The Chiefs have announced their team to play the Stormers at Waikato Stadium in Hamilton on Friday night, in what will be their last home game before heading off shore for three weeks. The match will mark inspirational Chiefs player Tanerau Latimer’s 100th Super Rugby match.
Jamie Mackintosh returns to the starting line-up at prop. Brodie Retallick has been cleared to play and is joined in the locking stocks by Matt Symons. Liam Messam resumes his position at flanker with Liam Squire starting in the No 8 jersey after a solid performance off the bench last week.
James Lowe gets his first start on the wing and Tom Marshall will make his Chiefs debut at second five-eighth. Gareth Anscombe makes his long awaited return to rugby at fullback in his first match of the season. Pauliasi Manu, Michael Fitzgerald, Robbie Fruean and Asaeli Tikoirotuma all move to the bench.
Chiefs: 15 Gareth Anscombe, 14 Tim Nanai-Williams, 13 Charlie Ngatai, 12 Tom Marshall, 11 James Lowe, 10 Aaron Cruden (Captain), 9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 8 Liam Squire, 7 Tanerau Latimer, 6 Liam Messam, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Matt Symons, 3 Ben Tameifuna, 2 Mahonri Schwalger, 1 Jamie Mackintosh
Replacements: 16 Rhys Marshall, 17 Pauliasi Manu, 18 Josh Hohneck, 19 Michael Fitzgerald, 20 Tevita Koloamatangi, 21 Brad Webber, 22 Robbie Fruean, 23 Asaeli Tikoirotuma.
Date: Friday 14 March
Venue: Waikato Stadium, Hamilton
Kick-off: 08:35 SA Time, (19:35 NZ Time, 06:35 GMT)
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant Referees: Nick Briant, Shane McDermott
TMO: Ben Skeen
Chiefs by 30.
Strong team.. hopefully they will be a bit disorganised after the bye last weekend and with the 7 changes to the team.
@ Loosehead:
I do believe you could be stirrring Loosie.
😉
3 @ cane:
He is stirring… he is after all a Master Chef of vocation!
Hello all
GBS, what does it mean when it shows the users online and it says 6 or 8 bots?
What is a bot?
@ nortierd:
Good question Nortie.
And one I have always wanted to ask………………………but was too afraid of looking stupid.
You appear to have no such concerns.
😉
5 @ nortierd:
6 @ cane:
Hello,
Bots are the Search Engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo ect reading and Indexing the site (for proper listing on their search engines) and / or web crawlers looking at the site and unable to get past our security measures.
@ nortierd:
GBS wil explain it better but its trackers from search engines.
7 @ grootblousmile: oops didn’t refresh
@ grootblousmile:
Thank You,
Groot and Macro.
Tracker, Web Crawler, Bot…………………………..sounds like a SA loose forward trio.
The Stormers line up is fairly strong
However they miss their ‘Hard Men’ components in Etzbeth, Elstadt and Rhodes, against a top order Kiwi team, that is considered an essential component to win it away.
their bench’s strength is a ‘pathetic to farce’ rated, the Stormers must lead by 14 before their subs are sent in around the 55 min IF standing a chance to win.
Does anyone see it happening?
😉
Thanks GBS and MB
So it’s like stalkers or people spying?
Better mind my P’s and Q’s from now on
@Cane
For someone who’s team is crawling around at the bottom of the log you have a lot to say.
Don’t let Bakkies give his version of the NZ loose forward combination, we have “Hollywood, hand me my Oscar” Messam, Reechiee ” my eyebrows are to near to my ears, therefor I have dubious intentions” McCaw and Kieran ” I sound like Oscar and other girls when I scream” Read
10 @ cane:
Hahaha
@ Hondo:
Yes.
But I hope not.
– Chiefies coming off a Bye.
– Strong line-up by the Chiefies, but with 7 changes to their starting 15.(Too many Chiefies and not enough Indians).
– Stormers will be better acclimatised now, with the additional week in NZ.
And, as you put it, “their bench is pathetic”. Well don’t go there………………….until necessary.
I still think the Chiefies. But………………………….there is always a but.
