Chiefs (3) 30 / Stormers (20) 23 (Final Score)
The Chiefs hosted the Stormers at Waikato Stadium, Hamilton, at 09:35 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SHD & M-Net on TV in SA.
In a game of two different halves, the Stormers raced to a 20 / 3 Halftime lead, only to let the Chiefs score 27 points to 3 in the Second half.
Scorers:
Chiefs: 3 Penalties & 3 Conversions Stephen Donald, 1 Penalty Try, 1 Try Sitiveni Sivivatu, 1 Try Liam Messam
Stormers: 3 Penalties & 2 Conversions Peter Grant, 1 Try Gio Aplon, 1 Try Schalk Burger
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Teams:
Chiefs: 15 Mils Muliaina (captain), 14 Lelia Masaga, 13 Richard Kahui, 12 Dwayne Sweeney, 11 Sitiveni Sivivatu, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Brendon Leonard, 8 Fritz Lee, 7 Liam Messam, 6 Taiasina Tuifua, 5 Romana Graham, 4 Craig Clarke, 3 Ben Afeaki, 2 Hika Elliot, 1 Toby Smith.
Replacements: 16 Aled de Malmanche, 17 Sona Taumalolo, 18 Isaac Ross, 19 Sam Cane, 20 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 21 Tim Nanai-Williams, 22 Jackson Willison.
Stormers: 15 Conrad Jantjes, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Ricky Januarie, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Schalk Burger (captain), 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Rynhardt Elstadt, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Steven Kitshoff, 18 De Kock Steenkamp, 19 Anton van Zyl, 20 Dewaldt Duvenage, 21 Lionel Cronje, 22 Juan de Jongh.
Referee: Stuart Dickinson (Australia)
Assistant referees: Glen Jackson (New Zealand), Nick Briant (New Zealand)
TMO: Shane McDermott (New Zealand)
Stormers chances of reaching final now depend on other results going their way. At this stage Reds look certain of topping table with Saders 2nd. That’s going to make it tough to get to the final.
Chiefs is ‘n baie beter span as hul plek op die log.
Ref could have given a penalty to Chiefs at the end there for the tap into touch and denied the Stormers the bonus point.
Poor streeptruie, must have been so hard to travel all that way from the “fairest Cape” to NZ. Such a long flight. No wonder you all looked so tired in the last 20 minutes.
Right, gather around people. Time for those wild Aussie horses to get a mauling from the King of Beasts! (Hehehe)
Maybe I should go and sit with the bunch of kids at my daughter’s birthday party.
At least I won’t swear as much.
GBS, you get my mail from yesterday with CC article?
Nothing at all to do with traveling or referee. Simple temperament and character. Stormers went to pieces mentally and lost all composure and structure becoming hesitant and without confidence leading unnecessary errors. They lost this match not because Chiefs are a good team but because Chiefs refused to lie down and die and showed great fighting spirit.
Miskien het die Stormers verloor omdat hul soos hul ondersteuners gedink het die Chiefs is nie ‘n goeie span nie ?
Well the Stormers blew that one.
@ bdb:
They were ahead 20 – 3 at halftime. Chiefs are bottom of the log. What other proof do you need that Chiefs are not a good side????????
99: Hulle het die Stormers gewen, wat ‘n goeie span is ?
Kyk na hul span: sterk voorry, Messam is baie goed, goeie skrummie, sterk senters, 11/14/15 baie goed. Mills die beste heelagter in die wêreld.
Hulle is ook nie bottom of the log nie, hulle is 9de op die log. Daar is nie so iets soos ‘n swak span in die S15 nie, en as ‘n spanso begin ding, gaan hy verloor.
@ bdb:
You’re missing my entire point so this is a silly pointless discussion. I’m saying that the stormers had the game won and then lost composure when the weaker team fought back. You’re saying that no, the other team is not really a weak team because there is no such thing as a weak team in the comp. Obviously the last point is true, but i’m talking relatively and you’re looking at it from the point of view as a bulls fan who sees the other saffa teams as a threat to the bulls and their reputation.
101: OK, ons stem saam. 😉
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