Chiefs steal it late
16 Mar 2012
RYAN VREDE reports on the Chiefs’ 29-22 victory over the Brumbies secured through a Jackson Willison try at the death.
It was by no means convincing but the Chiefs continue their early-season march, giving further fuel to the growing belief that they will be among the teams involved in the business end of the tournament. To progress beyond the play-offs they need to exorcise the demons that sporadically tempt them to abandon a balanced approach in favour of crowd-pleasing panache.
The Chiefs at times resembled the rudderless side they were last year, shifting the ball laterally without any platform to do so effectively. Where purpose had characterised their attacks prior to this match, there was too much hope of individual brilliance, which was in short supply. It was no surprise that both their tries were built on pragmatic phase play.
Credit to the Brumbies for their structure, accuracy and power on defence – hallmarks of a Jake White team. The pressure they were able to exert in this regard contributed significantly to a string of handling errors the Chiefs committed, although a number of their cough-ups were simply schoolboy.
The Brumbies should have been ahead at the break (tied 9-9) having shown greater composure on attack but lacking the killer blow in the red zone. Their phase play and rolling mauls troubled the Chiefs, who lacked the gainline physicality to stifle the former and the organisational skill to quell the latter. Their lack of punch in the tackle compromised their breakdown contest and resulted in them conceding a string of breakdown penalties, which Christian Lealiifano duly banked.
He traded three pointers with Aaron Cruden, the flyhalves kicking five apiece to lock the scores at 15-all going into the final quarter. However, you sensed that the Chiefs had the edge. With their cavalier spirit reigned in slightly they were able to exert pressure in a manner they never were in the first half. They worked through phases and rewarded when Sona Taumalolo drove over from close range. Cruden converted to give his side the lead with seven minutes to play.
But then the Chiefs showed their tactically naive side once more, attempting to run themselves out of their territory instead of punting deep and forcing the Brumbies to take risks. They turned over possession and with four minutes to play Brumbies lock Sam Carter burrowed over the whitewash. Lealiifano held his nerve to level the scores once more from a difficult angle.
But the Chiefs redeemed themselves immediately. They depleted the Brumbies’ defensive line through multiple phases before shifting the ball to Willison for the match-winning score.
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16 Mar 2012, 13:22 pm
@cane(cane)-147:
do you see this unintended double funny there..?..
16 Mar 2012, 13:22 pm
@cane(cane)-147: Indeed. And next on my list is “Hurricanes”. Terrible word. Highly offensive to victims of low pressure tropical cyclones. The way people throw it around with no regard just makes me sick.
16 Mar 2012, 13:22 pm
this = the
16 Mar 2012, 13:27 pm
@cane(cane)-147:
Ho tties = slang for H otNot
16 Mar 2012, 13:29 pm
@wpstormerbok(wpstormerbok)-154:
H otNot is the derogatory word to describe coloured people in SA, similiar to K for blacks and B for whites, or C for Indians
16 Mar 2012, 13:30 pm
@welcome to my life, hugh…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-151:
Maybe……………………………………..maybe not.
My mind does not work the way normal human brains work.
If I was not so modest, I would be perfect.
8)
16 Mar 2012, 13:34 pm
@wpstormerbok(wpstormerbok)-154:
well in the english part of the country, there is no such word as hot not.
and hot.tie refers to a hot babe, nothing else.
pity not all retards realise this 8)
16 Mar 2012, 13:37 pm
@charo(charo)-157: So Dawn is a Hot.tie?
16 Mar 2012, 13:38 pm
What about that Louw fella that played lock for WP a few years back? What was wrong with his parents for giving him such a disrespectful name?
16 Mar 2012, 13:40 pm
@wpstormerbok(wpstormerbok)-155:
Thank you wp.
A quick look at wikipedia has updated me.
16 Mar 2012, 13:42 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-159: So he was a Hott.ie too…
These Capies…
16 Mar 2012, 13:44 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-161:
Hello Pigsy.
16 Mar 2012, 13:44 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-159:
His mother probably thought he was going to be hot one day
Like Brad Pitt perhaps.
How was she to know he would turn out to be a fat bald headed rugby player?
16 Mar 2012, 13:46 pm
hottie
16 Mar 2012, 13:48 pm
I must admit… Hot.ties are not bad.
You get quite a few of them in Pretoria…
A lot of them blonde, unintelligible when listening to their attempts at sustained speech and tend to support Steve Hofmeyer’s team – Die Pienk Koeie….
But one glass of wine is all it takes…
16 Mar 2012, 13:49 pm
@welcome to my life, hugh…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-164:
hey……………………………………………..
