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					<Commentary type="Match" title="Ireland v Italy - LIVE" timestamp="201002061616">
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								<minutes>80</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[A kick out on the full by Wallace - that's the first such mistake Ireland have made that I can remember this game. It's not been pretty, but the basics have been spot on from the Irish. But one final fling, Mirco Bergamasco makes a break, Mauro in support, then a grubber from Gower, Kearney covers.. and that's it. Ireland kick off their titel defence with an excellent win, but there's a lot of soul-searching to do for Italy. Over to Twickers - cheers from Dublin!]]></text>
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								<minutes>78</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Nope, nothing coming, Ireland first win a scrum at the line-out, then win a penalty at the scrum. Two minutes to go...]]></text>
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								<minutes>77</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Italy get a penalty now, central and in their own half (it's where they've played most of this game). ONe last throw of the dice?]]></text>
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								<minutes>75</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Not this time, Ireland opt for the scum. Kearney, positioned centrally, chooses the left hand side but is caught... and Italy get the scrum.]]></text>
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								<minutes>74</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[BOD and Wallace making room down the right now, Ryan on the charge on a straight line in support, and Italy are caught offside in front of the posts... three more?]]></text>
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								<minutes>72</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Good Italy scrum breaks up the Irish unit and wins a penalty, McLean bangs it downfield, but again they lose a line-out and again Ireland march it, then hoof it, downfield.]]></text>
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								<minutes>70</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Kearney launches a counter attack down the left, Ireland seem to eb opening up now... but turnover ball, as soon as Ireland open it up, they get loose.]]></text>
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								<minutes>68</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[It's over! PENALTY IERELAND, 29-11 and that should be the ball game (if it wasn't already).]]></text>
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								<minutes>67</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Wallace makes a break down the middle with his first touch of the ball, into the Italy 22, then brought down, the ball is recycled and Italy are caught offside... Wallace opts to go for goal as Ireland look to close the game out.]]></text>
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								<minutes>66</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Bodies everywhere at the moment after a particularly attritional phase of play. O'Gara still struggling and Ghiraldini struts off with blood pouring from a head wound. O'Gara is off, Wallace on.]]></text>
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								<minutes>63</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Kick from Tebaldi goes out on the full and Ireland on the attack again. Italy have made so many marginal errors, while Ireland's basics have been absolutely spot on, that's the difference between the teams here.]]></text>
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								<minutes>61</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[O'Ryan on for O'Connell who seems to be struggling with a head knock.]]></text>
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								<minutes>60</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Slow ball for Ireland this time and a monster hit by Bortolami turns the ball over, but again the ball is kicked away, kicked back by O'Gara for a yardage loss.]]></text>
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								<minutes>58</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Ireland win a penalty at the scrum, O'Gara puts it into the corner, Ireland going for the kill now.]]></text>
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								<minutes>57</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Brief beak for an O'Connell knock, then a great kick from O'Gara which McLean is caught in possession fielding and Ireland win an attacking scrum.]]></text>
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								<minutes>56</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Italy seem to have found a spark of life. McLaughlin steals the line-out, but Canale runs back the clearance menacingly and wins a scrum.]]></text>
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								<minutes>55</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[McLean launches a counter attack from a poor Kearney kick and is high-tackled by O'Leary. McLean opts to put this one ot the corner as time ticks on.]]></text>
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								<minutes>54</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Another excellent raking kick from O'Gara to the Italian 22, the Irish are squeezing out whatever life remains in this game after Italy have finished with it.]]></text>
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								<minutes>52</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Referee sorts out a little contretemps between BOD and Canale, after which there's a scrum, where again, very little happens.]]></text>
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								<minutes>49</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[The ground is remarkably quiet here, this is becoming a bit of a non-event of a game. Rain also starting to fall]]></text>
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								<minutes>47</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[It is. PENALTY IRELAND! 26-11, Italy must stop giving away the points they win.]]></text>
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								<minutes>46</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[But again, straight at the restart Italy give away a penalty, it looks like it could be a soft three points...]]></text>
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								<minutes>45</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Mirco Bergamasco drills it over. PENALT ITALY! 23-11 and Italy nearly back in this game.]]></text>
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								<minutes>44</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Messy Italian line-out ball, but Tebaldi takes it on well and Italy win another penalty, this one in goalable range...]]></text>
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								<minutes>42</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Penalty to Italy for taking the man out in the air and Leo Cullen is perhaps a little fortunate not to get yellow-carded there.]]></text>
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								<minutes>41</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[SECOND HALF: We're underway again, with a rather desultory exchange of kicks, won by O'Gara who bounces one into touch well into the Italy half.]]></text>
