Un taxi per il Signor Gatland, per favore.

First time anyone has run with vigour all match for Wales there with that Aaron Wainwright carry and sure enough, gains a penalty as a result.

The Josh Adams YC remains a YC.

Wales three scores down with 13 minutes to play. Surely they need to chance their arm a bit?

Try to Wales awarded, but they are checking it.

Double movement?

@sparky said in Italy v Wales:

Double movement?

Yup clear double movement.

No try.

@sparky said in Italy v Wales:

I've muted and listening to the Radio 5 Live commentary.

Likewise

Far better

Wales try.

Wainwright scores.

All the energy with Wales now.

Wainwright scores. He's made a huge difference since coming on.

Ten minutes to go. Can they achieve a crazy comeback?

Elvis ‘68 Special

Come on Wales

Kick misses. Italy 19 Wales 8.

Ten minutes to go.

Dumb from Faletau.

That’s it

Still on. 22-15, Italy down to 13.

Penalty Try to Wales.

22-15.

WTF

Italy only have 13 players.

One minute to go.

Italy kick it long. Wales need to go 90 metres in the wet.

30 seconds left. Great excitement at the end of an AWFUL game.

Italian defence solid.

Into the Red.

Penalty to Italy. All over.

Italy almost blew that

Wales get a losing bonus point.

Game over, Italy win 22-15.

Wales found Italy's weakness, the rolling maul. Sadly for them, they discovered it too late.

Italy deserved that. Wales offered so little for 70 minutes. They didn't get out of first gear for most of that match.

Winnett, Llewelyn, Anscombe, Bevan

That’s all on Gatland

Bin both him and Howley

Georgia are ahead of Wales on the IRB rankings.

Equally down to Georgia's form than Wales being shit to be fair.

@Victor-Meldrew said in Italy v Wales:

Georgia are ahead of Wales on the IRB rankings.

Equally down to Georgia's form than Wales being shit to be fair.

And playing the powerhouse that is the Netherlands

Still

Undefeated at home

Triple Crown still on

Woeful performance from Wales.
Gats has talked about overplaying all week & yet when we had a 5 metre lineout in the 1st half we tried a ridiculous front peel move with the hooker.
There's some sub standard players in this Welsh squad but they all look like they've been coached by an amateur coaching team.
Getting Gats back was never going to end well but I never imagined it would be this bad.

@pooler-fan said in Italy v Wales:

Woeful performance from Wales.
Gats has talked about overplaying all week & yet when we had a 5 metre lineout in the 1st half we tried a ridiculous front peel move with the hooker.
There's some sub standard players in this Welsh squad but they all look like they've been coached by an amateur coaching team.
Getting Gats back was never going to end well but I never imagined it would be this bad.

With how badly the Italians defended the rolling maul, that set move from the top in the first half cost them the game.

Just watched the highlights. Skipped through most of it... until the end, when it suddenly became interesting.
Skipping through "highlights" - a sad indictment on the game. But even doing that - I could tell the commentary was horrible. Just getting cut-off snippets of obviously inane statements... should be interesting, but... nope.

Fair points, Gatland is well past his best before and hasn't evolved. I'm worried we've got the same in NZ with the professor back involved in ABs. 'we've got to win it using our attacking DNA' Yes it worked for women's rugby but that is a complete different game than men's ATM