6 @ cane:
12 @ nortierd:I don’t think Bakkies would take to kindly to these “Bots” etc…he’d immediately accuse the Keewees of hacking into his computer and causing mayhem with it and fuelling the conspiracy and etc, etc etc
12 @ nortierd:
The Search Engine Bots are not stalkers… the Rugby-Talk website is designed to be properly INDEXED and in conjunction with Tools like Google Webmaster Tools & Bing Webmaster Tools and other Tools I actually tell the Search Engines to INDEX the site (and at which hours of the day to Index more frequently) and it’s Pages / Articles, in order to list them properly as high up as possible on their Search Engine Pages, according to the Tags and Categories built into the Articles / Pages.
(You will see Tags assigned to Articles at the Bottom of the Articles… which then is indexed as such at the Search Engines, so that if a “Key Word” like that is entered in say Google, it brings the Article up, high on the ranking order).
In other words, Rugby-Talk and it’s Pages and Articles must be easy to find on the Search Engines…. all 8 624 Articles PLUS 201 additional Pages.
There’s actually a lot that goes on behind the scenes on my side that you okes are totally oblivious to…. I don’t just sit and twiddle my thumbs… hehehe
In the words of General Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn…..
Hier kom kuk!
@ nortierd:
When your Team hits the bottom Nortie.
There is only one way to go.
18 @ cane:
To start digging??
@ grootblousmile:
Should Oscar be digging.
I’d give him 25yrs right now from what I have seen.
I’m curious what GBS thinks about the Oscar situation.
Legally speaking.
20 @ cane:
His Lawyers are digging some serious holes into the State’s case… even if you do not like the tone of his Advocate’s (Barrie Roux) voice.
A lot of contradictions are coming out… even if painfully so.
What is actually good is that the world can see that Jurisprudence in South Africa’s High Courts are functioning well.
For obvious reasons SA does not have a Jury System, it would have been totally unfeasable with 11 Official Languages in SA (imagine 11 Language Interpreters standing and translating all the evidence the whole time)…. so the Judge and her Assessors should give a technically correct ruling at the end of the day… and not a circus judgement, the likes of which is OFTEN found in the USA and other countries where a Jury System applies.
Ok, thanks for the explanation GBS
@Cane and SB
Oscar doesn’t have to prove anything.
The onus is on the state to prove their case
Komkommers by 20. Kla gepraat
grootblousmile wrote:
Excellent post. I think that all too often people confuse the rule of law with the emotove aspects of “Justice”. The law also errs on the side of the defendant so if the state is not able to prove their case beyond any reasonable doubt then it is likely that he will end up being found guilty of a lessor charge.
21 @ Stormersboy:
I have defended murderers, rapists and the likes in my time… or should I say alleged murderers and rapists and the likes.
I therefore look at things differently from how you look at it… I look at the contradictions, the technicalities… the volume of preparation work.
The principal in SA, as in most civilised countries, is that one would rather let 9 guilty people walk than wrongfully convict 1 innocent person… it is a pure and great principal.
Lawyers (Advocates and Attorneys) are there to test the system and to force the standards of Jurisprudence to be high… otherwise a country would fall very quickly into Jungle Justice.
One needs to prosecute a case, not persecute a defendant…
South Africa in genral has of the best Legislation out there in world terms, but where things often fall down is in the standard of investigative work and the standard of the prosecution personnel…. in other words in proper prosecution of a case.
25 @ Stormersboy:
Yeah, we have Courts of Law, not Courts of Justice.
When a case is properly prosecuted, one often arrives at the goal of getting Justice too, which should always be the end goal for the State.
Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
In Criminal Cases, the measure of judgment is radically different from the measure in Civil Cases.
In Civil Cases, it is like a scale… which side out weighs the other… and a ruling is made in that light.
In Crimonal Cases, the State has to prove Beyond Reasonable Doubt, that the accused is guilty and for the accused to be acquited (if he / she indeed has a case to answer after the State’s Case) he / she only needs to give a version which is Reasonably Possibly True…. very unlike the measure of scales in Civil Cases. In other words, there is a larger burden of proof which falls onto the State in Criminal Cases.
@ grootblousmile:
Thanks Rudi, excellent summations, and exactly why I wanted your take on things.
29 @ Stormersboy:
Thanks, I take that as a compliment!
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