Unbeaten Chiefs go in as favourites according to the bookies .

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19-14 after 57m..DMac having a blinder at 10, despite little possession. 

19-22.  63rd

22-21

Gatland's lad plays FB for Chiefs...looks just like his dad.

22-24...9min left.

and DMac makes another try!!!

27-24...6 to go.

32-24

Would love to see how my Stormers would do against any of these 2 teams.

34-24 Final score.

My impression is this game was much more intense than most NH matches. That said McKenzie was by far the best back on the field, suggesting things haven’t progressed all that much.

The Saders backs looked toothless. They talked up Havili big time, but the Boks have never had any problems with him. And Moanga blew the whole thing with a stupid box kick from inside his 22 which handed possession back to the Chiefs, who immediately scored to take the lead.

One would have to assume the ABs involved are much better prepared for the WC….higher intensity and playing for and against their team mates.

Going up north was a huge mistake.

mmm....we can't really know before we've seem them play each other...in the past, NZ teams looked fantastic when playing each other, just to look more mortal as soon as they play a good SA side...going up North was the only option after they kicked us out...we can be glad the Celts were willing to accommodate us.

Congrats to the Chiefs! By all accounts a great game with D Mac putting in a very good performance. I just hope he’s not seen as too erratic for the WC. You’d have to think he’s at least selected as a backup as he’s versatile & that he plays in the second tier games.

He's the best 10 in NZ...by far.

Awesome game with the Mighty Chiefs coming out on top after a titanic struggle.

Saders unlucky to not have half time lead with 2 tries disallowed but them’s the breaks with 2 knock-ons picked up in the build-up to both.

Mounga to start at 10 in tests for me, Beauden at 15 and DMac the awesome sub for the 2nd half when the opposition tires.

Shaun Stevenson has to also be in the ABs with his outstanding skills and pace. He is comfortable at either wing or fullback. With Will Jordan in the wings waiting to re-enter the fray, the ABs will have a back 3 and subs that any other team will envy.

Fair point on the disallowed tries….not sure the one ball actually went forward. To me it looked like it was going towards the Saders and the touch tipped it up if anything.

Moz, With Gardiner charging through and touching the ball with his fingertips, I don’t think it was possible for the ball not to travel forward, even if ever so slightly.

Some supporters are fooled when the ball bounces back towards the attacking team but of course it’s what happens in the air that counts.

". . . in the past, NZ teams looked fantastic when playing each other, just to look more mortal as soon as they play a good SA side . . ."

"I remember our best sides being taken to the cleaners on their tours to NZ, getting hammered by NZ teams who often rested their best players against us as they saved them for the much tougher games against the other NZ sides"

This was true most of the time, but not always...there were a few exceptions. Stop being such a d!ck most of the time.

"Stop being such a d!ck most of the time."

OK, so a passable vocabulary doesn't necessarily translate into good comprehension...gotcha! Ignorant my arse...from what you wrote one would think no Saffa team was ever able to win a match against the NZ rugby gods...stop being such a gatkruiper...

...and I don't make deals with miserable cowards like you...and it's not in your nature not to be a d!ck.

There's irony for you . . . the most embarrassingly obsequious, fawning and grovelling suck-up in the history of this board calling someone else a gatkruiper.

LMAO!

Rudeneck's stupidity is like an elemental force of nature...no point in fighting it...Earth, Wind, Fire and Water don't have a patch since Rooi introduced: Fart...an unique blend of the original 4, but with an added twist of spite ...unstoppable !

"...calling someone else a gatkruiper.

LMAO!"

The evidence is right there...you are one of the biggest suck ups on this board...

We experience the wee lass very differently. She'd like to have us believe she's a force of nature. It never amounts to more than a little squeak. Or maybe more of a scurry, like a cockroach. It always ends with Mrs Searle being humiliated. I can't help but think we're enablers for her strange fetish.