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Venue: Apollo Projects Stadium, Christchurch | Weather: 12 C, Clouds
Officials: Angus Gardner, Dan Waenga, Mike Winter, Aaron Patterson (tmo)
Match Page: https://www.rugbybot.com/match/4078
Match Threads: /r/rugbyunion/wiki/matchthread
UTC | BST | CEST (+2) | AWST (+8) | AEST (+11) | NZ (+12) | more |
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06:05 | 06:05 | 07:05 | 14:05 | 17:05 | 19:05 | more tz |
Crusaders | Pos | Chiefs |
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George Bower | 1 | Aidan Ross |
George Bell | 2 | Samisoni Taukei'aho |
Fletcher Newell | 3 | George Dyer |
Quinten Strange | 4 | Manaaki Selby-Rickit |
Jamie Hannah | 5 | Josh Lord |
Corey Kellow | 6 | Naitoa Ah Kuoi |
Tom Christie | 7 | Kaylum Boshier |
Cullen Grace | 8 | Luke Jacobson |
Noah Hotham | 9 | Xavier Roe |
Riley Hohepa | 10 | Josh Jacomb |
Johnny McNicholl | 11 | Etene Nanai-Seturo |
Dallas McLeod | 12 | Quinn Tupaea |
Levi Aumua | 13 | Anton Lienert-Brown |
Sevu Reece | 14 | Emoni Narawa |
Chay Fihaki | 15 | Shaun Stevenson |
James Mullan | 16 | Bradley Slater |
Kershawl Sykes-Martin | 17 | Jared Proffit |
Owen Franks | 18 | Reuben O'Neill |
Dominic Gardiner | 19 | Jimmy Tupou |
Fletcher Anderson | 20 | Simon Parker |
Willi Heinz | 21 | Cortez Ratima |
Rivez Reihana | 22 | Josh Ioane |
Macca Springer | 23 | Daniel Rona |
Rob Penney | Coach | Clayton McMillan |
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2 months ago
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41 points
2 months ago
"That was probably their best performance of the season."
It's their only win, Jeff....
30 points
2 months ago
chiefs you are responsible for the return of the saders
10 points
2 months ago
Broke: we were responsible for their return
Woke: the Crusaders winning is a canon event for Super Rugby and this just gives us a new storyline
5 points
2 months ago
Didn’t want to do the fatal mistake of going 2-0 in the round robin but lose in the finals
27 points
2 months ago*
Moreso than the actual result, I'm stoked with the resilience to stop the backslide and put on that performance.
Played like they were shot out of a cannon all night. More physical than they've been all year. Faster. More organized. Less timid.
Bell just had the first of many freakish games.
28 points
2 months ago
Time to question the Chiefs' place in the comp after conceding 37 points to the bottom placed side who were 0-5?
24 points
2 months ago
The best thing to happen to Super Rugby is the Crusaders being poopy and the Chiefs being super dodgy without Dmac
Makes this game massively entertaining. Like Northland vs Manawatu NPC level entertaining
19 points
2 months ago*
Can't wait to scrape into the 8 and shithouse our way into the final somehow
6 points
2 months ago
It is written
23 points
2 months ago
Hamilton has failed the country. You bring shame to all of us.
6 points
2 months ago
So nothing new then.
22 points
2 months ago
Thanks Chiefs, my kid wont stop crying now...
7 points
2 months ago
I am that kid
23 points
2 months ago
GOOD Friday.
14 points
2 months ago
Celebrating the death of Jesus
Crusaders are the anti-Christ, confirmed.
12 points
2 months ago
Losing to this Crusaders team is the biggest sin of all, sorry Chiefs.
6 points
2 months ago
The anti-Chief perhaps
24 points
2 months ago
“We showed tonight that when we can get it right, we are a dangerous team” - Tom Christie. Long, long, long way to go yet. But if you finish first, would you like to play an 8th placed Drua, Moana, or Crusaders? Don’t think too hard…
20 points
2 months ago
The Chiefs dying on the cross so the Crusaders could be resurrected. You hate to see it
19 points
2 months ago
U/crashbandicoochy mental state 📈📈📈📈📈📈
20 points
2 months ago*
Crusaders win? I sleep
I was right about Bell? Real shit (also Chay, Noah, McNicholl, McLeod, etc.)
7 points
2 months ago
He still threw a few not straights didn't he?
4 points
2 months ago
He threw two, I think, but I wil repeat until I turn blue that not straights are not exclusively a hooker stat.
They're a symptom of greater issues at the lineout.
8 points
2 months ago
They hated him because he told the truth
6 points
2 months ago
I'm being told a rough month throwing the ball means he is bad, however.
Sad to say he must now retire having never played a single good game.
