The Chiefs travel to Auckland to kick off today’s festivities.
Will the Blues be able to continue the trend of home team victories in this years Super 14?
Or will the Chiefs manage to win again after losing for the first time in four years last year?
Kick-off in Auckland at 08:35 SA Time.
Referee: Lyndon Bray (New Zealand)
TJ’s: Keith Brown (New Zealand), Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)
Blues:
Starting XV: 15 Isa Nacewa, 14 Anthony Tuitavake, 13 Isaia Toeava, 12 Benson Stanley, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Nick Evans, 9 Danny Lee, 8 Nick Williams, 7 Justin Collins, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Troy Flavell (captain), 4 Kurtis Haiu, 3 John Afoa, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Tom McCartney, 17 Nick White, 18 Anthony Boric, 19 Onosa’i Tololima-Auva’a, 20 Taniela Moa, 21 Ben Atiga, 22 Rudi Wulf.
Chiefs:
Starting XV: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Sosene Anesi, 13 Richard Kahui, 12 Callum Bruce, 11 Sitiveni Sivivatu, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Jamie Nutbrown, 8 Sione Lauaki, 7 Tanerau Latimer, 6 Liam Messam, 5 Kevin O’Neill, 4 Jono Gibbes (captain), 3 Ben Castle, 2 Tom Willis, 1 Simms Davison
Replacements: 16 Aled de Malmanche, 17 Ben May, 18 Kristian Ormsby, 19. Hayden Hopgood, 20 Brendon Leonard/David Bason, 21 Dwayne Sweeney, 22 Lelia Masaga
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Half time score is 11 – 8 to the chiefs. Is an upset on the cards?
Hallo Rob… 😎
Blues hit back with a try by skipper Flavell. 15-11 now
🙄 🙄 🙄
Now a 3rd Donald penalty to bring the visitors back within 1. 15-14 and a tight finish looming
20 minutes to go
Smokin Joe scores! 22-14 to the blues. One more for the bonus point
Mmmm…7 hours = 420min = 25200 sec’s before kick-off…hope it’s worth waitin for… 🙄
Another Evans penalty and the Blues surely have the game sown up at 25-14
Stormers gonna do it, Charlie?
Buddy,
Actually hoping so… 😀
I just have this feeling that this would be great game to watch… 😛
Blues seems to be on the roll now…
Bonus point try and it’s 32-14. One way traffic now
Also hoping the blue machine gets brought down to earth today
Ja, get ready for the big slaughter… 😈
And that’s the ball game. Well done blues
Shot Blues, but sorry Bulls… 😈
Stormers are going to have to play a better game than they talk, for once. Who’ve they got at 1 and 2? Moller and Liebenberg?
2. Tiaan Liebenberg, 1. JD Moller
ok. Don’t think much of Moller, but Liebenberg is a good guy. He’ll do well under Rassie.
Better than Kuün anyway. He wasn’t even a very good flank!
Great game Blues….
They gonna be a handful this year…
Teams will have to slow the game down and put their forwards under pressure for a chance…
16.02.08 10:48:31 – robdylan
LoL…was he not u21 player of teh year and Cap of a u21 WC winning team….
He may have been, but he’s not u21 anymore 😉
16.02.08 13:30:11 – robdylan
Yes and he is not a flank anymore…..
But I was referring to your comment that he was never any good…