Italy vs All Blacks

[Bovidae]

SBW and Squire are injured so are coming home. Whitelock gets an early summer break while Todd returns to Japan.

[Machpants]

Who gives a fuck about this game now?

Should be B team with experience on the bench, Dalton to start at 6.

[taniwharugby]

@machpants only 4 fit loosies left on tour so probability of that is high

[Tim]

So what's the pack going to be?

Tuungafasi
Harris
Laulala
Tuipulotu
Retallick
Papalii
Savea
Read

Tu'inukuafe
Coles
Franks
Barrett
Fifita

[MN5]

@tim said in Italy vs All Blacks:

So what's the pack going to be?

Tuungafasi
Harris
Laulala
Tuipulotu
Retallick
Papalii
Savea
Read

Tu'inukuafe
Coles
Franks
Barrett
Fifita

Provided someone does the donkey work it would be great to see Fifita get a run and get a hat trick.

[Nepia]

@tim Why give Harris a start - just let Coles play as long as he can.

[allblacksfan72]

@tim Angus tauvao must be either starting or on bench I would think

[Tim]

@allblacksfan72 Ah, had forgotten he was on tour.

[Tim]

@nepia Thought they might still be giving him limited minutes.

[Machpants]

Each three minutes vs Italy like one normal minute, 1/2 an Irish minute, so no probs Coles doing the entire 80!

[Bovidae]

I'm expecting to see a forward pack of:

Tuungafasi
Coles
Laulala
Tuipulotu
Retallick
Fifita
Papalii
Read

Reserves: Harris, Tu'inukuafe, Ta'avao, S Barrett, Savea

Hopefully an ALB-Goodhue midfield.

[Steven Harris]

For all the commotion that was made about releasing Matt Todd from his Japanese contract,he hardly played 20 minutes in the 2 most important tests of the tour..what was the point..?

[taniwharugby]

has Fifita played 8, although could put Savea at 8....

I know it'd be raw, but put Read on the bench and start Papali'i, Savea and Fifita

whats the worst that could happen

[MN5]

@taniwharugby said in Italy vs All Blacks:

has Fifita played 8, although could put Savea at 8....

I know it'd be raw, but put Read on the bench and start Papali'i, Savea and Fifita

whats the worst that could happen

A lot of ball running and no one doing any work ?

[taniwharugby]

@mn5 we'll be scoring soooooo many tries to make up for the last 2 weeks, we wont need to!

[Kirwan]

@mn5 said in Italy vs All Blacks:

@taniwharugby said in Italy vs All Blacks:

has Fifita played 8, although could put Savea at 8....

I know it'd be raw, but put Read on the bench and start Papali'i, Savea and Fifita

whats the worst that could happen

A lot of ball running and no one doing any work ?

Dalton would have to have one of his 25 tackle games with that combo.

[MN5]

@taniwharugby said in Italy vs All Blacks:

@mn5 we'll be scoring soooooo many tries to make up for the last 2 weeks, we wont need to!

It'd be like Jonah rugby.....Fifita could bump off all 15 on the way to the line.

[taniwharugby]

@kirwan again, won't matter, we will be running in soooo many tries, we wont need to make any tackles.

[Snowy]

@tim said in Italy vs All Blacks:

So what's the pack going to be?

They are hardly a pack anymore. More of a whimper.

Yes still angry. Well sulky.

[Donsteppa]

@taniwharugby said in Italy vs All Blacks:

has Fifita played 8, although could put Savea at 8....

I know it'd be raw, but put Read on the bench and start Papali'i, Savea and Fifita

whats the worst that could happen

Reuben Thorne is awarded a retrospective knighthood?