Chiefs pick up bonus point victory against the Force

[robyn <3]

Oh-my-gosh.

Chiefs pick up bonus point victory against the Force

Article Published: Friday 6 March 2009
Editor: Rugbyweek.com

Chiefs pick up bonus point victory against the Force

The Chiefs got their first victory of the 2009 Super 14 on Friday when they beat the Force by 31 points to 13 and picked up the bonus point in extra time for the fourth try.

Lelia Masaga opened the scoring for the Chiefs by scoring their first try after creating an overlap on the wing. Stephen Donald converted the try which set up a lead for the Chiefs that was never conceded.

Two penalty kicks from the Force brought the Force to within a point after 12 minutes but that was the closest they got as two tries in the space of five minutes in the last quarter of the first half took the Chiefs to a half time lead of 21-6.
More to follow.

Final Score Chiefs 31 Force 13

Scorers

Chiefs
Tries -Lelia Masaga ,Brendon Leonard,Richard Kahui, Colin Bourke
Penalties -Stephen Donald
Conversions -Stephen Donald 4
Drop Goals -
Force
Tries -Tamaiti Horua
Penalties -Matt Giteau,Cameron Shepherd
Conversions -Matt Giteau
Drop Goals -


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[prop53]

back to the drawing board

[pieter blackie]

back to the drawing board

I DO NOT THINK THEY TOOK IT WITH TO NZ

[prop53]

Your right there Pieter

[Elf1]

I will post it tomorrow

[prop53]

Seems to me that since Gits made is mind up to leave so as his game tonight again poor passing, kicking and he insists on throwing the ball away in tackles rather then presenting? Roll on end of season.

[James]

Seems to me that since Gits made is mind up to leave so as his game tonight again poor passing, kicking and he insists on throwing the ball away in tackles rather then presenting? Roll on end of season.

Giteau shouldn't be the first person to point the finger at. I thought after a good week last week Shepherd was pretty awful and should've stopped two, if not three, of their tries. Ryan Cross was also pretty average.

[slomo]

I DO NOT THINK THEY TOOK IT WITH TO NZ

the committee voted against it....

[slomo]

Giteau shouldn't be the first person to point the finger at. I thought after a good week last week Shepherd was pretty awful and should've stopped two, if not three, of their tries. Ryan Cross was also pretty average.

add to that too many missed tackles...

[mudskipper]

Seems to me that since Gits made is mind up to leave so as his game tonight again poor passing, kicking and he insists on throwing the ball away in tackles rather then presenting? Roll on end of season.

Again poor passing?... sorry he put in some killer passing which won the game in canberra last week... don't lay all the loss at his feet please....

[jargan83]

looks like the Freo Dockers syndrome has hit. 1 step forward by having a huge win one week then 2 steps back by playing the way they did tonight.

Blame not to laid at any single player, they were all ordinary, of course some offended more then others
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[Tazzmania]

Lets not get despondent, while we were pretty average, the Chiefs were awesome, some great running and they attacked the loose with venom. Credit where its due even if we played better we would have found it hard to beat them especially the way they played the first half.

[Swee_82]

Well that was ass.

Granted I didn't see any footage, so probably not as frustrating for me as for those who did, but it sure felt like the general flow of Jarg's commentry (for the first half I followed)was:

Chiefs turnover- Force on attack
(30 sec later) Knock on

Well, that and alot of missed tackles.

Think Jarg's analogy to Freo is quite apt. Man that's dissapointing after last week's elation.

[tragic]

Turnovers and missed tackles Every time we contested, it seemed like the ball popped out on the Chiefs' side. The end-of-game stats made it look like it was a close match, but the scoreboard showed something else.

The intensity of last week seemed to be transferred to the Chiefs. We were all over the shop, and the Chiefs were constantly in our face.

Farrout. Congrats, Chiefs. Even your fumble-fingers couldn't save us!

[mudskipper]

I missed the match hopefully i'll get to catch a re-run over the weekend tahs v Reds match was good... Reds blew it really...tahs still no loss this season brumbies will have to blow out their flame next week next.....