The Western Drive’s disappointing Tremendous Rugby Pacific marketing campaign has clash any other low level, thrashed 56-7 through a cruel Chiefs outfit.
It proved simple paintings for Chiefs (7-3), taking the govern within two mins and seldom taking their footing off the fuel within the nine-tries-to-one beating in Hamilton on Saturday.
The ground-ranked Drive’s needful away document towards the Unused Zealand-based aspects by no means appeared like being overturned as their season document dropped to 2-8.
They’ve misplaced all 3 in their encounters around the ditch – through a median margin of 32 issues.
Chiefs winger Daniel Rona used to be the largest beneficiary of the Drive’s comfortable defence with an noteceable hat-trick.
Self-discipline used to be a weighty weakness, the Drive conceding seven unanswered consequences within the opening 25 mins.
A Damian McKenzie penalty and a struggle in each and every nook for wingers Emoni Narawa and Rona had the guests at the ropes in simply 14 mins.
And when All Blacks playmaker McKenzie crossed pristine off a scrum play games quickly upcoming, alarm bells had been actually ringing.
The guests handiest discovered their ft within the match when their bind pressured a penalty struggle at the 30 minutes that noticed Chiefs flanker Kaylum Boshier yellow-carded for collapsing the scrum because it rolled against the series.
However any hope of a comeback used to be quashed when Bradley Slater punched in an early second-half struggle foe the Chiefs from a lineout maul.
The Chiefs ran rampant overdue, scoring 3 tries within the closing 11 mins because the wheels actually fell off for the guests.
McKenzie used to be in glowing mode, along with his fancy footwork serving to him run rings towards the Drive and develop the majority of his facet’s attacking alternatives.
The Drive go back to Perth upcoming their two-game commute to NZ, all set for a two-game homestand towards the Fijian Drua and the NSW Waratahs.
