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How ridiculous is it that Simone Gesi can't get a look in for the national team?

C69 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:53 am
sturginho wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:40 am Labour's election strategy has been leaked, this is huge!

That will work

It reminds me of this one:

Wellingborough is the constituency next to mine, even though I didn't have a vote I had several leaflets about the Labour candidate come through my letterbox, but absolutely nothing from the Tories. I think they gave up on winning the seat the moment Bone got deselected. .. and once the local party...

Labour's election strategy has been leaked, this is huge!

Gallagher to Treviso is official too, soon all of the Italian qualified exiles will belong to Benetton!

https://www.onrugby.it/2024/02/15/benet ... ancoverdi/

Also Garbisi is moving to Toulon effective immediately:

https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites ... on/1448759

Tommy Allan has withdrawn from the squad citing fatigue, add that to our growing list of injuries and we have almost an entire XV missing.

Lynagh is called up straight away, as is Francois Mey

Italia, l’enenco dei convocato per la terza giornata del Sei Nazioni 2024 Piloni Simone FERRARI (Benetton Rugby, 50 caps) Danilo FISCHETTI (Zebre Parma, 37 caps) Matteo NOCERA (Zebre Parma, esordiente) Luca RIZZOLI (Zebre Parma, esordiente) Mirco SPAGNOLO (Benetton Rugby, 2 caps) Giosuè ZILOCCHI (Be...

TB63 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:48 pm

Well Cameron is a noted pig fucker, so he'd probably jump at the chance

Speaking of Irish poaches, apparently Tom Clarkson is eligible for Italy:

https://emergingrugby.wordpress.com/202 ... ian-rugby/

The rumour on the Quins board is that this stems from Lynagh not putting the work in during his injury layoff, coming back way out of shape, then expecting to be automatic first choice. Things deteriorated from there. Pinch of salt and all that but it must have been a pretty serious breakdown betwe...

It didn't go through any process though? The comment was leaked by the Mail (who likely had it for a while), they firstly defended him in the press, they then started pontificating and leaking well he can run but he'll be suspended immediately when the backlash started, then when it continued they ...

Varney and being charged down - an iconic duo. Also love Pearce reffing the choke tackle properly It's a real problem, garbisino can't kick, varney keeps getting charged down, hopefully page-relo is better? I don’t get why they keep trying it - just run the ball One of the big taking points in the ...

Fucks sake, even when Italy do something good they manage to find a way to fuck it up

Wheels starting to come off

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:32 pm Varney and being charged down - an iconic duo.

Also love Pearce reffing the choke tackle properly

It's a real problem, garbisino can't kick, varney keeps getting charged down, hopefully page-relo is better?

Fischio shows his class again

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:27 pm Italy have competed pretty well but they’re totally outclassed

Doesn't help that garbisi seems completely out of sorts

Can't believe we lost to this lot

Dirty immigrants!

That's a shocking decision

Forward pass in the build up to that?

15 Ange CAPUOZZO (Stade Toulousain, 16 caps) 14 Lorenzo PANI (Zebre Parma, 6 caps) 13 Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 31 caps) 12 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 13 caps) 11 Monty IOANE (Lione 26 caps) 10 Paolo GARBISI (Montpellier, 32 caps) 9 Stephen VARNEY (Gloucester, 25 caps) 8 Michele LA...

laurent wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:51 pm
sturginho wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:46 pm YMX If I play the French Horn does that make me French?
as French as Ange Capuozzo.

Now now, don't be jealous that Ange wanted to play in the correct shade of Azzuro

YMX If I play the French Horn does that make me French?

And look on the bright side, they very helpfully put it on a Sunday so you don't have to watch

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:35 pm Hate it when Italy are away to one of the better teams. It means that we functionally have just two matches that round.

Well I for one shall dutifully tune in thinking "this is it, this is our day!" and then turning off five minutes later when it turns out that it's not actually our day

Sadly I can't recall his name, but there was the Edinburgh flanker selected for Scotland who was Scottish as far as he, his parents and grandparents were concerned. The eligibiltiy rules were changed as a result of his case as none of them had been born in Scotland. His was an old military family a...

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:25 pm Italy likely to score a well-worked wonder try involving the entire team, but not much else.

If I were Quesada I would put out a second string team, given Ireland's knack for injuring our best players

Who is your country's most shameful poach? Michael Bent for Ireland, no doubt about it. Think he was capped the week he landed in Dublin. And I think that was his 1 and only cap :lol: Tobie Botes for Italy was a residency poach like any other, but I always got the impression that he was capped just...

There’s a whole ton of shit catching up with McMahon now. Alleged rape of a female ref, teenage boys being abused by senior staff, human trafficking. And he’s no longer majority owner, so now he’s out, he’s out. He's always been so obviously dodgy just from the stuff we know about. Running the terr...

Ymx wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:18 pm England spared blushes by the poach. He didn’t arrive by dinghy.

Should be sent to Rwanda for that stupid fucking barnet

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:10 pm It's going to be a long 6N. Unlucky Italy

Not really unlucky, just a bit too shit in the second half
Some good things for Quesada to build on though

Moral victors!

Che senso ha? Asks the commentary, it's a question I often ask myself when watching Italy

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:58 pm
sturginho wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:57 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:56 pm Daly tripped him there.
That was a trip??
Yes, he very clearly stuck his boot out when he knew he was beaten. Blatant and deserved the card.

OK, will need to see the replay

Utterly brain dead

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:56 pm Daly tripped him there.

That was a trip??

What was that for?

Spagnolo on his debut wins a pen off Cole, good start

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