RWC: Italy v Namibia (Pool A)

[Duluth]

Italy:
15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Mattia Bellini, 13 Tommaso Benvenuti, 12 Luca Morisi, 11 Edoardo Padovani, 10 Tommaso Allan, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Sergio Parisse (captain), 7 Maxime Mbanda, 6 Braam Steyn, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Alessandro Zanni, 3 Tiziano Pasquali, 2 Luca Bigi, 1 Nicola Quaglio
Reserves: 16 Oliviero Fabiani, 17 Simone Ferrari, 18 Marco Riccioni, 19 Dean Budd, 20 Jake Polledri, 21 Guglielmo Palazzani, 22 Carlo Canna, 23 Matteo Minozzi

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Namibia:
15 Johan Tromp, 14 Chad Plato, 13 Justin Newman, 12 Darryl De La Harpe, 11 Jacobus Greyling, 10 Cliven Loubser, 9 Damian Stevens, 8 Janco Venter, 7 Wian Conradie, 6 Rohan Kitshoff, 5 Tjiuee Uanivi (captain), 4 PJ van Lill, 3 Johannes Coetzee, 2 Torsten van Jaarsveld, 1 André Rademeyer.
Reserves: 16 Louis van der Westhuizen, 17 AJ De Klerk, 18 Nelius Theron, 19 Johan Retief, 20 Max Katjijeko, 21 Eugene Jantjies, 22 Helarius Axasman Kisting, 23 Lesley Klim

[Duluth]

Great try Namibia!

[rustycruiser]

Cracker of a try!

[nzzp]

@Duluth said in RWC: Italy vs Namibia (Pool A):

Great try Namibia!

I'm yelling at my TV - great work there, outstanding stuff. Come on Namibia

Fark, I love me some RWC

[taniwharugby]

Score?

[Duluth]

@taniwharugby said in RWC: Italy vs Namibia (Pool A):

Score?

7-0

[rustycruiser]

Go Namibia! (Basically our cousins once removed)

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth has it only just started?

[Duluth]

@taniwharugby 8mins in

[rustycruiser]

Great crowd for the game, the locals are embracing the WC big time

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth cheers, for some reason I thought it started at 4.45.

[African Monkey]

@nzzp It's great isn't it? Even games like this are a good watch.

[rustycruiser]

Italians strike back. Pealty try from the 5m scrum

[nzzp]

@African-Monkey said in RWC: Italy vs Namibia (Pool A):

@nzzp It's great isn't it? Even games like this are a good watch.

It's awesome. 2011 was just a festival here - all the games mean something, and you can't help but get into it. Minnow v Minnow are often the most enjoyable for neutrals

[Damo]

@rustycruiser said in RWC: Italy vs Namibia (Pool A):

Great crowd for the game, the locals are embracing the WC big time

Great stadium (for a secondary stadium), great crowd, great weather.

Feels like this will be a great RWC.

[Bones]

Wow, massive hungus from Allen and Italy miss out on a try.

[Billy Tell]

Namibia look about heartland standard. Their defence is porous. Italy are Italy.

[rustycruiser]

@Billy-Tell said in RWC: Italy vs Namibia (Pool A):

Namibia look about heartland standard. Their defence is porous. Italy are Italy.

Italy should be up by 3 tries by now

[Billy Tell]

NZ will put 80 to 100 points past Namibia. I read they have about 1000 players total.

[Billy Tell]

Namibia remind me of me! Stuffed after 20 minutes and hanging out for the halftime oranges.