The Chiefs have marched back to the top of the Super Rugby Pacific ladder after a 46-10 hiding of the Highlanders in Hamilton.
The hosts ran in five second half tries, scoring 33 unanswered points after leading 13-10 at the break.
Gold Sport commentator Graeme 'Minty' Mead joined Piney to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Chiefs back to the top of the Super Rugby
Pacific Ladder, are forty sixteen hiding of the Highlanders in Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
He comes to.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Kick, Oh Sammer Penny Fee. Now he's on the left wing.
He's getting the ball, he waits, he picks it up.
Penny scores and he's gonna make it worse. He's gonna
go into the post just to annoy the Islanders.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's the voice of Graham Minty mead Our, Goldsport commentator
for Chiefs games. Just sounds like you enjoyed yourself last night, Minty.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, the second eighteen minutes of the second half were
quite exhilarating. The first half. The Highlanders came out with
a plan and I think the Chiefs were still carrying
New South Wales for the first forty minutes and the
Highlanders nearly had had the wood on the defensively, the
Chiefs couldn't find anything, so I don't know what Clayton
McMillan said at half time, and the boys reckoned nothing.
They just sat in silence. But it came right in
(01:03):
the second.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Half, Well, sometimes silence is the best they It's like
it's they probably knew Clayton mcmiller was extremely disappointed with them.
Rather than ransom, rave and throw things around the change
and we probably just let them sit there and stew
And as your Saymnty, it was certainly a very different
second half. What did you see differently, you know, different
from the Chiefs in the second half, Well.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Just all retention we talked about the Hurricanes. I had
just talk about the mistakes in the first half. The
Chiefs for mistake ridden. They weren't protecting possession, they weren't
sort of how I'd just say putting two or three
around the rucks and walls in the Highlanders really had
a plan to actually knock them back off their feet
and it was a solid defense. But in the second
half they started to realize their skill. They were running
(01:46):
off each other off their shoulder beautifully, and then just
gaps opened up and wow, it just it just took
the Highlands apart and once the Chiefs got up there
was no coming back from that. Thirty three unanswered points
in about nineteen minutes was pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I want to ask about a couple of players specifically
Minty first as Quintupaia, who we know had that long
term injury but his back and has started the majority
of matches at second five for the Chiefs this season.
How do you assess his performances and is he back
in that all Blacks frame.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think he's got to be piney goody, and I
had a good yarn about it last night. He negated
Taatava Nahai. That was a great battle there. But he's
doing a lot of carrying first off the ruck and
the mall and the scrum. His defense is outstanding. He's
got his speedback, he's fit. There's not worse players around
in the Super Rugby at the moment than I'd be
(02:39):
hoping he'd have a sniff of that. He really has
become a bit of the backbone of that back line
now with Lennart Brown having a couple of concussion injuries.
Daniel Rohan is an unsunning hero, but yeah, Tupi makes
everybody around him look pretty good and his defense is
outstand outstanding.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Brody McAllister, now you've got a team that's got Summersauny
Tokiyaho in it, and maybe Clayton McMillan has decided, as
he did earlier in the season, that impact is as
important as starting. But Brody McAllister, I think, well, he
won two, three, four or five half a dozen games
he started. What have you made of his performances at hooker.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, I think he's come up here and kJ caught
up with him last night. He sort of reinvented himself,
he said. New surroundings, new people, new challenges, and the
fact you've also got the one other one you miss.
You've got Slaters sitting there as well. There's three starting
hookers at the Chiefs and Super Rugby and competition makes
for better play. And the Takiajo's coming on. I think
(03:34):
he's a bit ropie. He's not starting. But by Jingers,
I wouldn't mind having a bench that the Chiefs have
got coming on every week.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, that's that's it too. You know, they are very
deep and they've already used more players than most of
the other teams. And CLAYK McMillan at the start of
the season, I mean you look at the as you say,
look at the bench that he had. Even in the
very first game against the Blues, he had he had
two porv some a penny female courtis love to anteon
Lena Brown and him on in Nadawah on his bench.
He's spoilt for choice just on female some a penny
(04:05):
female another a big performance for him last night as well.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, mate, Look, I think he's contained his unwillingness to
sort of tackle a bit high. They've been working really
hard on that. He's still aggressive, he's still big, he's
still vicious, but he's maintained a tackling stance that's getting
underneath sort of that chest line and it's making him
better player. He's not spending time in the bin and
we need him on the field. And he had a
(04:30):
big game last night. He's around the ball, his speed,
Lots of things to like about the guy. But again,
the Chiefs have got depth. We looked at the Highlands
last night. We said, okay, all blacks Ethan the grout
hurt his ankle as he warmed up. We've got Fuckert Tava,
We've got Tavatava, Nahai and Fabian Hollanden. That's about the
ones that are in line for anything the Chiefs. Look,
(04:53):
the Chiefs have got probably an all black side.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well that and again it speaks to their depth. But Minti,
the big question is, look, they were good last year
as well. They were very good in twenty twenty three.
