Some fella in front of me asked me to be quiet as I was "being too loud." Asked him what he really expected at a live game with 19000 in the stadium.

Sorry, didn't realise it was you.

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs v Blues:

@antipodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Mr-Fish said in Chiefs v Blues:

2026 All Blacks bolter Liam Coombes-Fabling.

Fuck no.

Richard Knowler has predicted it - it must be so.

There's a cruise liner manifest of players in front of him.

@Yeetyaah said in Chiefs v Blues:

My biggest takeaway from this game is that some rugby fans are precious little jellies. Some fella in front of me asked me to be quiet as I was "being too loud." Asked him what he really expected at a live game with 19000 in the stadium.

There is loud and there is “blues fans can suck my … “ I can guess the shit you stirred. But to be fair they probably deserved it

@bayimports

Fuck you, if we go to Hamilton to hang out with my cousins then we absolutely do not

@Tim said in Chiefs v Blues:

@bayimports

Fuck you, if we go to Hamilton to hang out with my cousins then we absolutely do not

Deserve to suck?

@Bones

Try to avoid the saw-dust on the floor of the bar level of behaviour from those scumbags.

Actually, my Dad and his family are Chiefs fans. Rest of them are Hamilton level trash.

@Tim I can empathise, my mum's from Upper Hutt and my dad's from Tairei.

@Bones said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Tim I can empathise, my mum's from Upper Hutt and my dad's from Tairei.

Tairei? My first club!. Fine lady, obviously.

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Bones said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Tim I can empathise, my mum's from Upper Hutt and my dad's from Tairei.

Tairei? My first club!. Fine lady, obviously.

Don't you talk about uncle Brian like that

@Bones said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Yeetyaah no reply? Booooo

Oh I didn't quieten down, if ya wanna watch the game in silence then watch at home.

@Yeetyaah

Funny you should say that I had someone ask the same thing of me at Hurricanes at Blues match - I didn't think he was serious to start with.

@Tim said in Chiefs v Blues:

@bayimports

Fuck you, if we go to Hamilton to hang out with my cousins then we absolutely do not

lol it was a deliberate troll glad you enjoyed it

@Bones said in Chiefs v Blues:

That was a dodgy as turnover by Ahki

A Gardner special. No such thing as through the gate. He also didn't penalise players for not rolling away. Segner had the McCaw invisibility cloak at times.

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@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.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

he can't be as bad as he has been every week

that reads more as optimism than as solid logic...

Please, please, may Eklund be starting hooker on Saturday.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@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.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

He can certainly be randomly good.

@brodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@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.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

He can certainly be randomly good.

Yeah, he certainly can still do good things on the field. The issue is that this (arguably) isn't even happening enough to outweigh the bad stuff at Super level, and certainly is not happening anywhere near consistently enough for him to be a contender to start at 10 for the ABs.
This is what irritates me when people point to him making a good play or having a reasonably positive game: our expectations simply ought to be a massive amount higher than that.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@brodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@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.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

He can certainly be randomly good.

Yeah, he certainly can still do good things on the field. The issue is that this (arguably) isn't even happening enough to outweigh the bad stuff at Super level, and certainly is not happening anywhere near consistently enough for him to be a contender to start at 10 for the ABs.
This is what irritates me when people point to him making a good play or having a reasonably positive game: our expectations simply ought to be a massive amount higher than that.

He was actually had a period of consistently good form earlier in the season but then it went down hill and it had all disappeared by the end. Not in my AB squad.

Eklund has a back issue, not sure how bad.

Bugger. We need a hooker who can throw accurately.