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Oooops, sorry :D It's not easy for me to fully understand when you guys are joking or not. Anyway, you could find it funny but the reason why I took it seariously is because in Italy we have a lot of supporters of italian rugby who are really choosy about people called out of the blue in the...

This is what I'm really courious to find out too... P.S. Isn't Varney italian citizen too? I thought his mother is italian. (or is his grandma italian? That wouldn't make him italian citizen, just eligible)

This could be the best U20 we ever had. I think italian federation put together a big effort for the next U20 RWC in Italy with the purpose to enhance our best result, 8th place. Very good game for the italian guys. Didn't expect a game like that, result never been on discussion. Garbisi is a...

2 ways to see our line-up: 1. Franco is mad; 2. Franco is genius. I'm pointing specially at 10-12 where Canna is basically a newbie of the spot. Don't know if, trying to create some troubles to your backline, we are instead complicating our game. Truth is that with a "classical" deployment we...

For what I know, best prospect of current U20 selection are Koffi (who played as permit player for Zebre this year) and Mazza from Calvisano. I really heard good things about Fusco, the scrum half, but above all there's Moscardi who really seems to be the crack of the group.

I don't like Esposito too but COS seems to have a crush for him. He's been out for a year due to a knee injury and as soon as he came back he was in the National team. Another average player to me. Venditti won't see the Azzurri for a lot of time, I suppose, since he's not in the Zebre's 23 as...

COS specified that the choice of Campa at wing comes out from the will of not turning down Morisi, who is in great shape and even if he's a natural 12 (COS would never take out Castello at 12 because of his strong defensive attitude) can adapt at 13 but not at wing. He's not that fast. In this...

COS is basically at each Zebre and Treviso match and I suppose he visits them even during the week.

COS said Leo Sarto will be back as soon as he gets some game time with Tigers. We are so bad at the wings without Bellini and Sarto. Let's hope in a Campa's good display in a spot which is not usually his. Minozzi and Polledri out it's something that breaks my heart. They have a great weight on...

Can I use it for my signature? ;) Anyway, just my two cents. As I said many times here, when COS started his job, that was basically our year 0. But it's fair to recognize the fundamental value of Kieran Crowley&Michael Bradley's work to understand the path we are along. The 2 coaches of our 2...

I've nothing against Georgia and a possible 7 Nations but I just want to say a thing: ranking it's not a so precise parameter in this case. We have to manage TMs every damn year against the strongest teams in the world, very rarely we clash against tier2 sides. I can remember Georgia only...

I can see you feeling the hype a bit out of control. But I really ensure you that if we lose tomorrow rugby.it/forum will be the home of one of the greatest mass suicide of the history :D It's like we are waiting years for this match and with all the voices going around the world, with or...

Can I be really sincere here? We've thrown away so many years lately but we started doing seriously since COS came here. Our 0 year is there. The project is still very far to be complete but we are on the right path, as I wrote here so many times. I really hope, anyway it goes, that the future...

So tomorrow is the day. You cannot imagine how important is for us too, for our pride and selfconsciouness. It's really a shame that both teams won't line up all the best players they have. I don't know georgians players but I can't help but think they'll be superior on scrummaging and...

You can't imagine how painful this is. We should have closed the match at the beginning of 2nd half but we didn't. Don't wanna add anything else, it won't be elegant.

Italy won versus Scotland 45-31 this afternoon. I think this is the best italian U20 6N ever. Well, not that hard to say, actually.

This is who we have. I just have the regret of not seeing Polledri, but it's COS style. We'll see him for sure in June tests. Glad to have back Licata, our 20 years old wonderboy and Bisegni at 13. He really deserves the spot after well performing with Zebre in the last games and Boni, despite...

Our young lads aren't bad at all, as I wrote here in the past. Rizzi is going to play for Treviso next year and I think he'll be Italian number 10 for the future. It's really heartwarming to see our scrum destroying the welsh even down in 7, impressive, Fischetti, Cannone and Lamaro will have a...

We'd like to play against Georgia and we're going to play them in November, finally. It's World Rugby that decides who's playing who and since Italy is ranked as tier 1 we get often tiers 1 or pacific nations. It's the same reason that creates Georgia's complaints for not getting chances to...

Not in the lineout, but in scrum for sure. The times of Castro, Lo Cicero, Perugini and so on are really far away. It seems that the trend we had in the last 15 years has been inverted, we don't produce anymore good front rows but we have a good amount of possible choices in the backline...