HC, Pool 2, Round 1: Exeter Chiefs vs Cardiff Blues

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I'm no George Carlin when it comes to setting up a new thread, but I thought I'd get one going for the other pool 2 match. It seems to me that both teams have had an indifferent start to the season, yet both seemed to hit their straps in their final game pre round 1, Cardiff Blues with a comfortable home win over Embra, and Exe putting Glaws to the sword at Kingsholm. Now admittedly Edinburgh have been pretty poor oppo this season, but equally Glaws were not on song yesterday, so perhaps we shouldn't read too much into either of these most recent encounters. Cardiff have now welcomed back their B&I Lions group, with strong displays from Jenkins, Warburton, Cuthbert and Halfpenny yesterday. For the Chiefs, DR Rob Baxter was delighted that at last his players delivered a full 80 minute performance, which has sadly been lacking season-to-date. All-in-all, this should lead to a pretty exciting encounter, both teams are an interesting blend of seasoned pros and promising youth (looking forward to the battle in the centres between Corey Allen and Sam Hill, two very exciting prospects) - can't wait to get back down to Sandy Park and soak up the atmosphere for this one

Card for Exeter

We're only 24 points down...   

Aghhh.... That b!oody ref cam again... What was the point of that.

Pleas Sky, real use it's rubbish and don't use it EVER again...

Chance for the blues now

HUGE 10 Mins. This is unreal.

Exeter down to 13!

If we can get them down to 10 we might have a chance!

Not really a big supporter of the Blues, but the daft decisions made by the coaching staff with selection and tactics is so frustrating, even for me. How can these 'professionals' be so incompetent.

not a yellow for me, it slid up and should of been a penalty only. Ref being kind to the blues here.

Can the blues have their 'rejects' back please?

2 man advantage in the back but mauling the ball, good stuff.

Blues have to score with pretty much every possession in this 10 minutes - and they are not doing that.

wales606 wrote:

whocares wrote:Would be nice if this was going to be another embra-racing type of come back

That was more of a continuing chance of lead, not a comeback from 40 points down!

Embra was 24 points down at some point when racing got a yellow  

Very impressed with Copeland. Can't see him staying with the blues if he isn't starting. I can see Connacht coming in for him.

Ah, the give the ball to Cuthbert aproach

Good guy Bradley.

Cuthbert was bound to get one, wasn't he.

this could get interesting for exeter soon! game on

If Blues get a BP from this shambles, it will be an unbelievable result...

o.O NEVER WAS THAT FORWARD.

Harsh forward call!

dont think the one he called was forward, but the one after was.

whocares wrote:Would be nice if this was going to be another embra-racing type of come back

I did suggest yo were edinburgh in disguise.; Its the pink shirts

Wow

We don't deserve that BP

2 man overlap. Better than that the 2 men outside you are Cuthbert an Halfpenny, so what do you do.... Yep. Kick it to touch... Clueless....


Ok, Robinson just got the BP, but still...

15 vs 15

Blues can't score now...

Well done Harry 'How many direction changes can I make before actually going forward in an attempt to look somewhat like Shane." Robinson

Hobbs is the worst scrummaging loosehead i have ever seen.

No9 wrote:Looks like it was all a bluff by the Blues... They where only giving the Chiefs a head start....

They'll come back now and win by a Halfpenny 50m kick ...

:-)

Said this in jest earlier.... But who knows ;-)

Sam Hobbs is the worst prop at any of the regions. Can an English club come and take him like LW did with Trevet?

Swperb wrote:Well done Harry 'How many direction changes can I make before actually going forward in an attempt to look somewhat like Shane." Robinson

  Cant think of a better description to be honest.

No9 wrote:

No9 wrote:Looks like it was all a bluff by the Blues... They where only giving the Chiefs a head start....

They'll come back now and win by a Halfpenny 50m kick ...

:-)

Said this in jest earlier.... But who knows ;-)

doubtful, it is a fair bit easier to score tries against 13 men (12 at one point).

Oooooohhh

So close for Copeland

The pratorius experiment seams to be a waste of time. Copeland to start from now on please.

dangerous stuff from exeter playing on their own line

has the ref got padding on?

nathan wrote:

No9 wrote:

No9 wrote:Looks like it was all a bluff by the Blues... They where only giving the Chiefs a head start....

They'll come back now and win by a Halfpenny 50m kick ...

:-)

Said this in jest earlier.... But who knows ;-)

doubtful, it is a fair bit easier to score tries against 13 men (12 at one point).

Agree, it was still tongue in cheek comment.

I can't get over the Blues managed to get 4 try's, that gives them a BP out of a routing... Get a Losing BP as well would be unbelievable.

Well it's going to be one heck of a video analysis session for both teams tomorrow!

Everytime Cuthbert touches the ball something happens

No9 wrote:

nathan wrote:

No9 wrote:

No9 wrote:Looks like it was all a bluff by the Blues... They where only giving the Chiefs a head start....

They'll come back now and win by a Halfpenny 50m kick ...

:-)

Said this in jest earlier.... But who knows ;-)

doubtful, it is a fair bit easier to score tries against 13 men (12 at one point).

Agree, it was still tongue in cheek comment.

I can't get over the Blues managed to get 4 try's, that gives them a BP out of a routing... Get a Losing BP as well would be unbelievable.

yeah agree with you!

Swperb wrote:The pratorius experiment seams to be a waste of time. Copeland to start from now on please.

Pretorius is an abrasive 6, not a 8.

nathan wrote:has the ref got padding on?

No it's that stupid feckin ref cam.

What a terrible side Cardiff are.

Well done to the Cheifs, put us to the sword when they had to. We have been VERY lucky to get a point from that. Next weekend will be scary.

Cuthburt and Copeland were superb in that half.

The Blues were forced to stop kicking all the ball away and then they actually managed to score tries

Do you think the coaches will realise that they should try to keep the ball so Cuthbert gets a go with it?

here's trev to spread his joyful wisdom!

Well done Exeter, but you really need to keep it going when you have a team on the ropes like that.

As for the Blues, how the hell you got a BP is still unbelievable, as it's kept you in the pool. But not for long unless something drastically changes.

We could have a new coaching set up by the next round of games. . . But i get the feeling we're not that lucky.

Trevor40 wrote:What a terrible side Cardiff are.

What a pointless poster Trevor40 is.... Touché

Davies has to go and very soon or there is no EU cup rugby next year whatever form it will take.

If the chiefs had not gone down to 13 men. Cardiff would have been well hammerd. in my opinion.

I said it yesterday after the Quins / Scarlets game. It is the first game of a long season and maybe, maybe the players are a little bit rusty. But that was a terrible first half by cardiff blues.