Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakakorea te rangatira o Itari a Sergio Parisse i te tukinga RBS 6 Nations ki a Wales i te Stadio Olimpico. I roto i te whiu mo te Azzurri, kaore a Parisse No. 8 i ora mai i te wharanga waewae i pa ki a ia i te mutunga o te wiki kua hipa i te 29-0 i te kainga ki France. Ka whakakapia ia i te rarangi o muri e Samuela Vunisa, e neke atu ana mai i te taha tuwhera, me te toa o Mauro Bergamasco i whakawhiwhia ki te koti nama e whitu. Kei te whakawakia a Sergio Parisse e te kaitākaro o Wīwī a Rabah Slimani me te kaitiaki Gael Fickou i te Olympic Stadium. He whakamā a Parisse i a ia e wehe ana i te papa i te whakataetae Six Nations i waenganui i Itari me Wīwī. Kāore a Parisse i ora mai i te whara waewae, ā, ka ngaro ia i te kēmu whakamutunga a Itari o ngā Whenua e Ono. Ka riro i a Leonardo Ghiraldini, te wahine kairau o Leicester, te mana rangatira mai i a Parisse, i te mea e whai ana a Itari ki te aukati i te tono taitara a Wales mo nga Whenua e Ono. Ko etahi o nga whakarereketanga i mahia e te kaiako matua a Jacques Brunel mai i te tukinga a France ka tiimata mo Zebre fly-half Kelly Haimona, kua ora mai i te wharanga i kore ai ia e uru ki te tukinga a France, me te roa o te mahi a Martin Castrogiovanni. Italy team: L McLean (Sale); L Sarto (Zebre), L Morisi (Treviso), A Masi (Wasps), G Venditti (Zebre); K Haimona (Zebre), E Gori (Treviso); M Rizzo (Leicester), L Ghiraldini (Leicester, capt), M Castrogiovanni (Toulon), G Biagi (Zebre), J Furno (Newcastle), F Minto (Treviso), M Bergamasco (Zebre), Sisa Vun (Zebre). Ko ngā whakakapi: A Manici (Zebre), A De Marchi (Sale), D Chistolini (Zebre), Q Geldenhuys (Zebre), R Barbieri (Leicester), G Palazzani (Zebre), L Orquera (Zebre), E Bacchin (Treviso). Kei reira hoki he tūponotanga i te rarangi tuatahi mō te hoa o Ghiraldini o Leicester a Michele Rizzo, nāna i whakakapi te Matias Aguero i whara. Ko ngā kaitākaro mātanga o mua, ko Quintin Geldenhuys rāua ko Robert Barbieri, kei runga i te paepae. Ko te tukinga o te Rāhoroi te tuatoru o nga tukinga kaainga mo Itari i roto i te whakataetae o tenei wa, engari i eke ratou ki te toru noa iho nga tohu i te kaainga, ka heke ki Parani, ka patua hoki e 26-3 e Ireland. Heoi anō, kua patua e rātou...
I whara te kapene o Itari i te waewae i te hinganga 29-0 ki a Wīwī i te wiki whakamutunga. Ka whakakapia ia i te rarangi muri e Samuela Vunisa ki Wales. Ko Leonardo Ghiraldini te kaitiaki o Parisse.