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Well, what a disappointing result for Italy. We had a clear chance to be sitting in second place with 9 points (not that it would have meant anything but it would have been nice to see) as we were the superior team for 65 minutes, leading 29-18 and with the ball in hand inside of Scotland's 22...

Well, I really don't know what to expect from this italian team. Sometimes they look pretty bad (like against Wales and Ireland in the last U20 6N), sometimes they look really good (like against France or a few days ago against England). If they come out uninspired I can easily see Irland...

I swear, there's nothing more frustrating that being an italian rugby fan, just hell.

I mean, the fact the non-italian names are more noticable doesn't change the fact that the same thing happens in all NT, in some more than in others but it still happens. Let's consider Scotland for a second (nothing against Scotland, it's just the easier team to use as an example). Dell, Nel...

Great result, even if the performance wasn't that great. I agree that Rizzi's try was unclear but I think there was a case for a tackle without the ball on him and a penalty try. Also, they were playing an advantage right in front of the posts and so the worst case scenario was getting 3 points...

Huge game for Benetton today, if they will find a way to win they will be in a good position to achieve what would be a historical result for italian rugby. Great to see them keeping on with the improvement after last season's good results. Crowley decided to stick almost completely with the...

This is partially true but you also have to consider that most of Benetton's best players are (unfortunately) non-italian. Ioane, Duvenage, Tavuyara, Halafihi are all key players and they were all available this weekend, since none of them is an international. Also, many young or almost young...

I know, I was just joking about the fact that they would have also been missing time because of the World Cup. The vast majority of quality players are internationals and so they will be at the World Cup, it's not easy to find world class players that won't take part in that, that's what I...

Are you implying that Le Roux/Daly won't play in the World Cup??? Just kidding :) Congratulations to Matteo, hopefully he will recover perfectly from that horrible injury and will be able to show all his talent at Wasps. Of course you are right, he's not even close to Le Roux or Daly right now...

Really huge one! Finally something positive for italian rugby. They got a little lucky with the first try (probably a double movement) but were the better side in the second half, no doubts. The only negative thing is that they almost ended up wasting everything in the final two minutes with a...

Problem is, I'm not sure a new coach is the solution, it was the system that struggled producing world class players that can actually compete at the 6N level. Since O'Shea became coach there has been an improvment (or at least it looks like it) on that and more logic in the NT-Pro14...

Well, unfortunately the game went pretty much as expected. Wales played honestly pretty bad for their standard and still it never looked like they could actually lose the game. Impossible not to be disappointed as an italian fan. Italy has so many problems that it's diffcult to make a comment...

It's Top 12 now, hopefully they are gonna stop changing its name. And yep, the U20 game will be on FIR's YouTube and Facebook tomorrow, hopefully it will be available for welsh fan as well and not geo-restricted.

Lol Yes, here in the rugby third world we have a lot of teams with some kind sponsor in their names. Calvisano it's actually one of the best teams in our domestic league, they won 4 of the last 7 championship and have been in the final in the last 5 years. A lot of good young players played...

The italian XV for the game vs Wales 15 Jacopo TRULLA (Valsugana Rugby Padova)** 14 Edoardo MASTANDREA (Valsugana Rugby Padova)** 13 Matteo MOSCARDI (FEMI-CZ Rovigo)* 12 Damiano MAZZA (Kawasaki Robot Calvisano)* 11 Michael MBA (Rugby Casale)** 10 Paolo GARBISI (Mogliano Rugby 1969)** 9...

Thanks, good to have at least some information about the opponents! From what I read we are also quite inexperienced in the backs (5 out of 7 are 18yo) and we don't have the same quality we had last year in the forwards, so we're supposed to possibly suffer with the scrum. But the backs...

He's playing well there for Zebre but yeah, it tells you all the story about the italian locks situation. We don't even have a true lock in the squad, Budd, Sisi, Zanni and Ruzza are all playing there for the NT and the clubs but they all are 2nd-3rd row hybrids, sure not ideal.

Any welsh fan that can tell me how good you guys are this year? Staying close to France for most of the game looks like a decent result (at least I think), since they are supposed to be really good again in 2019. Does Italy have a real shot at back-to-back wins for the first time in U20 history?

I was hoping for Morisi-Campagnaro at 12-13, we'll se how they'll perform. Padovani on the wing it's not ideal but at least it gives us another boot and improves our kicking game. Hopefully the guys will step on the pitch ready to fight and give Wales our best shot, like we did last year with...

Sorry but I don't live in Rome so I'm not able to help you. The only thing I can do is to wish you good luck and enjoy the game!