6N 2022 : Wales v Italy

[Paekakboyz]

Holy shit! Just caught this and that last try. First start for the fullback?! That run was fire and perfect set up and pass.
Awesome emotion and Wales showed real class with the result. They'll be hurting hard though.

[MN5]

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@nzzp said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Beat us by playing rugby

As it should be

Like Japan v South Africa at RWC15. legendary, because they played, and created.

Tough day @MiketheSnow , but good for rugby in the long run. lord knows we've been waiting for Italy to start consistently putting a good team out

Absolutely

Hopefully it will put the idea of SA replacing Italy to bed

7 nations or fuck off

I still reckon the 6 nations needs a promotion/relegation type scenario to give Georgia and Romania something to shoot for.

Both those teams are capable of knocking over the big boys on their day.

[Higgins]

@mn5 said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@nzzp said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Beat us by playing rugby

As it should be

Like Japan v South Africa at RWC15. legendary, because they played, and created.

Tough day @MiketheSnow , but good for rugby in the long run. lord knows we've been waiting for Italy to start consistently putting a good team out

Absolutely

Hopefully it will put the idea of SA replacing Italy to bed

7 nations or fuck off

I still reckon the 6 nations needs a promotion/relegation type scenario to give Georgia and Romania something to shoot for.

Both those teams are capable of knocking over the big boys Scotland and/or Italy on their day.

Fixed.

[MN5]

@higgins said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mn5 said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@nzzp said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Beat us by playing rugby

As it should be

Like Japan v South Africa at RWC15. legendary, because they played, and created.

Tough day @MiketheSnow , but good for rugby in the long run. lord knows we've been waiting for Italy to start consistently putting a good team out

Absolutely

Hopefully it will put the idea of SA replacing Italy to bed

7 nations or fuck off

I still reckon the 6 nations needs a promotion/relegation type scenario to give Georgia and Romania something to shoot for.

Both those teams are capable of knocking over the big boys Scotland and/or Italy on their day.

Fixed.

Check the table pal, Wales languishing behind the mighty Scots yet again.

[Higgins]

@mn5 Oh shit, I thought they had got relegated a few years back.

[MiketheSnow]

@mn5 said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@nzzp said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Beat us by playing rugby

As it should be

Like Japan v South Africa at RWC15. legendary, because they played, and created.

Tough day @MiketheSnow , but good for rugby in the long run. lord knows we've been waiting for Italy to start consistently putting a good team out

Absolutely

Hopefully it will put the idea of SA replacing Italy to bed

7 nations or fuck off

I still reckon the 6 nations needs a promotion/relegation type scenario to give Georgia and Romania something to shoot for.

Both those teams are capable of knocking over the big boys on their day.

Give it a rest

Italy are streets ahead of the best of the rest

[MN5]

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mn5 said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@nzzp said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Beat us by playing rugby

As it should be

Like Japan v South Africa at RWC15. legendary, because they played, and created.

Tough day @MiketheSnow , but good for rugby in the long run. lord knows we've been waiting for Italy to start consistently putting a good team out

Absolutely

Hopefully it will put the idea of SA replacing Italy to bed

7 nations or fuck off

I still reckon the 6 nations needs a promotion/relegation type scenario to give Georgia and Romania something to shoot for.

Both those teams are capable of knocking over the big boys on their day.

Give it a rest

Italy are streets ahead of the best of the rest

Narrow empty streets maybe…..look, just cos they beat you guys doesn’t make them all that. They used to beat the Scots too

Also Georgia are ranked above them

[NTA]

MOTM was the Italian hooker. Crucial turnovers, good set piece.

Italy would be further ahead if Ioane had drawn and passed instead of trying to beat them man on the outside.

[NTA]

https://twitter.com/ek_rugby1/status/1505241458047352834?t=XlkAta3Sf1c2QoMno1kj1A&s=19

[MiketheSnow]

@nta said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

https://twitter.com/ek_rugby1/status/1505241458047352834?t=XlkAta3Sf1c2QoMno1kj1A&s=19

I would have gone with this, in slo-mo

[Bones]

@nta hah, the ref's face! He looked like he'd just reffed his last match.

[MiketheSnow]

[Hooroo]

@mikethesnow good attitude in defeat mate.

Was happy to watch the joy in all those players faces.

No such thing as a dead rubber in rugby (3rd v 4th in WC excepted)

[Machpants]

Interesting bit, he certainly looked like a teen but, man, brave out there

The man who set up the try and makes it so delightful is fullback Ange Capuozzo. He's 22, but looks 13. He's also tiny, weighing just 68kg. The last time the All Blacks fielded a player that small was in 1964, when Derek Arnold played against France..

[MN5]

@machpants said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Interesting bit, he certainly looked like a teen but, man, brave out there

The man who set up the try and makes it so delightful is fullback Ange Capuozzo. He's 22, but looks 13. He's also tiny, weighing just 68kg. The last time the All Blacks fielded a player that small was in 1964, when Derek Arnold played against France..

I always thought Arfa Stone was the lightest All Black

[Machpants]

@mn5 said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@machpants said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

Interesting bit, he certainly looked like a teen but, man, brave out there

The man who set up the try and makes it so delightful is fullback Ange Capuozzo. He's 22, but looks 13. He's also tiny, weighing just 68kg. The last time the All Blacks fielded a player that small was in 1964, when Derek Arnold played against France..

I always thought Arfa Stone was the lightest All Black

https://media.giphy.com/media/1Zbeweu52ZaQE/giphy.gif

[Kirwan]

@hooroo said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@mikethesnow good attitude in defeat mate.

Was happy to watch the joy in all those players faces.

No such thing as a dead rubber in rugby (3rd v 4th in WC excepted)

That was a cracking try to finish the game as well. Great to see what it meant to the players too.

[MN5]

@mikethesnow said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

@nta said in 6N 2022 : Wales v Italy:

https://twitter.com/ek_rugby1/status/1505241458047352834?t=XlkAta3Sf1c2QoMno1kj1A&s=19

I would have gone with this, in slo-mo

I really like what you did there

[Nevorian]

Looks like he is winning off the field also

[cgrant]

His counter attack was cullenesque ... Body swerve and deadly acceleration.