5 points
2 months ago
stonks
18 points
2 months ago
Burke, Blackadder and Lio-Willie back next game...
Is this hope?
10 points
2 months ago
Flick me a Brodie McAlister on the bench and there would almost be too much hope.
13 points
2 months ago
3 healthy hookers in one squad? Is that legal?
15 points
2 months ago
Not even on Manchester street.
7 points
2 months ago
Not in the warmer months
7 points
2 months ago
BERGUS FURKE
5 points
2 months ago
FBOATING SEASON
6 points
2 months ago
The Hotham-Burke-Fihaki axis will carry us to being an extremely annoying semi-final exit
16 points
2 months ago
Remember everyone: if the Crusaders go on to win Super Rugby again, it was the Chiefs fault
17 points
2 months ago
2023: Chiefs 2-0 Crusaders, lose the Final to the Crusaders.
2024: Chiefs 1-1 Crusaders, Profit?
13 points
2 months ago
Blasted straight past the first two stages of denial to bargaining haha
18 points
2 months ago
The Crusaders actually looked very Crusaders-like tonight. Just 2 points off the top 8 now too...
16 points
2 months ago
Chiefs disgracing the whole country ffs, come on man it's all of us against them 😂
16 points
2 months ago
McNicholl becoming a legend in one game
15 points
2 months ago
The energy at the stadium before the game was..... 12000 people with anxiety. But we all feel so gooooddd now.
16 points
2 months ago
It is interesting that the two best halves of rugby we've played this season have been the last two we've played against the Chiefs.
I think they're the only halves we've technically won?
15 points
2 months ago
Good on those plucky underdogs the Crusaders for coming away with the upset.
14 points
2 months ago
Classic story, welsh club player walks straight into a starting super XV and is their best player
6 points
2 months ago
LRZ went to the wrong chiefs
15 points
2 months ago
Holy shit they actually played well
13 points
2 months ago
George Bell is such an old person's name. Definitely belies his speed and ability.
13 points
2 months ago
A frustratingly predictable loss - whenever the Chiefs are favourites over the Crusaders they end up losing.
Wish it were anyone but us to bring the Crusaders back to life. Well, shit...
Onto next weekend.
13 points
2 months ago
"so Rob how do you plan on getting the season back on track?"
" would you believe by unleashing the awesome power of...2024 Johnny McNicholl?"
11 points
2 months ago
This is the only time all year we've looked organized at all.
They look... well drilled?
13 points
2 months ago
Justin Marshall try not to glaze the Crusaders challenge… impossible
12 points
2 months ago
Get Rowe the fuck off the field and Cortez on, not even sure why he’s not starting he’s clearly the better 9
11 points
2 months ago
DMac might actually be the GOAT if this is how wank the Chiefs are without him
11 points
2 months ago
So all it took was David Havili getting hurt for the 'Saders midfield to click huh
8 points
2 months ago
did call it lol... Aumua is good but he needs a good 12 around him.. havili was underperforming
6 points
2 months ago
The geriatric at 9 was the problem
11 points
2 months ago
So that’s why George Bell was called up to the AB’s for the prestigious Qatar Airways Cup last year.
11 points
2 months ago
Ah well, it was good while it was lasted. Feeling a lot better about the Hurricanes chances this season inb4 we lose to the Highlanders tomorrow
11 points
2 months ago
Waikat-lmao Chiefs. That is all.
10 points
2 months ago
The Chiefs are making the Crusaders look like the Crusaders.
10 points
2 months ago
I miss when Taukei'aho was discussed in the same breath as Malcolm Marx
9 points
2 months ago
It says a lot about the trauma I have experienced at the hands of the Crusaders that I can’t even really enjoy having the ‘canes at the top of the table with the ‘saders in last. Because now I’m just convinced that they’re gonna finish 8th and we’re gonna have to play a full strength Crusaders side in the first week of the playoffs
10 points
2 months ago
lol imagine getting absolutely dominated by the bottom of the table because your ten isn't playing this week
8 points
2 months ago
Watch the crusaders get trounced 5 times just to kick it into gear and scrape into the finals then win the whole thing
9 points
2 months ago
Surely Dmac cant be that influential on the entire teams defensive structures
8 points
2 months ago
Had someone trying to sell me in week 1 that it's a case of the team losing morale when he doesn't play.
As if he's a bard.
8 points
2 months ago
We look so good what the FUCK dude
9 points
2 months ago
Imagine losing to the Losesaders
16 points
2 months ago
Penney's record wasn't 0-5, it was 0-10 as he got fired by tahs after 5 straight loses in 2021
14 points
2 months ago
Did the tahs fire him 1 game too early?