16 Mar 2012, 13:49 pm
@cane(cane)-162: How’s your Mum, Gundwane?
16 Mar 2012, 13:51 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-158:
yaaaaaaaaaaa
flamenco dancer
16 Mar 2012, 13:51 pm
@cane(cane)-166:
*******
hottie
it must be the plural then?
16 Mar 2012, 13:53 pm
@charo(charo)-168: Flamenco Dancer? Hellsteeth… A real Ho.ttie then
16 Mar 2012, 13:54 pm
@cane(cane)-166:
which is a pity really as its one of the nicest ways to refer to a group of all round attractive girls. and by this i mean girls with a combination of attractive features and personality characteristics.
16 Mar 2012, 14:03 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-167:
Gundwane?
I assume this is not a nice word Pigsy.
16 Mar 2012, 14:06 pm
Congrats to Sachin.
At last.
16 Mar 2012, 14:09 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-173: What? A hundred hundreds?
16 Mar 2012, 14:13 pm
@welcome to my life, hugh…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-171:
Oh yeah I know what you mean Bakkies.
Every-time I see one of those Sports Illustrated swimsuit mags ………………………………….or better,……… the TV Documentary on photo shoots, pertaining to the Swimsuit Issue.
I always think of the marvelous personality characteristics that these women have.
16 Mar 2012, 14:16 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-174:
Yip, he made his 100th century in international cricket today in an ODI against Bamgladesh.
16 Mar 2012, 14:20 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-176: Would have been cool if he’d made it at Centurion.
16 Mar 2012, 14:27 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-177:
Lol, indeed.
Btw, i just checked on cricinfo- Ponting is currently second with 71 centuries, Kallis third with 59, and Lara finished his career with 53.
No other cricketer in the history of the game managed 50 or more centuries in international cricket (all formats).
16 Mar 2012, 14:33 pm
@cane(cane)-175:
16 Mar 2012, 14:35 pm
@cane(cane)-175:
I have no idea why his testosterone flies in all directions with women.
He loves Bakkies.
16 Mar 2012, 14:35 pm
Here is the list of News 24:
Top century-makers in history:
Under: Total, player, country, Tests, ODIs, Twenty20′s:
100 – Sachin Tendulkar (IND) 51 49 -
71 – Ricky Ponting (AUS) 41 30 -
59 – Jacques Kallis (RSA) 42 17 -
53 – Brian Lara (WIS) 34 19 -
48 – Rahul Dravid (IND) 36 12 -
45 – Mahela Jayawardene (SRI) 29 15 1
42 – Sanath Jayasuriya (SRI) 14 28 -
41 – Kumar Sangakkara (SRI) 28 13 -
40 – Matthew Hayden (AUS) 30 10 -
39 – Mohammad Yousuf (PAK) 24 15 -
38 – Mark Waugh (AUS) 20 18 -
38 – Sourav Ganguly (IND) 16 22 -
16 Mar 2012, 14:57 pm
No Englishmen in that list but three Sri Lankans…..that’s pretty amazing
16 Mar 2012, 15:02 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-181:
Interesting that only Jayasuriya nd Gangully (on the list) scored more 100′s in ODI’s than in tests.
Jayasuriya in fact scored twice as many hundreds in ODI’s in comparison to tests. He of course revolutionized One Day International batting by becoming the first international player to successfuly attack from the first over in order to take advantage of the early fielding restrictions. It was during the days when we were still used to the “Kepler style” of batting (defend for 40 overs and then attack only if there are wickets in hand)
16 Mar 2012, 15:09 pm
Over the last few days,
I noted a rather heated debate between Skoppie and the Younger Generation (Pullers),
concerning the merits of the greatest live perfomances’ of “The Age of Rock”.
Well, since this is a Chiefy Thread, and the fact that a certain Robbie Robinson plays for the Chiefs,
I nominate this as maybe the best, http://youtu.be/q-w9OclUnns
Martin Scorsese, might well back me up.
Skoppie certainly had The Band in his top 5.
Robbie Robinson……………………………………remember the name.
16 Mar 2012, 15:12 pm
@welcome to my life, hugh…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-142: @cane(cane)-144: @>^..^< katman(katman)-143: Hahahahaha. You guys are so silly.
16 Mar 2012, 15:20 pm
Another Scorsese masterpiece
http://youtu.be/eOi0tC00Luc
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
Live, real and with Robbie on guitar.
16 Mar 2012, 15:21 pm
@cane(cane)-184:
You must check Robbie doing “Forever young” and “Baby let me follow you down” with Bobby Z during “the Last Waltz” – it is on you tube.
