Chiefs - B Sullivan try; Gatland 4 penalty goals, conversion
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80 mins - Blues try to AJ Lam
The Blues will get one final chance with a lineout seven-metres out. It s messy from but the home side cleans it up. Nock fires a pass wide to Sotutu who draws a defender before offloading to Lam who crashes over for his second of the evening.
Black can t convert the try as the siren goes.
(BLU 39-19)
79 mins
It s all going wrong for the Chiefs with players in front of the kicker to give the Blues a scrum on halfway with a minute to play.
Aaron Goile05:00, May 01 2021
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Chiefs prop Sione Mafileo believes their stunning scrum turnaround was about the pack engaging more as a unit.
New Chiefs prop Sione Mafileo has lifted the lid on the secret to the team’s stunning scrummaging transformation, saying some of the players had been trying to do too much of their own thing rather than working as a pack. In mirroring the side’s remarkable change in fortunes with now a place in next weekend’s Super Rugby Aotearoa final secure thanks to five wins on the bounce, it was the team’s last defeat where the scrum hit rock bottom.
Aaron Goile16:30, Apr 29 2021
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Chiefs coach Clayton McMillan has made wholesale changes to his lineup to play the Blues.
Chiefs coach Clayton McMillan says there are “probably seven” spots up for grabs for his team’s Super Rugby Aotearoa final against the Crusaders in Christchurch next weekend. That should at least ensure some sort of intensity from his makeshift lineup for Saturday night’s dead rubber against the Blues in Auckland. The Chiefs have 11 players putting their feet up, 12 injured, and 23 others who will trot out on Eden Park, including half a dozen set for Super Rugby debuts, in a team captained by Sean Wainui, from centre.
Sky Super Rugby Aotearoa: Chiefs coach Clayton McMillan elects for mass changes for dead rubber Blues clash
29 Apr, 2021 04:30 AM
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Blues captain Patrick Tuipulotu and Blues wing, midfield back Rieko Ioane on the team s 29-6 loss to the Crusaders.
Blues captain Patrick Tuipulotu and Blues wing, midfield back Rieko Ioane on the team s 29-6 loss to the Crusaders.
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Saturday night s regular season finale against the Blues is taking a back seat for the Chiefs as they keep one eye on the present and one on the approaching Super Rugby Aotearoa final.
Coach Clayton McMillan has brought 15 new faces into the matchday 23 that will take the field at Eden Park. First-five Bryn Gatland and number eight Pita Gus Sowakula are the only players that remain from the starting side that beat the Hurricanes a week ago.
James O Connor wanted to break his contract with the Reds for a stint at the Chiefs.
The Chiefs want to set the record straight on James O’Connor: it was the Wallabies star who was chasing them, not the other way around.
Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday suggested the 30-year-old first five-eighth had a tricky call to make thanks to being courted by the Hamilton-based franchise for the 2021 season. “The opportunity came up to go the Chiefs and I’m not going to lie, it was something I really did think about. I was very interested in it,” O’Connor was quoted as saying.