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ITALY 3-66 ALL BLACKS
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FULLTIME - The conversion goes over and that is it. The All Blacks win 66-3 against Italy.
82mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Jordie Barrett scores his fourth and what a statement match by the 21-year-old. Way too easy there.
80mins - The All Blacks have a line out no and they'll try get one more try before the match ends.
79mins - Italy with a line out five out from the line. But it is a poor throw and the All Blacks get the ball.
78mins - Now Italy is close to the line. Can the end their season with a try?
76mins - Richie Mo'unga lands the conversion and the lead is now 59-3.
74mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Jordie Barrett now had a hat-trick, and Nathan Harris has the try assist. The All Blacks make a break and the hooker puts in a grubber to the wing of Barrett who scores in the corner.
72mins - The All Blacks make a nice run down the middle of the field. The next play, they kick the ball forward, but it touched in-goal by Jayden Hayward.
71mins - Penalty to the All Blacks as once again the scrum takes forever to complete.
69mins - This game as turned very scrappy now and quite dull in all fairness. All Blacks have a scrum to feed.
67mins - Italy have an attackine line out and they get a drive going, but play is brought back for a penalty advantage.
66mins - Italy looking more deadly with the ball now, as they build some phases together.
65mins - That took a long time to complete as the scrum is finally complete.
63mins - Scrum to Italy after a mistake by the All Blacks.
61mins - The All Blacks clear the bench so Nathan Harris, Karl Tu'inukuafe, Angus Ta'avao, and Brodie Retallick all come on.
60mins - We're into the final quarter in Rome. Can the All Blacks score four more tries to bring up 80?
58mins - The All Blacks try a grubber kick to the corner, but it doesn't hold up for Rieko Ioane and goes dead.
57mins - Things are going from bad to worse for Italy who give away a penalty at the scrum. The Al Blacks kick for touch and they have another line out five out from the line.
56mins - Waisake Naholo's night is over. He was very quiet. Rieko Ioane will come on the park as his replacement.
55mins - The All Blacks try some trick plays now with a kick over the top, and it sits up nicely, but a pass out wide goes to ground.
54mins - Richie Mo'unga lands the conversion.
53mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Damian McKenzie has a hat-trick now as he dives over for his third. The All Blacks grubber through and it bounces off the post, into the path of McKenzie to score.
52mins - The All Blacks take a quick line out and they attack down the left wing, but it comes to nothing as the ball goes into touch.
51mins - The All Blacks have a line out five out from the line. Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi and Richie Mo'unga both come on now. TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett are the ones to come off.
50mins - The All Blacks are back on the attack one more and are just outside the 22.
48mins - Ardie Savea comes off for Dalton Papalii Would have liked to have seen Savea out there more due to his form, but great to see Dalton get 30-odd minutes.
47mins - The conversion goes over. The score is now 45-3.
46mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Now Beauden Barrett scores for the All Blacks. Italy tries a trick play from the line out and Barrett reads it to perfection as he intercepts the ball and sprints over for the try.
45mins - The conversion goes over. The All Blacks lead 38-3.
44mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Ngani Laumape gets in on the scoring act as some great offloading gets the second-five into space to score near the posts.
43mins - But their advantage comes to nothing as the All Blacks win a penalty and now they're just outside Italy's 22.
42mins - Italy with the ball inside the All Blacks' half with a penalty advantage.
40mins - The second half is underway in Rome. Pascal Gaüzère blows his whistle as Tommaso Allan gets us started.
HALFTIME - Beauden Barrett lands the conversio and the All Blacks lead 31-3 at the break. Damian McKenzie and Jordie Barrett both have two tries while TJ Perenara has the All Blacks' other.
40+3mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Jordie Barrett has his brace now as he scores a rugby league-esk try. Beauden Barrett gets the ball and kicks out to the wing where his brother is one-on-one with Jayden Hayward, and he soars through the air and catches the ball to score in the corner.
40mins - Another penalty to NZ. They really want that fifth try right now.
39mins - Penalty to New Zealand as a mini scuffle breaks out. Nothing serious. All Blacks will look for one more try before halftime.
38mins - Marco Fuser comes on for Alessandro Zanni.
