Roger Randle: Chiefs assistant coach on the side beating Moana Pasifika

Moana Pasifika's Super Rugby playoff hopes have taken a tumble after a 85-7 trouncing at the hands of leaders the Chiefs in Hamilton.
 
Moana shipped 13 tries on their way to the third heaviest loss in the competition history.

Chiefs assistant coach Roger Randle joined Piney to discuss.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Chiefs have demolished Mowana PACIFICA eighty five seven in
Hamilton to move back to the top of the Super
Rugby ladder.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Oh here we go. How good's that? What is Maiden?
Rahamarin pull the try?

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yeah fourteen on debut on the wing, pallace out to mackenzie,
McKenzie to Stevenson.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's in the air. Who's running for it, who's got it?
Who's there? And if a dry bucky, is it a try? Don't?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
We're going to have the penalty tries, the last one
which is going to take seven because you don't need
the conversion that is going to make it eighty five
points to seven, eighty minutes gone.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Pe try.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
There's just too many tries on my sheet to go
through and name them all, but thirty one millar at halftime,
eighty five to seven at full time.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Here the Chiefs running in thirteen tries to one, posting
the biggest margin in the Super Rugby Pacific era and
the third biggest in Super Rugby history dating all the
way back to nineteen ninety six. Assistant coach of the
Chiefs is Roger Randall, or one of the assistant coaches
he joined us. Now, Roger, thanks for taking our call.
I guess hard to have too many complaints when you

(01:18):
chalk up eighty five points. But what were you and
the rest of the coaching staff most pleased about last night?

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Well, you know, previously, I think the way we're respected
one other way I've been playing and was pretty bone.
We had a bit of preparation for potentially in the
week and then probably doing a little bit more and
after that. But you were just pleased to put out

(01:50):
a plan that most of the time came off.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Did you feel like this performance was coming, not just
this week, but did you feel like a really big
point scoring performance from your team was coming at some
stage this season?

Speaker 5 (02:05):
We played came on the moment this game really well,
had a settle, flat pets most of the eras when
our skill sets around twenty minutes and we've got three
tries up and then fortunately got a couple of tries

(02:27):
us for half time to to give us the more
confident than to see what happened last time we played
the Middle League p and then we you see mentionette,
but the guy in the bigger head them WHI very
good half team, very fat, and so we just started

(02:49):
well next eg and half and I went from here.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
How hard is it for players to stay disciplined when
the result is beyond doubt, when you're you know, you're
so far clear, you know you're going to win the match.
How challenging is it for a player or a playing
group to stay disciplined in situations like that?

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, they're probably the pleading aspect that the guys didn't
move too far away from what was working well, move
the ball. It was all off the back of our
set piece in our carrying kling game, which give us
some pretty good ball for the backs. So pretty simple
recipe of bupt. I guess that the boys executed for

(03:34):
the US part pretty well.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Over five hundred points for the season. Now points stuff
is over two hundred. Are these metrics that that you're
proud of? Uh?

Speaker 5 (03:45):
They ye are, But it's not we look at too often.
But I guess when they come down other points for
and against that that's always always handy. But but yeah,
it's nice to look at, I guess at times, so
we don't focus too much on the points for and
against us probably as the points on the table that
matter and getting those bonus points when when you can

(04:08):
and with little three of those slips, which is not ideal. Hence,
while we're the race is so tight at the moment,
so I think there's probably a few teams that could
say they've let some try screen bonus points go in
the past and maybe are losing bonus point here and there.
So all of the teams are in that top six
or fighting for positioning, those bonus points are pretty vital.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, well, as you say, it is so tight, you
still need to win your final game to be as
short of top spot. If you've got to go to
Dunedin on Friday night to get the win down there,
because behind you Crusaders and Brumbies who play one another,
so someone's probably going to win that game. How determined
ay to finish the job in Duneda, earn that top
spot and good advantage during the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah, definitely. We've really started a couple of meetings today,
leadership meetings and obviously coaches meetings just to play in
the week out Friday night. He's on the team that's
been pretty unlucky. You know, they should have won last
week and the week before against the hurricane.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
So.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
You know they're not far away. And I think had
about ten or eleven bonus points or losing bonus points
for being within seven points. So barre a real tough
team to crack. And I know they'll be very motivated
to finance their season on the high. So you know,
we'll prepare accordingly.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
How's Clayton mcmullandane in the last little while, we know
he's going. If you didn't know, would you know?

Speaker 5 (05:44):
And there's Bau. We were as coaches who were kind
of we're just going on with our job, and we
spoke about it early doors around when he was, you know,
considering going and decided to go. That we're just concentrating
their roles and by the smart remark every now and then,

(06:08):
all jokes that we get coaches or players go out,
it's s s yeah, carrying on with business as usual
and just trying to we know what our goalders and
all of other teams, so we're just focusing on it.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
And we saw him on the anotherwa go off early
in the game last night he reportedly went to hospital.
Any update you've got today.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
From him, he's been stitched up so but tender around there,
but hopefully it's not too bad. So yeah, just a
wounded to let the look after. As a as above's
top up under of nose, so it's a big delicate place,
so we're to see how he pulls up over the
next couple of days.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
All right, Roger, Well, congrats on a big one last
night and a great performance from your team. Hope you
can get the job done down in Dunedin and go
into the playoffs as top qualify. Mate. All the best
and thanks for the chat this afternoon, kids. I appreciate it, No,
appreciate your time, Roger. Thanks indeed, Roger Randall, Assistant coach
of the chief Stairs. So one round to go next
weekend before we have our top six who will go

(07:12):
forward to the finals, the playoffs, the postseason, whatever you
want to call it. Looking at the table currently, the
Chiefs have gone back to the top with that bonus
point win. They've got forty six points, the Crusaders have
forty five, the Brumbis have forty three. Now the Crusaders
and Brumbis play one another next in fact, this coming
Friday in Canberra, so whoever wins that game could potentially

(07:37):
finish top if the Chiefs don't beat the Highlanders. Now
they'll know that by the time they kick off, because
that's the opening game of the weekend. Highland As Chiefs
five past seven Friday night in Dunedin. The Highlanders are
currently bottom equal on points with the Drewer with twenty points,
so they can't make the six but what they can
do is at least finish with a bit of a

(07:58):
flourish Saturday is such an interesting day. So Chiefs, Crusaders, Bumbi's.
They're in the top six. They can't fur out of
the top six. The Hurricanes cannot fall out of the
top six either. They have thirty four points. The Reds
have thirty three. They cannot fall out of the top
six either. So we've got five of the top six.

(08:19):
The sixth position is going to be taken by one
of Mawanna Pacifica, the Blues or the war Retars. Now
the Blues and Waratars play one another on Saturday at
half past four. The war Retars, if they were to
beat the Blues, would jump above them and Mawana Pacifica,
But Mawonna Pacificas still have to play the Hurricanes, so

(08:40):
the warri Tars can still make the six if they
come to Edon Park and beat the Blues, which, given
the way the Blues have been playing the season a
but up and down wouldn't be a massive massive shop.
If the war Retars beat the Blues and then the
Hurricanes beat Mauna pacifica, the war Retars make the six
and we would have an even three to three split
in the top six Australian and New Zealand sides.

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