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...

Has Blueben Dove just been shovelling it out constantly or is it just me?

Would have liked to seen Savea given a rest and have Barrett as the captain.

Sititi underwhelming.

Pretty lousy half of rugby. Dumb Sititi ASAP. He's been absolute shit for two seasons.

going to have to take the ref out of this one, we need to keep it a bit tighter they are offside a lot

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

Pretty lousy half of rugby. Dumb Sititi ASAP. He's been absolute shit for two seasons.

Taylor proving again he’s done. Ardie as well. Both absolutely poor.

We're lucky Jacobson is on the field. Sititi and Savea have been trash when they've not been anonymous. McKenzie has decided to have another shit occasion.

Ruck speed is so slow, not enough close carries and no chip kicks keeping their offside defence honest.

Pretty shit half of rugby, not assisted by the cheese eating surrender monkey with the whistle.

Get a heap of the bench on

I wish we would employ a rush defence

Play around the fringes more

Good contest

Literally every expert I have listened to over the last few weeks have been going on about our loose forward depth. Not sure what they have been watching but we have very few test quality loosies.

In a way this should give rennie plenty to think about going forward

Just for my steam back. Are we trying to punch up the middle like we did vs the Italians, or pushing it wide without earning the right?

If they are as ruthless as they make out they are, they would pull the trigger at half time on a few players

At least we're finding out here about these things, and yeah, nice to see a contest.

@Old-Alleynians said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

@Jnr

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

It happens sometimes.

Jordan has turned it over 3 times. Does that mean he's hopeless?

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

@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

Not one carry over the advantage line for Ardie yep he has been shit along with Sititi.

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

Has Blueben Dove just been shovelling it out constantly or is it just me?

He's been average. Nothing spectacular, nothing poor. Happy with that on only his second start.

Sititi looks unfit, Darry running, tackling, passing for 3 players

The mix of our pack is all off. Get Taylor out of there, start Tosi, get the reliable Lakai back in for either Sititi or Savea.

@W32 said in 2026 Nations Championship: All Blacks v Italy:

Come on Italy! Outstanding

I thought you were here for Bones. You're so loose with your affections...

@Kirwan Don't have the loose forwards to take them on.

Put Vaai at 6 and bring on Segner for Savea.