@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

How much further from the side are the Italians allowed to come in at our rucks

@Chris

We have 4 wingers though.

@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.

Grooter just carried pretty bloody well then.

He is quality link guy as well. Throws some really nice passes.

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

@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.

Are you sure? Ardie has most tackles and 2nd most carries.

Sititi has second most tackles.

Jacobson has 2 tackles

Lacking Test intensity.

Feels more like an exhibition game performance.

Why did Vaai go blind there… smfh

Vaai has been shit. Darry is our form lock.

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

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

Certainly can't. Way too similar.

Savea has been fucking ordinary eh. Would do well to not go off his feet before the tackle, literally every carry

Darry the pick of the ABs in the first half. De Groot good too.

Not much else to celebrate.

Savea looks cooked. Shouldn't have played today.

big improvement needed before going to SA

Get the underperforming ones off at half time. Perfect time for these coaches to be ruthless and prove a point. Sititi the first that comes to mind

@Jnr

Are you counting his carry where he was held up ? Stats...