All Blacks v Italy

[gt12]

I officially love ALB.

And I didn't think he should start for the Chiefs. Ha.

[Stargazer]

Crockett with the try: 35-5. It's almost HT.

[Stargazer]

It's hard to judge players' performance when the opponent is so weak.
Have been looking at the newbies in particular, and Barrett has been really good; Dmac is yet to convince me. Some good catches and bad passes.

[Tordah]

Italy are rubbish in everything. Good refereeing so far, enjoyable to watch. Like the scrums,Italy going backwards

[kiwiinmelb]

@dK said in v Italy:

Live stream anyone?

http://cricfree.sc/watch/live/italy-vs-new-zealand-live-streaming

[dK]

@kiwiinmelb listening to the rugby. A trip down memory lane. All the streams are asking for my credit card so not keen

[Stargazer]

Good to see Cruden score all conversions, although I must admit that all were from very easy to easy angles.

[No Quarter]

ABs 35-3 at the break and restoring some semblance of normality into the world...

[Stargazer]

Try Luatua, but that was all thanks to Taylor. Man, that was good!

[No Quarter]

Love the way Owens played advantage there, a lot of other refs would have blown it up.

Great try, the chips to the wing from Cruds have worked well, keeping Italy guessing.

[gt12]

Seriously, WTF is up with Naholo?

I've rarely seen anything from him except mistakes. He occasionally makes breaks, but he's not even as good as Sivi and we moved past him years ago.

[Stargazer]

Ioane has replaced Dagg. Dagg was way better than Dmac and Naholo, but I guess with this score they just want to test the newbies as much as possible.

[No Quarter]

Crockett takes a leaf out of ALBs book and puts Fekitoa away. Lovely stuff.

[Stargazer]

Fekitoa in again after some great work from Crockett.

Sopoaga & Todd coming on; Tuipulotu and Cruden going off.

[Kruse]

Dagg off, Cruden off... the 15 on the field right now has got to be one of the least-experienced ever?

[Stargazer]

ALB is having a really good game, so is Crockett.

[Stargazer]

E Dixon try

[No Quarter]

Why are shoulder charges a penalty only now? That's two that Owens has played advantage for, though I haven't seen any replays.

[Stargazer]

Coltman making his debut. Great game from Taylor.

[Kruse]

How do they fuck up awarding a conversion which bounces off the post? Surely that's one of the easiest to confirm... you see/hear it hit the post, then it hits the ground in the in-goal. Physics suggests... flags up.