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Message: <blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 557974" data-attributes="member: 48703">This should be a concern for Italy. Parisse, Castro, Zanni, Canale, Masi are all of a similar age and will retire at similar times. If you look closely at their side, the core of it has been together a long while now, right back from when John Kirwan was in charge.Meanwhile, their junior side has lost to Georgia and Japan within the 12 months, and has been relegated to the secondary IRB Junior World Trophy after losing to the Pacific Islanders junior teams Samoa and Fiji as well.And their fly half problems are over a decade old, Orquera is 31 now, and they seem to have given up actually producing a 10 of their own and are just flying in Argentine/Australian/South African rejects to be their 10 such as Burton, Orquera, Botes or di Bernardo. None of whom would challenge getting in any other Tier 1 sides B team.</blockquote>