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								<minutes>40</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Last moments of the first half, Italy run down the clock and thump it clear and that's half time. Ireland dominant, Italy living off scraps, but 15 behind and with little sign of that improving. Join us in ten to see if they can spring the unlikeliest of comebacks!]]></text>
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								<minutes>39</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[The conversion just drifts to the right.]]></text>
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								<minutes>38</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[And just as we sing Ireland's praises, Italy score! A soft try, Kearney dithers over a clearance and it's charged down by Robertson, who regathers and scores! TRY ITALY! 23-8!]]></text>
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								<minutes>37</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[O'Gara lands the conversion with aplomb. 23-3!]]></text>
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								<minutes>36</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[And right on cue, Ireland extend their lead on our return, with O'Leary sniping round the blind side of a ruck. 21-3 with the conversion to come... Italy don't look bad, but Ireland look in terrific form. TRY IRELAND! 21-3!]]></text>
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								<minutes>35</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[OUr apologies for a technical glitch for a few moments there... we've had a penalty to Ireland from O'Gara, a yellow card for Italy for a spear tackle by Gonzalo Garcia, and another penalty from O'Gara following it. Ireland are 16-3 up in points, 15-14 up in men, and very much on the up in terms of game momentum.]]></text>
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								<minutes>28</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Straight from the restart, Ireland win a penalty, O'Gara shoots... PENALTY IRELAND! 13-3!]]></text>
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								<minutes>26</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Gower with a long penalty... it's there! PENALTY ITALY, 10-3! A superb strike!]]></text>
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								<minutes>25</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Great scrum from Italy, winning another penalty. Could they wear their way back into the game that way?]]></text>
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								<minutes>24</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Cullen steals a line-out and Ireland get a drive on, but good Italian rucking disrupts the ball... cleaned up by O'Leary, but the move peters out and Italy win a penalty.]]></text>
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								<minutes>22</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Still Italy with the ball, still next to nothing happening. Kicked down to Kearney now, who launches a counter attack, BOD on his shoulder and there's space on the right here, Wallace charging on... but BOD goes for the chip right, the right option, but the bounce is not so helpful.]]></text>
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								<minutes>20</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Snail pace stuff from Italy, the ball recycling is good but there's just nobody trying to put pace on it, and Ireland win turnover ball which Kearney clears.]]></text>
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								<minutes>17</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Italy nearly claim the restart, but knock it on in the attempt. Free-kick to Italy at the scrum though, they opt for a scrum themselves. Gower makes a little break from it, but the ball is far too slow.]]></text>
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								<minutes>16</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[O'Gara curls in the conversion! 10-0 Ireland, they are looking very solid.]]></text>
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								<minutes>15</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Trimble breaks from a line-out down the left, brilliant stuff! Inside to Kearney, to O'Leary, Italy stretched. A ruck, out the ball goes and there's acres of space on the right, D'Arcy out to Heaslip, and the Lions number eight is cantering home! TRY IRELAND!]]></text>
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								<minutes>13</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Luke McLean clears now after marking an up and under. McLean is sporting a sensational beard.]]></text>
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								<minutes>12</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Box kick by Tebaldi out on the full and Ireland get a line-out on halfway. Not much action to speak of so far, but Ireland look disturbingly comfortable (disturbingly for Italy anyway).]]></text>
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								<minutes>10</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[The first score of the 2010 Six Nations! PENALTY IRELAND! 3-0!]]></text>
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								<minutes>9</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[A penalty to Ireland now as Castrogiovanni is penalised for pulling down a scrum, this should be easy meat for O'Gara...]]></text>
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								<minutes>8</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Ireland are struggling to retain possession on their own ball, wit O'Leary unde pressure with messy ball. O'Gara tries a chip for Heaslip, who just knocks it on as he goes to regather.]]></text>
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								<minutes>5</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Good moments from Italy here, with Zanni making a poweful run on the short side. Grubber from Garcia, claimed by Bergamasco - ohhh, why did he not give it wide! Instead he is caught in possession and Ireland win a penalty. An early chance goes begging for Italy!]]></text>
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								<minutes>4</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Messy ruck involving O'Connell, O'Leary is drawn in and then penalised for going to ground. Static start, which will suit Italy and a sweet kick by Gower down into Ireland's 22.]]></text>
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								<minutes>3</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[A good penalty ti Italy's 22, but the line-out not so good and O'Leary is snared 10m back. Wallace and O'Connell drive it back on though.]]></text>
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								<minutes>1</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Ireland make the first mistake of the tournament, knocking on at a ruck, so Italy get the first scrum. Let's see how their vaunted pack fares.... a good heel, and several phases of take ball, but Del Fava penalised for holding on and Ireland get an early penalty.]]></text>
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								<minutes>0</minutes>
								<text><![CDATA[Welcome to a packed-out Croke Park for the start of the 2010 Six Nations! Ireland kick off their Grand Slam defence against an Italy team still steadily improving, but the odds are stacked against the Azzurri today as a confident Ireland team, unbeaten in 2009 and with all big guns firing, welcome them into 2010. How will Italy cope with this fresh onslaught and without Sergio Parisse? The anthems being sung and kick off moments away...]]></text>
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