In fact, I thought that they were as good as
I've ever seen or certainly in the last decade since
they won it in twenty twenty three when they made
it all the way to the final but couldn't beat
the Crusaders in Hamilton. Is this not third time lucky?
(05:18):
But is this third times a charm for Clay McMillan
as he set sail for Munster at the end of
the season.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I hope. So, finally, tenth of May is going to
be the talent game of the season. I think down
in Crusader territory one versus two, if it stays the
way it is, if the Chiefs play eighty minutes like
they did forty last night and they struggled to put
an eighty minute together, there won't be a side that'll
stay with them. But down there, you know that stadium's
running out of time. There's a new one coming. The
(05:46):
Crusaders have got their tails up at the moment. That's
going to be the telling blow for who has the
final and who has the final will win it? All right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Minte will and Georgia call. Last night. I was flicking
between television, radio and all sorts of other bits and pieces.
Loved your highlights that I listened to this morning as
well the enthusiasm and energy you bring. So thank you
for your commentary. Thank you for joining us on Easter Sunday. Mate,
enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Not a problem matter, will say one thing. Steve Gordon
came and commentated with me last night. He tore his
bicep on his left arm two days ago and it
was strapped up the poor bigger car, hardly walk and
he still turns up to play rugby.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He's not playing rugby? He can still talk with a
torn bicep. Cardy goody to know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He wasn't moving too much, and he wasn't a happy camper,
but he wasn't going to miss the game of rugby.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I want to tell you why I put it this way.
You wouldn't have known. You wouldn't have known listening to
him that he'd torn his bicep. Thankfully he didn't. He
didn't tear his vocal cords. Stay well, mate, we'll latchet
again soon.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Thanks bidey, take care all of.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Us, mate, that's Minty Graham, Minty Mead from the White Cuttle.
He calls our Chiefs games on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio
and enjoyed that last night a forty six' teen win
for The chiefs last.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Night for more From Weekend sport With Jason, fine listen
live To News talk ZED B weekend from, midday or
follow the podcast On iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Chiefs back to the top of the Super Rugby
Pacific Ladder, are forty sixteen hiding of the Highlanders in Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
He comes to.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Kick, Oh Sammer Penny Fee. Now he's on the left wing.
He's getting the ball, he waits, he picks it up.
Penny scores and he's gonna make it worse. He's gonna
go into the post just to annoy the Islanders.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's the voice of Graham Minty mead Our, Goldsport commentator
for Chiefs games. Just sounds like you enjoyed yourself last night, Minty.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, the second eighteen minutes of the second half were
quite exhilarating. The first half. The Highlanders came out with
a plan and I think the Chiefs were still carrying
New South Wales for the first forty minutes and the
Highlanders nearly had had the wood on the defensively, the
Chiefs couldn't find anything, so I don't know what Clayton
McMillan said at half time, and the boys reckoned nothing.
They just sat in silence. But it came right in
(01:03):
the second.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Half, Well, sometimes silence is the best they It's like
it's they probably knew Clayton mcmiller was extremely disappointed with them.
Rather than ransom, rave and throw things around the change
and we probably just let them sit there and stew
And as your Saymnty, it was certainly a very different
second half. What did you see differently, you know, different
from the Chiefs in the second half, Well.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Just all retention we talked about the Hurricanes. I had
just talk about the mistakes in the first half. The
Chiefs for mistake ridden. They weren't protecting possession, they weren't
sort of how I'd just say putting two or three
around the rucks and walls in the Highlanders really had
a plan to actually knock them back off their feet
and it was a solid defense. But in the second
half they started to realize their skill. They were running
(01:46):
off each other off their shoulder beautifully, and then just
gaps opened up and wow, it just it just took
the Highlands apart and once the Chiefs got up there
was no coming back from that. Thirty three unanswered points
in about nineteen minutes was pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I want to ask about a couple of players specifically
Minty first as Quintupaia, who we know had that long
term injury but his back and has started the majority
of matches at second five for the Chiefs this season.
