Chiefs serve up Super thrashing to poor Western Force

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Chiefs service up Super thrashing to mediocre Western Force

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By Alex Mitchell

May 5, 2024 — 9.30am

The Western Force’s disappointing Super Rugby Pacific run has deed different debased point, thrashed 56-7 by a merciless Chiefs outfit.

It proved casual enactment for Chiefs (7-3), with the hosts taking the pb wrong 2 minutes and seldom taking their ft disconnected the state successful the nine-tries-to-one beating successful Hamilton connected Saturday.

The show near Force skipper Jeremy Williams astatine a nonaccomplishment for words, lamenting his side’s shocking aboriginal ill-discipline.

They conceded 7 unanswered penalties successful the opening 25 minutes arsenic the Chiefs took control.

“Really tough, I don’t truly person [many] words for that,” Williams told Sky Sport.

“We were our ain worst force with our subject and piggy-backing them into our 22m. They conscionable capitalised connected it.

“I decidedly thought astatine the backmost of that archetypal fractional we gained a spot of momentum.

“But past we came retired successful the 2nd fractional and struggled to dilatory their ruck speed, they conscionable played connected apical of us.”

Chiefs winger Daniel Rona was the biggest beneficiary of the Force’s brushed defence with an awesome hat-trick.

The bottom-ranked Force’s mediocre distant grounds against the New Zealand-based sides ne'er looked similar being overturned arsenic their play grounds dropped to 2-8.

Winger Emoni Narawa scores 1  of the Chiefs’ 9  tries against the Western Force.

Winger Emoni Narawa scores 1 of the Chiefs’ 9 tries against the Western Force.Credit: AAP

They’ve mislaid each 3 of their encounters crossed the ditch - by an mean borderline of 32 points.

A Damian McKenzie punishment and a effort successful each country for wingers Emoni Narawa and Rona had the visitors connected the ropes successful conscionable 14 minutes.

And erstwhile All Blacks playmaker McKenzie crossed untouched disconnected a scrum play soon after, alarm bells were genuinely ringing.

The visitors lone recovered their feet successful the contention erstwhile their battalion forced a punishment effort connected the half-hour that saw Chiefs flanker Kaylum Boshier yellow-carded for collapsing the scrum arsenic it rolled towards the line.

But immoderate anticipation of a comeback was quashed erstwhile Bradley Slater punched successful an aboriginal second-half effort foe the Chiefs from a lineout maul.

The Chiefs ran rampant late, scoring 3 tries successful the past 11 minutes arsenic the wheels truly fell disconnected for the visitors.

McKenzie was successful sparkling form, with his fancy footwork helping him tally rings against the Force and make the bulk of his side’s attacking opportunities.

The Chiefs’ triumph backed up their 38-22 triumph against the NSW Waratahs past weekend.

“It’s awesome to beryllium backmost astatine location successful beforehand of our fans and to enactment it successful a show similar that contiguous that I’m precise arrogant of,” Chiefs skipper Kaylum Boshier told Sky Sport.

“[But] there’s ever things we tin enactment on.

“This play we’ve benignant of been up and down and to enactment 2 games back-to-back similar we have, we’re precise arrogant of that.”

The Force instrumentality to Perth aft their two-game travel to NZ, acceptable for a two-game homestand against the Fijian Drua and the NSW Waratahs.

-AAP

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