6N 2016: Wales vs Italy - Super Saturday

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Here we go again. Big win for Wales please, and then back to the drawing board.

Saturday, 19 March
Wales v Italy (Principality Stadium, 14:30 GMT)

Wales

Liam Williams; George North, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, Hallam Amos; Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb; Rob Evans, Scott Baldwin, Samson Lee; Bradley Davies, Luke Charteris; Dan Lydiate (C), Justin Tipuric, Taulupe Faletau.

Replacements: Ken Owens, Gethin Jenkins, Tomas Francis*, Jake Ball, Ross Moriarty, Gareth Davies, Rhys Priestland, Gareth Anscombe.

*Francis is pending disciplinary action, Jarvis is on standby.


Italy

TBC

Yey!!!

Wow...you want to talk about 16th men....that was a travesty!

Oh dear - would it be perceived as anti-welsh to point out the huge officiating error resulting in that first try?  I've predicted a big win for Wales so good for me but that was woeful from the officials.

This will be a long afternoon for Italy. I wish the referees would police the offside line though. Welsh players ahead of the kicker before the try.

Wales miles offside there...should have been a penalty to Italy.

You know it's blatant when Jiffy calls it straight away

Taulupe to 7 for a bit?

Wow! 10-0 already with only 15 minutes gone. Looks like another long day for Italy.

Yeah, that was fairly blatantly offside. Fantastic to see Rhys Webb back and scoring for Wales though!

And a yellow card for Palazzini.

Lovely.

Not sure what the commentators are on about. That's a blatant yellow!

Yes it was very unfair on Italy to be honest.

That was yellow was right, Webb was entitled to take it quickly

Italians not happy with Poite.

13-0 after 21 mins.

Wales should be aiming for an average of a point a minute at this rate.

Jonathan Davies, 'speechless'. Can only dream of it.

Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

That Italian 15 seems a canny player.

If was can nick another try now I think Italy might chuck in the towel.

Kinda depressing that our under 20s and under 18s have better handling skills than our seniors

70% possession for Wales so far.

Stupid pen

True Raven wrote:Kinda depressing that our under 20s and under 18s have better handling skills than our seniors

Agree

Jonathan Davies has been atrocious so far.

JDizzle wrote:Jonathan Davies has been atrocious so far.

He's throwing those stupid floating balls to the touch line, hes almost cost us dearly.

Pretty good by Italy. Wakes only manage 3 points for the sin bin.

And then Italy man sausage it up as soon as the 9 comes back on. The Welsh 10 scores.

20-0 with 30 minutes gone.

Forcing it too much. Just need to tighten up and they'll batter them.

Shifty wrote:Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.  
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

Agree yellow was correct for tackling when offside - the only question mark I'd have was where the quick tap was taken from.  I thought it had to be from the base of the scrum which I always took to be from behind the no. 8 - but I could be wrong.

Yes!!!!! Well done lads

HammerofThunor wrote:Forcing it too much. Just need to tighten up and they'll batter them.

Agreed

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.  
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

Agree yellow was correct for tackling when offside - the only question mark I'd have was where the quick tap was taken from.  I thought it had to be from the base of the scrum which I always took to be from behind the no. 8 - but I could be wrong.

The mark is in front of the referee's feet

So Gats was wrong. Amos ain't a FB

I'm glad points difference makes absolutely no difference this year!

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.  
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

Agree yellow was correct for tackling when offside - the only question mark I'd have was where the quick tap was taken from.  I thought it had to be from the base of the scrum which I always took to be from behind the no. 8 - but I could be wrong.

I thought he might have been slightly in front, and maybe it is just my Welsh bias, but I think you are being too nit picky if you are calling him up on that.

That's a nice little move. Good try. This is going to be a massacre.

No AWJ and maybe Tips next week v sceearlets.

Breadvan wrote:No AWJ and maybe Tips next week v sceearlets.

I know. Huge blow

and match over after half an hour.

27-0.

Embarrassing for Italy.

Shifty wrote:

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.  
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

Agree yellow was correct for tackling when offside - the only question mark I'd have was where the quick tap was taken from.  I thought it had to be from the base of the scrum which I always took to be from behind the no. 8 - but I could be wrong.

The mark is in front of the referee's feet

I thought it was different for scrum pens but it suits me as I predicted a big win ...

Breadvan wrote:No AWJ and maybe Tips next week v sceearlets.

Don't stress the Ospreys season was shagged up ages ago anyway.

I know you can't move, but I'll ping you anyway. Seems a bit strange.

What language was Lee using whilst trapped on the bottom of a ruck, screaming like a baby.

RiscaGame wrote:I know you can't move, but I'll ping you anyway. Seems a bit strange.

their going to need a lot of help now from the ref, it's fun to watch but hammering Italy out of sight won't help the competition, or help Wales, as all the failings of Wales this season will be forgotten and forgiven.

Again

You know... If Wales win this game, we SHOULD finish second, which technically means we've done better than last year??? As we only lost one game but finished third.

Shifty wrote:

RiscaGame wrote:I know you can't move, but I'll ping you anyway. Seems a bit strange.

their going to need a lot of help now from the ref, it's fun to watch but hammering Italy out of sight won't help the competition, or help Wales, as all the failings of Wales this season will be forgotten and forgiven.

No chance are the failings going to be forgiven or forgotten.

Agree. Whatever happens with this Welsh inevitable win and the second place, we've been poor in most games other than for brief spells.

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.  
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

Agree yellow was correct for tackling when offside - the only question mark I'd have was where the quick tap was taken from.  I thought it had to be from the base of the scrum which I always took to be from behind the no. 8 - but I could be wrong.

The mark is in front of the referee's feet

I thought it was different for scrum pens but it suits me as I predicted a big win ...

Interesting that MW questioned the position it was taken too at half time ... maybe my understanding is correct after all.  Don't get me wrong I want a big win for my prediction but I'd like to know if my understanding of the laws is correct.

Heaf wrote:

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:

Heaf wrote:

Shifty wrote:Poite hasn't done much wrong, the issue with the try was with the lineman not calling the offside.  
The yellow was right, the scrum half was off side.

Agree yellow was correct for tackling when offside - the only question mark I'd have was where the quick tap was taken from.  I thought it had to be from the base of the scrum which I always took to be from behind the no. 8 - but I could be wrong.

The mark is in front of the referee's feet

I thought it was different for scrum pens but it suits me as I predicted a big win ...

Interesting that MW questioned the position it was taken too at half time ... maybe my understanding is correct after all.  Don't get me wrong I want a big win for my prediction but I'd like to know if my understanding of the laws is correct.

to the best of my knowledge the mark is in front of the referees feet. You cant take a quick tap if a scrum of pile of bodies are in the way.

Still not convinced - you often see the SH throw the ball to the 8 when the ref blows when a scrum collapses.  Why else would they do that?

And why would MW have made that comment?

Great to see George North back to form after his concussions last year