Round 2 starts off with the most mouth-watering New Zealand derby you could ever ask for. Current champions the Chiefs come up against former (and sure-to-be-again) title winners, the Crusaders from Christchurch.
There are plenty of All Black players on display across the two teams, along with exciting youngsters who have made their mark in the ITM Cup and are now ready to step up on the bigger stage.
Kick-off in Christchurch is at 08h35 SA time.
Crusaders: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Johnny McNicholl, 13 Reynold Lee-Lo, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Nafi Tuitavake, 10 Tyler Bleyendaal, 9 Andy Ellis, 8 Luke Whitelock, 7 Richie McCaw (captain), 6 George Whitelock, 5 Dominic Bird, 4 Samuel Whitelock, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Corey Flynn, 1 Tim Perry.
Replacements: 16 Ben Funnell, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Nepo Laulala, 19 Luke Romano, 20 Matt Todd, 21 Willi Heinz, 22 Tom Taylor, 23 Rob Thompson.
Chiefs: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Tim Nanai-Williams, 13 Robbie Fruean, 12 Charlie Ngatai, 11 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 10 Aaron Cruden (captain), 9 Augustine Pulu, 8 Kane Thompson, 7 Tevita Koloamatangi, 6 Liam Messam, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Michael Fitzgerald, 3 Ben Tameifuna, 2 Rhys Marshall, 1 Jamie Mackintosh.
Replacements: 16 Nathan Harris, 17 Pauliasi Manu, 18 Ben Afeaki, 19 Matt Symons/Liam Squire, 20 Nick Crosswell, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Andrew Horrell/Anton Lienert-Brown, 23 James Lowe.
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Not exactly sure where my loyalty lies here anymore . . .
With SB, FL and sportsbet to consider there`s not a lot of room for personal feelings!
It`s Friday, we gonna have a betting article like last year?
Anyone watching the game? Or have a good site I can check for updates?
oh must have got the kick off time wrong. already half time. Chiefs lead 8 zip
Crusaders 0-8 chiefs both teams have yellow cards , fruean did a lomu on the crusaders
Bleyendaal of Tyler on
Possible try for cruden
Lost forward what a shame would have been a brilliant try
Second yellow for crusaders professional foul on the try line by white lock , chiefs has come out blazing in the second half
0-11
I front off kicker penalty crusaders on 50m
Try crusaders , chiefs trying to sack maul Sam go’s trough the middle
Conversion from the side 7-11
Yellow card return for chiefs
The bad thing about beign a teacher is you will always miss all the Friday morning games and most of the saturday morning games as well 😐 How are the skills of the 2 teams compared to the SA teams’ skills in their first games last week?
Teams killing each other 7-11 53 min gone crusaders line out on 22m
Penalty crusaders 22
@HeinF (Comment 15) : sloppy start by both teams but the game have picked up a lot in the second half
Penalty missed
Crusaders putting on big pressure now LILO knocking while crusaders are on attack in the chiefs 22
Still 7-11 60 min , two chiefs down stopped play
(Thanks for the updates
Crusaders bench almost used up
Big Ben back on for chiefs, crusaders yellow card returned couple of minutes back
Penalty crusaders in chiefs 22
Missed
Both teams benches almost depleted
Crusaders looking very dangerous at the moment
Crusaders have missed 7 penalties
Penalty crusaders kickable
Going for touch
7-11 65 min
Penalty crusaders again
Going for touch again
7-11 70 min, crusaders looking the fitter team of the two
Saders scrum chiefs 5m , Heinz knocks
@BR (Comment 18) : Good to know that it doesn’t only happen to us! Think the fact that we have played one game to work on our handling, is going t make a huge difference tomorrow!
Harris playing flank for chiefs
Chiefs off side at kick
Surely can’t miss this one
@HeinF (Comment 37) : both teams looking good now
10-11 75 min
Crusaders looking like they will take this one if the chiefs don’t step it up
Crusaders scrum 35m out
Crowd getting in to the game now
@BR (Comment 41) : Does sound like a good, close game!
2 min to go
Lowe intercept try for chiefs while crusaders should have scored
10-18 full time
Plz say its unconverted. I got chiefs by 6
So close..
What a game bad luck for the crusaders not getting a point out of the game while the were looking set too take it at the end but the chiefs defended Like Trojans congrats to them, most sa teams must look at this game
Best match so far teams looking very good so early in the season just hope the chiefs don’t have too many injuries
Goal kicking costing the crusaders the match
@BR (Comment 45) : going down too the wire the most exiting game I have watched for a while
Well mixed feelings . . .
Got SB completely wrong!
But my Multiple is still alive
Also on the up side for the sharks, Crusaders now in the same log position as the Bulls, after a home game.
Thanks for the updates BR!
Hahahahahaha. There goes my SuperBru for week 1
I see two people on LMS picked the Chiefs to win and two the Crusaders.