37mins - The All Blacks are just messing with Italy now. They nearly score an amazing five-pointer, but the last pass from Jordie Barrett to TJ Perenara is forward. Vaea Fifita goes on a big run which involved about five or six of the players.
35mins - The All Blacks have an attacking line out here. Can they score their fifth here.
33mins - Beauden Barrett lands the coversion. All Blacks lead 24-3.
32mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Jordie Barrett gets in on the scoring as he finishes off a move started inside their half. Ardie Savea turns the ball over and they counter. Dane Coles makes a break and finds Damian McKenzie who then gives it to Barrett to score under the posts.
30mins - Penalty to Italy. They could kick for goal here, but they opt to kick for touch. They'll have a line out about 10 out from the line.
29mins - Another missed conversion by Barrett as the All Blacks lead 17-3.
27mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Damian McKenzie has a brace. Nice easy try as Beauden Barrett gets the ball, and grubbers the ball through and the fullback scores. The in-goals are massive so plenty of space to try kicks like that.
26mins - Penalty to the All Blacks and they kick for touch and they will have a line out inside the 22.
25mins - Play resumes with a scrum to Italy.
24mins - Big news here as Andrew Brace is leaving the field. The Irishman has a knee injury. He had it looked at earlier but he is in pain. Assistant Pascal Gaüzère will take his place, but then who replaces the Frenchman on the sideline?
22mins - Scrum to the All Blacks after Italy drops the ball just inside NZ's half.
21mins - Italy building some phases together, but then a poor pass goes to ground and then Dane Coles kicks the ball away. What can't Coles do?
19mins - Beauden Barrett lands the conversion. All Blacks lead 12-3.
18mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - Damian McKenzie goes in under the posts. That was a beauty. Kieran Read attacks the line and somehow gets the ball to Patrick Tuipulotu,
who runs a great line and a simple draw and pass to his fullbacks sends him through.
17mins - Play resumes and the All Blacks had a penalty so they kick for touch.
16mins - Time is off here are referee Andrew Brace is down with a knee injury. The medics come on and use some magic spray and water on the Irishman's knee. Hopefully he doens't need to go off with injury.
15mins - Another free kick to Italy from the scrum. They take the tap and go for it.
14mins - All Blacks knock the ball on from the re-start.
13mins - PENALTY GOAL ITALY - Tommaso Allan lands the penalty attempt and now the score is 5-3 to New Zealand.
13mins - Penalty to the hosts. They will kick for goal here.
11mins - Italy get inside the All Blacks' 22 for the first time as Luca Sperandio goes on a big run.
10mins - A poor coversion by Beauden Barrett and the All Blacks have a 5-0 lead.
9mins - TRY ALL BLACKS - TJ Perenara is over for New Zealand. They caught Italy napping. They attack down the right wing, and Jordie Barrett passes the ball back infield and Perenara dives over.
7mins - The All Blacks are caught offside and now Italy has another penalty. They kick for touch, but their line out throw isn't straight, so we have another scrum...
6mins - Penalty to NZ, and they take the quick tap and TJ Perenara kicks the ball forward.
4mins - The All Blacks get the ball, but a loose carry means Italy go on the counter attack. There was another fumble and the referee says "no advantage" and Italy have another scrum.
3mins - After multiple re-sets, Italy wins a free kick and they take a quick tap.
1mins - Early line out to the All Blacks and captain Read wins it on the halfway line. New Zealand drive forward, but the maul goes to ground, and Italy wins the turnover.
KICKOFF - We're underway in Rome. Beauden Barrett gets us underway.
2:58am - As talked about yesterday, most of the All Blacks are wearing rainbow laces.
2:57am - Kieran Read is leading the haka which i've never seen before. TJ Perenara is at the front where Read is usually placed.
2:56am - The two Kiwis in the Italian squad - Dean Budd and Jayden Hayward - are both pictured singing Italy's anthem with lots of passion.
2:53am - There is a choir singing in the New Zealand anthem and they sound great doing it. Something different instead of music blasting out of the speakers.
2:51am - The stadium isn't full which is off to see in an All Blacks test admittedly. Both teams emerge from the sheds and are out on the field.
2:45am - We're now 15 minutes away. Both teams are back in the sheds and will be back out shortly for the anthems and then the haka.
