Bovidae9 years ago
Chiefs
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Bulls
I hope Rennie has had the team practising defending mauls/lineout drives during the week.
Congrats to Liam Messam - his 150th game for the Chiefs.
The team will look a little different in appearance to those photos as many have had their heads shaven today for charity.
#StandupforKaiulani
Wonder if we'll see a repeat of the strategy the Chiefs used a couple of years ago against the Bulls, where they played some real messy, loose rugby and ran them off their feet. It was effective but not fun to watch at all, so I hope not.
@Unco They played eachother before the Brisbane 10s where the Bulls won and dominated up front. That Chiefs team was very different to this one though.
I haven't seen the Bulls play this season (I didn't see any games last weekend) but they don't look to be as strong as in previous years. I'm sure the Chiefs will look to play at a high tempo but still need to be accurate. The Chiefs will play 3 SA teams in the row.
Jesse Kriel, Travis Ismaiel, Jan Serfontein, Burger Odendaal, Jamba Ulengo, Handre Pollard, Rudy Paige, Arno Botha, Nick de Jager, Ruan Steenkamp, Lood de Jager, RG Snyman, Trevor Nyakane, Adriaan Strauss (c), Pierre Schoeman
Reserves: Edgar Marutlulle, Lizo Gqoboka, Jacobie Adriaanse, Jason Jenkins, Jannes Kirsten, Piet van Zyl, Tian Schoeman, Warrick Gelant
@antipodean said in Chiefs v Bulls:
The Bulls looked shattered last week after only 40mins.
Try ten minutes, horribly unfit/lazy side. If the Chiefs can maintain multiple phases as they normally do they will crack 50.
Let's go! Hopefully a much better game than against the Rebels. Also hope the Bulls turn up to make it at least a bit of a contest.
@Stockcar86 said in Chiefs v Bulls:
McKenzie really looks like Cullen with that haircut
Actually that is Karpik, not McKenzie
@Stockcar86 like a re-run of the Blues game...