How do you assess his performances and is he back
in that all Blacks frame.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think he's got to be piney goody, and I
had a good yarn about it last night. He negated
Taatava Nahai. That was a great battle there. But he's
doing a lot of carrying first off the ruck and
the mall and the scrum. His defense is outstanding. He's
got his speedback, he's fit. There's not worse players around
in the Super Rugby at the moment than I'd be
(02:39):
hoping he'd have a sniff of that. He really has
become a bit of the backbone of that back line
now with Lennart Brown having a couple of concussion injuries.
Daniel Rohan is an unsunning hero, but yeah, Tupi makes
everybody around him look pretty good and his defense is
outstand outstanding.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Brody McAllister, now you've got a team that's got Summersauny
Tokiyaho in it, and maybe Clayton McMillan has decided, as
he did earlier in the season, that impact is as
important as starting. But Brody McAllister, I think, well, he
won two, three, four or five half a dozen games
he started. What have you made of his performances at hooker.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, I think he's come up here and kJ caught
up with him last night. He sort of reinvented himself,
he said. New surroundings, new people, new challenges, and the
fact you've also got the one other one you miss.
You've got Slaters sitting there as well. There's three starting
hookers at the Chiefs and Super Rugby and competition makes
for better play. And the Takiajo's coming on. I think
(03:34):
he's a bit ropie. He's not starting. But by Jingers,
I wouldn't mind having a bench that the Chiefs have
got coming on every week.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, that's that's it too. You know, they are very
deep and they've already used more players than most of
the other teams. And CLAYK McMillan at the start of
the season, I mean you look at the as you say,
look at the bench that he had. Even in the
very first game against the Blues, he had he had
two porv some a penny female courtis love to anteon
Lena Brown and him on in Nadawah on his bench.
He's spoilt for choice just on female some a penny
(04:05):
female another a big performance for him last night as well.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, mate, Look, I think he's contained his unwillingness to
sort of tackle a bit high. They've been working really
hard on that. He's still aggressive, he's still big, he's
still vicious, but he's maintained a tackling stance that's getting
underneath sort of that chest line and it's making him
better player. He's not spending time in the bin and
we need him on the field. And he had a
(04:30):
big game last night. He's around the ball, his speed,
Lots of things to like about the guy. But again,
the Chiefs have got depth. We looked at the Highlands
last night. We said, okay, all blacks Ethan the grout
hurt his ankle as he warmed up. We've got Fuckert Tava,
We've got Tavatava, Nahai and Fabian Hollanden. That's about the
ones that are in line for anything the Chiefs. Look,
(04:53):
the Chiefs have got probably an all black side.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well that and again it speaks to their depth. But Minti,
the big question is, look, they were good last year
as well. They were very good in twenty twenty three.
In fact, I thought that they were as good as
I've ever seen or certainly in the last decade since
they won it in twenty twenty three when they made
it all the way to the final but couldn't beat
the Crusaders in Hamilton. Is this not third time lucky?
(05:18):
But is this third times a charm for Clay McMillan
as he set sail for Munster at the end of
the season.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I hope. So, finally, tenth of May is going to
be the talent game of the season. I think down
in Crusader territory one versus two, if it stays the
way it is, if the Chiefs play eighty minutes like
they did forty last night and they struggled to put
an eighty minute together, there won't be a side that'll
stay with them. But down there, you know that stadium's
running out of time. There's a new one coming. The
(05:46):
Crusaders have got their tails up at the moment. That's
going to be the telling blow for who has the
final and who has the final will win it? All right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Minte will and Georgia call. Last night. I was flicking
between television, radio and all sorts of other bits and pieces.
Loved your highlights that I listened to this morning as
well the enthusiasm and energy you bring. So thank you
for your commentary. Thank you for joining us on Easter Sunday. Mate,
enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Not a problem matter, will say one thing. Steve Gordon
came and commentated with me last night. He tore his
bicep on his left arm two days ago and it
was strapped up the poor bigger car, hardly walk and
he still turns up to play rugby.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He's not playing rugby? He can still talk with a
torn bicep. Cardy goody to know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He wasn't moving too much, and he wasn't a happy camper,
but he wasn't going to miss the game of rugby.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I want to tell you why I put it this way.
You wouldn't have known. You wouldn't have known listening to
him that he'd torn his bicep. Thankfully he didn't. He
didn't tear his vocal cords. Stay well, mate, we'll latchet
again soon.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Thanks bidey, take care all of.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Us, mate, that's Minty Graham, Minty Mead from the White Cuttle.
He calls our Chiefs games on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio
and enjoyed that last night a forty six' teen win
for The chiefs last.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Night for more From Weekend sport With Jason, fine listen
live To News talk ZED B weekend from, midday or
follow the podcast On iHeartRadio
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