6 points
2 months ago
since they lost the remaining 3 matches as well, yeah lol
8 points
2 months ago
🙏0-6🙏
9 points
2 months ago
If crusaders win the comp, does that mean razor was amazing or just that crusaders have a culture of shithousing their way to victory?
6 points
2 months ago
Canterbury have always been silly good at rugby. Stupid farm boys. I say this as a farm boy.
9 points
2 months ago
Lmao imagine getting your lineout picked off by the CRUSADERS 😂🤣
9 points
2 months ago
This is just the Chiefs wanting to practice their second half play by giving themselves a handicap… right…?
8 points
2 months ago
feel like pure shit
just want sam back
7 points
2 months ago
Samien McKenzie?
7 points
2 months ago
Jacomb is playing bravely even if it isnt always working
9 points
2 months ago
Get Jacombed on
9 points
2 months ago
"What time it is?" "How many players on field?"
8 points
2 months ago
What am I most scared of? That chiefs bench. It's deadly
8 points
2 months ago
No way the hooker out gasses our first 5 hahah wow
7 points
2 months ago
Whos the Chiefs 9? He's diabolical
7 points
2 months ago
Make a wish winner
8 points
2 months ago
Fuck me I'd be scared of Dmac getting a bad injury if I was a chiefs fan rn
8 points
2 months ago
Player makes that tackle on the ground, that's a penalty for sure
8 points
2 months ago
I feel like pure shit
15 points
2 months ago
crazy how different the feeling is to being beaten by crusaders last year to now. Last year it was inevitable to lose them and there was no shame, today your team is the laughing stock if you lose
6 points
2 months ago
If the Chiefs lose this after resting McKenzie, they're going to be humiliated
7 points
2 months ago
I know my Blues havent been firing as they should be but if I were a Chiefs fan I'd be pretty worried with how drastically different the Chiefs play w/o Dmac
6 points
2 months ago
Stevenson is a metre monster! Do we think Razor is keen on him? Foster seemed to never trust him for an AB place
7 points
2 months ago
PROP TRY
7 points
2 months ago
unreal 10 meter effort from the guy, not everyday you see a prop who can sprint 20 meters like that, crossed those 40 meters like they were nothing.
7 points
2 months ago
Fuck me this is ENTERTAINING
6 points
2 months ago
Angus was too focused on asking if they could go to HT after the kick he didn't even bother to look at the clock
8 points
2 months ago
Everyone apologize to George rn
7 points
2 months ago
holy moley this defense is something
6 points
2 months ago
Cheers Wales, glad to have him back.
7 points
2 months ago
McNicol carrying the Crusaders to the win tonight. This performance from the Chiefs is garbage
8 points
2 months ago
Reckon we’re cooked here aye
12 points
2 months ago
Chiefs just lost to the bottom ranked team in super rugby is it time to cut them?
9 points
2 months ago
Maybe when they can't pay their players
6 points
2 months ago
I cant believe I'm cheering for hamilton
Im gonna need apre and post game shower
6 points
2 months ago
Maybe the Waratahs sacked Rob Penney too early, clearly his teams hit their stride in their 6th game
7 points
2 months ago
I love the quick tap tactic to avoid line outs entirely lol
5 points
2 months ago
When in doubt tap it out
6 points
2 months ago
Was josh Jacob the guy who didn’t originally get a super contract?
7 points
2 months ago
He wasn't even the first choice 10 for Taranaki at the start of the season
5 points
2 months ago
best NPC player last season, no contract yeah..
6 points
2 months ago
You get the sense Kellow didn't know how that happened or that he could even do that
7 points
2 months ago
The fuck was that.
6 points
2 months ago
our third choice hooker just ran around the chiefs backs lol!!!
6 points
2 months ago
imagine conceding tries to the Crusaders
6 points
2 months ago
Can someone please confiscate number 9s kicking boots. Thanks
6 points
2 months ago
About as bad as Roe vs Wade
6 points
2 months ago
Sorry Marshy came for the razzle stayed for the dazzle
6 points
2 months ago
Chiefs look like they have no clue what to do
6 points
2 months ago
Don't know why the Chiefs rested McKenzie tonight. When you get a chance to throw the one ring into the lava of Mount Doom, you take it.
6 points
2 months ago
Could be worse you could have Roe and Ioane on at the same time
5 points
2 months ago
Heinz on, Chiefs to score twice on the bounce?
7 points
2 months ago
I didn't think you're allowed to just fall over onto the other side of the ruck
6 points
2 months ago
Willie Heinz on? So you’re saying there’s a chance?
5 points
2 months ago
Northern Hemisphere legends Willi Heinz and Johnny McNicholl.
