All Blacks v Italy

[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.

[Stargazer]

Yes! Try Italy! Tommaso Boni.

[Stargazer]

All Blacks defence had fallen asleep.

[Crash]

Has Luatua done enough?

[No Quarter]

Rieko! Try on debut, tidy finish.

[Stargazer]

Try Ioane on debut. Was about the second time he touched the ball since he came on. Good work Sops.

[No Quarter]

Sopoaga has a great step, using it well today.

[Stargazer]

Awesome pass from ALB, Naholo scores.

[No Quarter]

Fuck I love ALB.

[Crash]

Of the starters ALB, Dagg. Crockett and Naholo have impressed. Sopoaga has added real spark since coming on, and for mine has put himself in consideration to start next week. Todd has shown there is huge value in having a player running excellent support lines. And I have like what I have seen of Rieko in Black.
Possibly still a bit early for DMac, and not sold on Dixon at this level.