{"id":452563,"date":"2026-05-30T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452563\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:40:12","slug":"super-rugby-pacific-big-chiefs-win-consigns-blues-to-christchurch-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452563\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rugby Pacific: Big Chiefs win consigns Blues to Christchurch playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chiefs<\/p>\n

\nChiefs celebrate a try in a big win over the Blues.
\nPhoto: Blake Armstrong\/Photosport\n<\/p>\n

All Blacks loose forward Wallace Sititi has inspired the Chiefs to a stunning 59-34 Super Rugby Pacific victory over the Blues in Hamilton.<\/p>\n

The Blues were chasing a home qualifying final when the playoffs start next week, but just couldn’t keep pace with the Chiefs in the second half.<\/p>\n

In the end, the Chiefs ran in nine tries to five from the Blues.<\/p>\n

Captaining the Chiefs for the first time, Sititi had a magnificent all-round game and scored a try, taking a quick penalty tap and catching the Blues defence napping.<\/p>\n

Wing Daniel Sinkinson scored two tries for the victors.<\/p>\n

The Blues led early and were down by just four points at halftime, and still in the contest in the 53rd minute at 26-20 – but then Chiefs cut loose.<\/p>\n

The Blues suffered their third NZ derby loss in a row, after going down to the Crusaders and Hurricanes in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs will have a home qualifying final against Queensland Reds next Saturday (6.40pm kickoff), while Blues will play the Crusaders in Christchurch (4pm kickoff).<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes will host the Brumbies at 6pm Friday.<\/p>\n

See how tonight’s match unfolded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs celebrate a try in a big win over the Blues. Photo: Blake Armstrong\/Photosport All Blacks loose forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-452563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}