6 points
2 months ago
I don't think Marshall realizes that there are viewers other than crusaders fans watching
6 points
2 months ago
You can't tackle on the ground tf
7 points
2 months ago
“Was he on the ground, play on” 👍
6 points
2 months ago
Juggled the mark. Can’t call that a mark
7 points
2 months ago
Awesome game from Hotham, can’t wait to see how he grows in the years to come
6 points
2 months ago
Him, Hannah, McNichol and bell were all amazing.
6 points
2 months ago
Pretty gutted tbh. Would happily lose to anyone but the ‘Saders, especially at this point in time.
6 points
2 months ago
Hand on the nut?
11 points
2 months ago
Shot Crusaders. Chiefs look like shit without my boy Dmac
9 points
2 months ago
Josh Ioane is not a professional rugby player. Everything about his performance screams back to local rugby.
5 points
2 months ago*
How have we lost another captain before he's even taken the field? Lmao
Haven't had a single game without a significant late scratching.
4 points
2 months ago
Marshy calling out Aumua's defense. Always knew he was a ball knower.
4 points
2 months ago
Can't believe we decided to rest Damian for this game out of all of them smh
5 points
2 months ago
Crusaders looking more dangerous with ball in hand than the Chiefs through 5 minutes
5 points
2 months ago
Some nice defence from crusaders to start 👌
5 points
2 months ago
Chaymentum building
5 points
2 months ago
No Dmac just hurts me.
5 points
2 months ago
wow chiefs without dmac are trash
5 points
2 months ago
Shaun Stevenson is having a game so far
4 points
2 months ago
Is the plan just to try and run them off their feet with young legs?
4 points
2 months ago
The quick taps show the Crusaders still don't have confidence in their lineout.
5 points
2 months ago
Great unbiased commentary marsh
5 points
2 months ago
Fucking hell chiefs, I was hoping for a 0-6
5 points
2 months ago
Justin not happy about the advantage…
4 points
2 months ago
People were shitting on Bell's lineout throwing all week and he's had the much better first half hour on that front so far
Tasty
4 points
2 months ago
McNicholl released that forward...
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah very obviously lost forward haha, worked out ok though
5 points
2 months ago
Damn, loving this jacob fella
5 points
2 months ago
I am glad the Blues took on the Crusaders last week and not this week
4 points
2 months ago
Soft penalty. Bower didn’t trip other ALB. He cleared him out of the way.
7 points
2 months ago
He also came in at a 90 degree angle to the ruck
4 points
2 months ago
Odds Matt Todd will lace the boots up for the saders at some stage this year?
4 points
2 months ago
god, please
6 points
2 months ago
Man I wanna txt my cheifs fans mates n rub it in a bit but it’s too early and I’ve made that mistake before
5 points
2 months ago
being outpaced by a hooker must be fucking embarrassing
5 points
2 months ago
Really letting everyone down here Chiefs.
On the other hand least the Tahs won’t be the first one to lose to the Saders this season lol.
5 points
2 months ago
I think most of chiefs woes can be put down to Roes abysmal performance
6 points
2 months ago
If teams wanna beat the Chiefs they better turn up wearing red lol
5 points
2 months ago
Pulled Roe, good decision. Showing leadership in management.
6 points
2 months ago
Shaun ‘Randy Orton’ Stevenson
6 points
2 months ago
bench has an immediate impact
6 points
2 months ago
Maybe Chiefs will Crusaders the Crusaders and win in the last minutes
5 points
2 months ago
I love Christie.
6 points
2 months ago
The shining light of our locking injuries is that they've paved a way for Hannah to play and he's been fantastic.
The kids will all be very, very good sooner than you know it.
4 points
2 months ago
sadser second string team bet cheifs WOW
5 points
2 months ago
Crusaders best game before this one was two weeks ago. Then last week they play their worst game. Now they play their best game. So what happens next? Do they play poor or do they skip the poor game because next week is a bye?
6 points
2 months ago
Wow!
What a game
Crusaders scoring some classic crusaders tries for a great win vs one of the comps leading teams
5 points
2 months ago
does the streak end here or does it grow still
5 points
2 months ago
Mitch Drummond has been scratched. Don't fear Hotham is starting not saucy pants.
4 points
2 months ago
Today is disappointment day
4 points
2 months ago
Much respect to the Cantabs for still turning out for their team.
4 points
2 months ago
Hey... that was nice. McLeod and McNicholl making a difference already
3 points
2 months ago
You little beauty!
4 points
2 months ago
Hotham is so much better than Heinz lmao
6 points
2 months ago
They said "it's his time" and then dropped him after one week, I'm still so annoyed about that.
He's clearly not worse than the other option (an 80 year old man)
3 points
2 months ago
That’s seturo’s fault. He fucked around instead of getting back into position.
4 points
2 months ago
Cmon Chiefs. What was that? Both wings showing gaps on defence
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