{"id":37254,"date":"2019-05-17T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/?p=37254"},"modified":"2019-05-17T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:37:57","slug":"super-rugby-preview-blues-v-chiefs-18-05-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/super-rugby\/2019\/05\/super-rugby-preview-blues-v-chiefs-18-05-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rugby Preview: Blues v Chiefs (18\/05\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36220\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/super-rugby-2019-draw\/attachment\/1blues19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1blues19.jpg?fit=219%2C53&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"219,53\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1blues19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1blues19.jpg?fit=219%2C53&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1blues19.jpg?resize=219%2C53&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"53\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36223\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/super-rugby-2019-draw\/attachment\/1chie19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1chie19.jpg?fit=219%2C53&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"219,53\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1chie19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1chie19.jpg?fit=219%2C53&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36223\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1chie19.jpg?resize=219%2C53&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"53\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"Opta-Striped\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Chiefs are undefeated in their last 15 games against the Blues in Super Rugby (W14, D1); winning their last three clashes against the Auckland side.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues have won just two of their last 35 Super Rugby fixtures against opposition from New Zealand (D1, L32), both victories in that spell coming against the Highlanders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Chiefs are winless in their last four New Zealand derbies away from home (D1, L3), they haven&#8217;t won such a fixture in Super Rugby since June 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues have won four of their last five home games in Super Rugby (L1), only once in that time was the fulltime margin greater than 10 points.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Chiefs have won just two of their last seven games away from home in Super Rugby (D1, L4), having led by double-digits at half-time in each of those wins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues have scored three tries or more in six of their last seven home games in Super Rugby, after having done so just once in five games prior.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues have the best scrum success rate in Super Rugby 2019 (97%), five percentage points higher than the Chiefs (92%).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Chiefs average the most offloads per-game in Super Rugby 2019 (13), three more than the Blues (10).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Chiefs have scored 110 points in the second quarter of matches in Super Rugby 2019, the most of any team in the competition and 60 more than the Blues (50).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Rieko Ioane (Blues) has made the second most clean breaks (23) of any player in Super Rugby 2019, one behind overall leader Sevu Reece (24) and seven more than Chiefs&#8217; best Tumua Manu (16).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues have played the Chiefs 31 times in Super rugby since 1996 and the Blues have won 10 matches, drawn 1 and lost 20 times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues 10 wins out of 31 matches gives them a record of winning 32% of their matches against the Chiefs regardless of venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">This weekend the match will be played in Auckland which is home for the Blues and the venue where the teams have met 13 times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In those 13 matches played in Auckland the Blues have won 5 matches, lost 4 and drawn one. This gives the Blues a record of winning 39% of their matches against the Chiefs at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The average score when the Blues play the Chiefs in Auckland is : Blues 23 Chiefs 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Blues have not beaten the Chiefs in the last six matches played in Auckland. The teams did draw in 2017 but for the Blues that was the best result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The last time the Blues beat the Chiefs at home was back in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Average score:<\/strong>\u00a0Blues 22 Chiefs 36<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Last five results\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sat, 13 Apr 2019 Blues v Chiefs 29-33 Hamilton<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sat, 07 Apr 2018 Blues v Chiefs 19-21 Hamilton<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fri, 02 Mar 2018 Blues v Chiefs 21-27 Auckland<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fri, 26 May 2017 Blues v Chiefs 16-16 Auckland<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fri, 03 Mar 2017 Blues v Chiefs 26-41 Waikato<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Blues overall record against the Chiefs<br \/>\n<\/strong>Played 31, Wins 10, Losses 20, Draws 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Teams<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Blues<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">1 Alex Hodgman, 2 James Parsons, 3 Ofa Tuungafasi, 4 Patrick Tuipulotu (co-capt), 5 Scott Scrafton, 6 Dalton Papalii, 7 Blake Gibson (co-capt), 8 Akira Ioane, 9 Jonathan Ruru, 10 Harry Plummer, 11 Rieko Ioane, 12 Ma\u2019a Nonu, 13 TJ Faiane (VC), 14 Caleb Clarke, 15 Melani Nanai.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Replacements<\/strong>: 16 Matt Moulds, 17 Lua Li, 18 Karl Tu\u2019inukuafe, 19 Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, 20 Tom Robinson, 21 Augustine Pulu, 22 Otere Black, 23 Matt Duffie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Chiefs<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">15 Solomon Alaimalo, 14 Sean Wainui, 13 Tumua Manu, 12 Anton Lienert-Brown, 11 Etene Nanai-Seturo, 10 Marty McKenzie, 9 Brad Weber (captain), 8 Tyler Ardron, 7 Mitchell Karpik, 6 Pita Gus Sowakula, 5 Mitchell Brown, 4 Jesse Parete, 3 Angus Ta\u2019avao, 2 Nathan Harris, 1 Atu Moli<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Replacements<\/strong>: 16 Liam Polwart, 17 Aidan Ross, 18 Nepo Laulala, 19 Mitchell Jacobson, 20 Sam Cane, 21 Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi, 22 Shaun Stevenson, 23 Alex Nankivell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Match Officials and details<br \/>\nDate :<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday 18 May<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Venue\u00a0<\/strong>:\u00a0Eden Park, Auckland<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Kick Off local<\/strong>: 19:35<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Referee<\/strong>: Glen Jackson<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Assistant Ref 1<\/strong>:Nick Briant<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Assistant Ref 2<\/strong>:Dan Waenga<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>TMO<\/strong>\u00a0:Glenn Newman<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36412\" style=\"width: 577px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allthingsrugby.store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/super-rugby\/2019\/03\/super-rugby-preview-blues-v-highlanders-22-03-19\/attachment\/emailsig\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/emailSig.jpg?fit=577%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"577,150\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"emailSig\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/allthingsrugby.store&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/emailSig.jpg?fit=577%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-36412 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/emailSig.jpg?resize=577%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/emailSig.jpg?w=577&amp;ssl=1 577w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/emailSig.jpg?resize=300%2C78&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/allthingsrugby.store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/allthingsrugby.store<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chiefs are undefeated in their last 15 games against the Blues in Super Rugby (W14, D1); 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The Blues have won just two of their last 35 Super Rugby fixtures against opposition from New Zealand (D1, L32), both victories in that spell coming against the Highlanders&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Super Rugby Preview: \r\nBlues v Chiefs (18\/05\/19)\r\n\r\nMatch Preview \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yf19-9GS\r\n\r\n#BLUvCHI #SUPERRUGBY\r\n\r\n\r\nVisit \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/allthingsrugby.store\r\n\"Your Store to Support Your Team\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4834,4838,4932,4832],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-chiefs","category-latest-news","category-super-rugby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/66666666666x767__origin__0x0_Akira_Ioane.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yf19-9GS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41186,"url":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/super-rugby\/2024\/06\/2024-super-rugby-pacific-grand-final-teams\/","url_meta":{"origin":37254,"position":0},"title":"2024 Super Rugby Pacific Grand Final Teams","author":"rr_admin","date":"June 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"2024 Super Rugby Pacific Grand Final Teams The Blues and Chiefs have confirmed their sides for the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific Final. 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