2:35am - Last week, Italy lost to Australia 26-7, while the All Blacks lost to Ireland 16-9.
2:25am - The match is due to start in just over 30 minutes. This is the last All Blacks test of the year.
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Kia ora and welcome into Newshub's live updates between the All Blacks and Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
The test is the final match of the year for both teams.
In total there are 11 changes to the starting side with an all-new tight five, midfield and wing pairing the most significant changes to the team.
Beauden Barrett and Damian McKenzie have retained the 10 and 15 jerseys respectively with Jordie Barrett slotting onto the right wing and TJ Perenara coming in at halfback.
The final change from last week’s starting fifteen against Ireland is Vaea Fifita at blindside flanker in place of the injured Liam Squire.
Line-ups
All Blacks
1-Ofa Tuungafasi, 2-Dane Coles, 3-Nepo Laulala, 4-Patrick Tuipulotu, 5-Scott Barrett, 6-Vaea Fifita, 7-Ardie Savea, 8-Kieran Read (c), 9-TJ Perenara, 10-Beauden Barrett , 11- Waisake Naholo, 12-Ngani Laumape, 13-Anton Lienert-Brown, 14-Jordie Barrett, 15-Damian McKenzie
Reserves: 16-Nathan Harris, 17-Karl Tu'inukuafe, 18-Angus Ta'avao, 19-Brodie Retallick, 20-Dalton Papalii, 21-Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi, 22-Richie Mo'unga, 23-Rieko Ioane.
Italy
1-Andrea Lovotti, 2-Leonardo Ghiraldini (c), 3-Simone Ferrari, 4-Alessandro Zanni, 5-Dean Budd, 6-Sebastian Negri, 7-Jake Polledri, 8-Abraham Jurgens Stey, 9-Tito Tebald, 10-Tommaso Allan, 11-Luca Sperandio, 12-Tommaso Castello, 13-Michele Campagnaro, 14-Tommaso Benvenuti, 15-Jayden Hayward
Replacements: 16-Luca Bigi, 17-Cherif Traore, 18-Tiziano Pasquali, 19-Marco Fuser, 20-Johan Meyer, 21-Guglielmo Palazzani, 22-Luca Morisi, 23-Edoardo Padovani.
Head-to-head and past results
Played: 14
Won: All Blacks 14
Previous results:
2016: New Zealand won 68-10 in Rome
2012: New Zealand won 42-10 in Rome
2009: New Zealand won 20-6 in Milan
2009: New Zealand won 27-6 in Christchurch
2007: New Zealand won 76-14 in Marsellie (RWC)
Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Pascal Gaüzère (France), Sean Gallagher (Ireland)
TMO: Andrew McMenemy (Scotland)
Pre-match banter: All Blacks to wear rainbow laces in support of Gareth Thomas
The All Blacks will wear rainbow laces in their boots for this weekend's test against Italy on Sunday (NZ time) to show support for Gareth Thomas, after the former Wales captain was the victim of an anti-gay attack.
The 44-year-old, who came out as gay in 2009 - two years after retiring from rugby - posted a video on his Twitter page last weekend saying he was assaulted in Cardiff, targeted because of his sexuality.
"This morning, I decided to make what I hope will be a positive video," Thomas said. "Last night, I was the victim in my home city of a hate crime for my sexuality.
"Why I want it to be positive is because I want to say thank you to the police who were involved and have allowed me to do restorative justice with the people who did this, because I thought they could learn more this way than any other way.
"And also to the people of Cardiff, who supported me and helped me, because there's a lot of people out there who want to hurt us. But unfortunately for them, there's a lot more that want to help us heal."
South Wales Police said a 16-year-old boy has admitted to carrying out the assault.
Following the news, Wales, England and France all came out in support of Thomas, and said they would wear rainbow laces for their matches this weekend - and now the All Blacks will follow suit.
Thomas said on Twitter: "I wish I could put into words how much this means."
Captain Kieran Read said it is important for the All Blacks to show their support towards the LGBT community.
"Most of the lads will be wearing the rainbow laces, and I think it shows some solidarity in world rugby and from us here as New Zealand and as All Blacks to show support for that community."
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