Six Nations 2018

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I do resurrect this when things go well, so it’s only fair I do so when we have very dark days indeed …..

Well done Italy. There are very few undeserved wins in the game of rugby, and this wasn’t one of them. After being physically battered for 36 (?) games in a row, humiliated at times and with so many people calling for their expulsion, written off and disrespected ….. they still turned up with passion, guts and pride. Played a full 80 minutes of rugby and deserved the win with no big controversy or scandal. Well done guys and to all your fans who have stuck by you in hard times

Now, Wales, though. A different story. Utterly disrespectful and arrogant from the start. 7 changes and stuffing AWJ back in just to get the 150th cap at home to sell more overpriced tickets. The whole build up was about Biggar and AWJ, not our opponents. The players coming onto the pitch with their children, ffs. Where is the Eye of the Tiger? Was this really a testimonial game! No wonder we were cold and undercooked at the start.

Right from the whistle, we were chucking it wide. From the third minute we were turning down three points and kicking to corners. Who the flock do we think we are? Arrogant.

Offside ridiculously often. Lost the collision battle. No shape or attacking strategy. Over 15 dropped balls. Clearly no system or strategy in place to win that game ….. or the players didn’t believe in it.

Something has gone seriously wrong within our team culture for this to happen like it did. That culture is shaped by the WRU and the team management, and they should be accountable. if that culture is not shaped by them, they should be still accountable as it must be shaped by them.

This cannot be swept under the carpet. That was an inept, toothless and embarrassing performance at home on our stadium In front of our fans.

Italy did what they needed to do, stuck to their principles and beliefs and played for each other …….. but I have to say I think many many teams would have come away with a win against us today.

[palmerq]

I'm not an expert on Rugby but I do follow the main tournaments (since the 90s) ... The Italians looked fairly good, some impressive Welsh defending saved them a try or two in the first half .. but that was surely a lot of penalties to give away, wales had two converted tries but the wops took the lead after their fifth successful penalty:S,that's some indiscipline there.. no offense to the Welsh but I'm really happy to see Italy win a game again at last and away too, I was at Murrayfield when the Italians went 21-0 up v Scotland and ended up winning a fairly close game, it looked like the Italians were on the way to being a pretty good team but they fell off pretty bad in the following years.

I see the Italian under 20 or whatever rugger uses beat england(by some weird 6-0 or similar score) and Scotland too recently, maybe they're on a pretty good path..

Haven't seen France v England yet but it's nice to see France win that and the grand slam, I hope France win the next world cup, I've always liked the frogs in rugby and they have a pretty good and fun team right now.

[Master]

Primo will be very happy.

[Primo Carnera]

Very happy with this and it was well deserved too. Perhaps it’ll shut the “kick them out “ merchants up for a bit.
To be clear, I’m all for the bottom team having to win a play off against the winners of the tier 2 championship.
But people have to understand that the best 2 teams in tier 2 are Spain and Georgia, and they will not be anywhere near as competitive as Italy.
As for the idea of replacing Italy with South Africa, that would just be a ridiculous, selfish , arrogant , look after number 1 plan.

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Are you Italian, Primo?

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[Master]

Are you Italian, Primo?

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You pay no notice to others.

[Primo Carnera]

Are you Italian, Primo?

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Yes mate. Born in the U.K. but both parents are Italian. Dual nationality, I’ve got a British and Italian passports and I AM ITALIAN. I’ve always felt Italian, no disrespect to the U.K. because I’m very fortunate to live here.