Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:21 pm
NZ 21-3, starting to feel quietly confident here
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RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
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Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:22 pm
Oh jesus are Italy going to turn up at any point?
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:23 pm
I was looking forward to this but it's over already.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:23 pm
ohferfucksake
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:23 pm
It's all part of the game plan!
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:24 pm
The betting line was -28 for this game. Will be interesting to see what the margin ends up.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:24 pm
No wonder at all, TV off for me nowsturginho wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:21 pmWe've had such genius comments from the likes of Bortolami and Mirco Bergamasco saying that we shouldn't even bother and put all our efforts into beating France instead. With such confidence is it any wonder we always fall to pieces?TheNatalShark wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:18 pm Snekky try there, almost hilarious how Italy just falls apart Vs NZ. Like Wales Vs Aus last decade and Scotland Vs SA
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:24 pm
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:25 pm
Woeful defence. Have Italy thrown in the towel already?
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:27 pm
Carley blew the blacks once for not releasing since then it's a free for all.
I am done with this game. it's boring.
I am done with this game. it's boring.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:28 pm
Have Italy played a competitive game at a world cup against a tier 1 game since Scotland ‘07?
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:29 pm
Italy 
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:29 pm
Not sure what is happening with Italy here, falling off tackles like it's the latest French fashion
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:29 pm
35-3 after 28 mins 
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:33 pm
Well its not a total surpise
Italy didn't look great in their last game...and there is a bit of unjustified doomerism about the ABs right now.
Italy didn't look great in their last game...and there is a bit of unjustified doomerism about the ABs right now.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:34 pm
Highlight of this game has been the legends in the crowd, and my fav AB Conrad Smith 
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:34 pm
This is an utter shambles from Italy.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:34 pm
But yeah Italy look totally disinterested in tackling now
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:35 pm
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:40 pm
ABs going well then.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:42 pm
Italy just have an amazing ability to make the most wrong decision at the most wrong time.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:44 pm
Good to see the kiwis playing well, but even they must be wondering why it's so easy. Italy are humiliating themselves and embarrassing the rest of the 6N, they are absolutely dogshit. Appalling.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:45 pm
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:45 pm
Carley isn't exactly helping Italy either
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:46 pm
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:46 pm
Pen count is going to resemble the score soon.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:48 pm
In a year where England, Australia, Wales and Argentina have played the way they have, it was going to take something special to be crowned ‘the most humiliating half of rugby from a tier 1 nation’, and fair play the Italians have smashed it out the park here
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:48 pm
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:50 pm
With tongue so far in cheek it hurts....clearly with all the Italian pressure they should be getting penalties.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:50 pm
Should the ABs clear the bench now, or risk one of their key players getting Dupont-ed?
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:52 pm
ABs being ruthless here, feeling sorry for the Italians. This could turn into a complete mare in the second half, Italy need to make their tackles and cut down the space the ABs are achieving.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:53 pm
No no, almost all of it is down to the superiority of New Zealand, but Carley is letting NZ pick up in the ruck and telling Italy to let it go. Twice now NZ have taken players out way beyond the ruck without sanction - it would make no difference, but Carley is making mistakes too.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:53 pm
There is, but they are never shite. Italy tackling is appalling but NZ are looking very sharp.
I really, really hope Italy turn it around a bit
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:54 pm
Is what you spent the first half shouting at the cardboard cut out replicas of rugby players missing 22 tackles in one half, I assume?
Make no mistake, this is one of the all time worst performances by a supposedly half decent team in a world cup. Just world class bed shitting and couldn't-give-a-fuck-ism. And as an England fan I've seen a few.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:54 pm
I don't feel sorry for them, clearly they needed taking down a peg or two (or 10)
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:54 pm
I agree, even his language to the players isn’t particularly even handedTichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:53 pmNo no, almost all of it is down to the superiority of New Zealand, but Carley is letting NZ pick up in the ruck and telling Italy to let it go. Twice now NZ have taken players out way beyond the ruck without sanction - it would make no difference, but Carley is making mistakes too.
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:55 pm
I bet Ymx is wetting himself!!!
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:55 pm
Ticht is right - one of the NZ pens came just after Varney had been manhandled miles off the ball
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:56 pm
Re: RWCR3 New Zealand vs Italy - Fri 29th - 20.00 BST
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:59 pm
Have the Kiwi fans finally stopped pretending there was ever the slightest chance they could have lost this?