@Mr-Fish said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@sparky said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

The quality of this game versus the Super final is night and day.

It's an entirely different game when you have a northern hemisphere ref looking to slow it down as much as he can.

And no punch up front. De Groot, Taylor and Lomax etc aren’t the types to bend a defensive line if we want to play optimistic rugby.

Lomax has been carrying very well tonight.

So has Taylor

Our front five have been okay. The issue is the back row.

Savea can't even carry and get to ground.

@antipodean Went in too high.

@Bones said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

These fucking ITV commentators are atrocious

The woman so gleeful whenever Italy are on top, all of a sudden she's at a funeral when the ABs score.

The Irish-sounding bint?
I don't know which commentors I have, but the descriptions of "atrocious" and this silly cow - suggest to me it's ITV.

Taukieaho to start, Aumua bench

Jacobson working for 3...

Italy have actually been very good, and Sititi and Ardie have both been poor, which has kept them in the game. Expecting our pack to blow them away in the 2nd 40

This team is playing like they’ve just met each other.

Horrible watch from the stands.

@Chris said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Mr-Fish said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@sparky said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

The quality of this game versus the Super final is night and day.

It's an entirely different game when you have a northern hemisphere ref looking to slow it down as much as he can.

And no punch up front. De Groot, Taylor and Lomax etc aren’t the types to bend a defensive line if we want to play optimistic rugby.

Lomax has been carrying very well tonight.

So has Taylor

He has but he's been penalised two or three times so I'm not giving him credit for anything else either.

@Kruse said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Bones said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

These fucking ITV commentators are atrocious

The woman so gleeful whenever Italy are on top, all of a sudden she's at a funeral when the ABs score.

The Irish-sounding bint?
I don't know which commentors I have, but the descriptions of "atrocious" and this silly cow - suggest to me it's ITV.

Definitely English

@sparky said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Our front five have been okay. The issue is the back row.

Yep 100%

Who are the ITV commentators for this match?

@Mr-Fish said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Chris said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Mr-Fish said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@sparky said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Canes4life said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

The quality of this game versus the Super final is night and day.

It's an entirely different game when you have a northern hemisphere ref looking to slow it down as much as he can.

And no punch up front. De Groot, Taylor and Lomax etc aren’t the types to bend a defensive line if we want to play optimistic rugby.

Lomax has been carrying very well tonight.

So has Taylor

He has but he's been penalised two or three times so I'm not giving him credit for anything else either.

Lineout is interesting...

@Bones said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Kruse said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Bones said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

These fucking ITV commentators are atrocious

The woman so gleeful whenever Italy are on top, all of a sudden she's at a funeral when the ABs score.

The Irish-sounding bint?
I don't know which commentors I have, but the descriptions of "atrocious" and this silly cow - suggest to me it's ITV.

Definitely English

Maybe I've been away too long - they all sound the same.

Who threw that shocker

Glad I didn't get tickets for this match.

Just need a chip / grubber or Roigard break in close to shorten up the Italian D line.

Interesting long ball from Jordan.

You can't play Sititi and Savea in the same backrow. And neither screams All Blacks quality to me.

Bungled. That was a real loopy one.

@MacDazzler said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Who are the ITV commentators for this match?

Nick Heath and former England player Nolli Waterman.

This Frog luuuuuuurrrrvesss us

The aussie game is going to be way better than this shite

@sparky Hopefully some new loose forwards breakthrough sooner rather than later.

@Mr-Fish said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@MacDazzler said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Who are the ITV commentators for this match?

Nick Heath and former England player Nolli Waterman.

They are getting big hard ons for the Italians.

Italian LH had quite the angle there

Doesn't sound like I'm missing much, but I'm in Fiji and the resort doesn't have the channel. And my free live streams aren't working. Sky and VPN neither

Can we make sure we don’t play in Wellington for very very long time. This place is cursed

The fuck is with this French ref? Italian loosehead drives in right in front of him, 7 then changes bind and swims up to join the front row. Penalises Black.

@Landers92 said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Can we make sure we don’t play in Wellington for very very long time. This place is cursed

Unless you're the Hurricanes.

@sparky said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Landers92 said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Can we make sure we don’t play in Wellington for very very long time. This place is cursed

Unless you're the Hurricanes.

Which we aren’t…

@antipodean

It would have helped if Wallace decided to not detach - the next shove with him looking to break did for us.

Too much Fifa influence there

@Landers92 said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Can we make sure we don’t play in Wellington for very very long time. This place is cursed

We say this every year and they still get at least one a year.

Jacobson has been doing a great imitation of DP last week and so far this week

Jacobson’s made of concrete lads

@Bones said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Jacobson has been doing a great imitation of DP last week and so far this week

Poor bugger has to do all the work in the loose not much help from the other 2.

Where is the Captain

Italian offside and in from the side and no call lol