I am not sure whether Skoppy rates Robbie ( the guitarist) nearly as much as he rates Jimmy or Carlos.
16 Mar 2012, 15:22 pm
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-185:
Hi………………………………….Cover Girl.
8)
16 Mar 2012, 15:27 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-187:
Jimmy refers to Hendrix and not Page— Skoppy only rates Hendrix (of the rockers)
Personally I think Page might have been better but what is the point of arguing it – they both geniuses..Robbie too… and also younger ones like Jack White, Joe Bonamassa, etc…..many more…
So much good music- one must just open your ears.
16 Mar 2012, 15:31 pm
@cane(cane)-175:
hehehe
we share the very best of common interests…dont we, caner…
16 Mar 2012, 15:32 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-180:
ag come on dawny…thats man love…totally different.
16 Mar 2012, 15:36 pm
@cane(cane)-184: Cane, my favourite is still this one:
Artist: The Band
Song: Somewhere Down The Crazy River Lyrics
Yeah, I can see it now
The distant red neon shivered in the heat
I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land
You know where people play games with the night
God, it was too hot to sleep
I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee
All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling
Fromright behind me
I turned around and she said
“Why do you always end up down at Nick’s Cafe?”
I said “I don’t know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way.”
She said “Hang the rich.”
Catch the blue train
To places never been before
Look for me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river
Catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river
Take a picture of this
The fields are empty, abandoned ’59 Chevy
Laying in the back seat listening to Little Willie John
Yea, that’s when time stood still
You know, I think I’m gonna go down to Madam X
And let her read my mind
She said “That Voodoo stuff don’t do nothing for me.”
I’m a man with a clear destination
I’m a man with a broad imagination
You fog the mind, you stir the soul
I can’t find, … no control
Catch the blue train
To places never been before
Look for me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river
Catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river
Wait, did you hear that
Oh this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me
She said “There’s one thing you’ve got to learn
Is not to be afraid of it.”
I said “No, I like it, I like it, it’s good.”
She said “You like it now
But you’ll learn to love it later.”
I been spellbound – falling in trances
I been spellbound – falling in trances
You give me shivers – chills and fever
I been spellbound – somewhere down the crazy river
16 Mar 2012, 15:37 pm
@cane(cane)-188:
16 Mar 2012, 16:12 pm
****, tired of gettin shot at
Tired of gettin chased by the police and arrested
Niggaz need a spot where WE can kick it
A spot where WE belong, that’s just for us
Niggaz ain’t gotta get all dressed up and be Hollywood
Y’knahmean? Where do niggaz go when we die?
Ain’t no heaven for a thug nigga
That’s why we go to thug mansion
That’s the only place where thugs get in free and you gotta be a G
… at thug mansion
16 Mar 2012, 16:12 pm
@cane(cane)-184: Good track, caner. I can dig that.
And yes folks, that guitar does indeed have two necks. Many of the folk who saw this back in the day blamed some intense double-dip acid that was doing the rounds at the time.
16 Mar 2012, 16:12 pm
Katman is a secret Rick Astley fan so, this one for you ol’ boy
She wants to dance
She wants to dance with me
Oh yeah
There’s a girl I’ve been waiting to see
And I really get the feeling that she likes me
‘Cos she said so, but not in so many words
I’ve got to tell you what I’ve heard
She don’t want no wild romance
When she’s with me she only wants to dance
She wants to dance with me
‘Cos I’ll hold her so tight next to me
She wants to dance with me
‘Cos I’ll let her be what she wants to be
Now I know I’ve been out of touch
And I never meant to hurt my baby oh, so much
‘Cos I love her and I think she love me
And that’s the way it’s got to be
When we’re together we never fight
We’ve got better things to do tonight
She wants to dance with me
‘Cos I’ll hold her so tight next to me
She wants to dance with me
‘Cos I’ll let her be what she wants to be
She wants to dance
She wants to dance
She wants to dance with me
‘Cos I’ll hold her so tight next to me
She wants to dance with me
‘Cos I’ll let her be what she wants to be
…
16 Mar 2012, 16:19 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-196: Hang on, was that funny? Did I miss it?
I can just imagine you trying to tell a joke.
16 Mar 2012, 16:20 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-197:
Indeed.
16 Mar 2012, 16:22 pm
Hi Mr DJ
I would like to send a dedication to Dawn from District Six
Just want to say that I hope you enjoy the weekend
Please play Hoi Chaklas (You are mine)
16 Mar 2012, 16:29 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-194: Westsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide
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