Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nMeanwhile, Taumoefolau scored two of his own as they go top of the ladder for a couple of hours before the Hurricanes-Blues contest.<\/p>\n
The combination of the two Chiefs backs caused nightmares for Moana Pasifika in the first half.<\/p>\n
The midfielder got the opener after Taumoefolau offloaded for Liam Coombes-Fabling, who drew the fullback for the try.<\/p>\n
Tupaea turned provider for the former Moana Pasifika flyer, then latching onto a Damian McKenzie chip kick to set up Samipeni Finau for a 19-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Moana Pasifika had plenty of chances to respond but couldn\u2019t crack the Chiefs line. Prop Paula Latu was twice held up over the line, forcing a desperate scramble from the Chiefs.<\/p>\n
But it was all the Chiefs as Tupaea nabbed his second right before half-time for a 26-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The hosts\u2019 tough fortunes were summed up in the 28th minute when a bloodied Tom Savage was yellow carded for a head-on-head shot, leaving them down to 14.<\/p>\n
It gave McKenzie a chance to get in on the fun, getting his second late in the contest. With those five pointers, the Chiefs superstar became the all-time leading try scorer, whilst also bringing up 1,500 points in Super Rugby.<\/p>\n
It sees the flyhalf close in on Morne Steyn (1,551) and Beauden Barrett (1,576) on the all-time point-scoring table, with Dan Carter still comfortable at the top (1,708).<\/p>\n
Former Chief Solomon Alaimalo got Moana Pasifika on the board after 50 minutes after a nice kick and chase.<\/p>\n
But Taumoefolau shortly afterwards added his second try, followed over by Josh Jacomb to bring up 50 points.<\/p>\n
Moana Pasifika added two consolation tries before the full-time siren; however, it was all in vain as Thompson\u2019s second capped off the win.<\/p>\n
The bonus point win ensures they will stay second at the end of the round, with the winner of the top-of-the-table clash leapfrogging them.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs face the Hurricanes next weekend, while Moana Pasifika will be out to rebound against the NSW Waratahs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quinn Tupaea and Kyren Taumoefolau have torn apart Moana Pasifika, powering the Chiefs to a 62-17 win in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,5386,216832,760,85,48013],"class_list":{"0":"post-599497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-moana-pasifika","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-rugby-pacific"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}