The Official Italian Rugby Fred

[Marylandolorian]

Is Garbisi injured?

A lot of Italian names in that team!

Yes he is, but he may be available against England

Two Cents rugby did a video about number of foreign born players in each squad and Italy only had 6, however there's several players missing like Ioane, Halafihi, Nemer, Faiva who would be in the squad if available who would bump those numbers up

Big lost for your team, Garbisi was playing very well this season, got injured against Bordeaux.

Do you know why Mori isn’t on the list again?

[snaporaz]

Mori can't defend.

[sturginho]

Is Garbisi injured?

A lot of Italian names in that team!

Yes he is, but he may be available against England

Two Cents rugby did a video about number of foreign born players in each squad and Italy only had 6, however there's several players missing like Ioane, Halafihi, Nemer, Faiva who would be in the squad if available who would bump those numbers up

Big lost for your team, Garbisi was playing very well this season, got injured against Bordeaux.

Do you know why Mori isn’t on the list again?

I think KC just doesn't rate him, mainly because of his poor defending

[Slick]

Is Garbisi injured?

A lot of Italian names in that team!

Yes he is, but he may be available against England

Two Cents rugby did a video about number of foreign born players in each squad and Italy only had 6, however there's several players missing like Ioane, Halafihi, Nemer, Faiva who would be in the squad if available who would bump those numbers up

Big lost for your team, Garbisi was playing very well this season, got injured against Bordeaux.

Do you know why Mori isn’t on the list again?

He was the best 10 in last years 6N

[Slick]

Is Garbisi injured?

A lot of Italian names in that team!

Yes he is, but he may be available against England

Two Cents rugby did a video about number of foreign born players in each squad and Italy only had 6, however there's several players missing like Ioane, Halafihi, Nemer, Faiva who would be in the squad if available who would bump those numbers up

Thanks, that’s very impressive. I have to say that I think it’s now pretty inevitable that Italy are going to be permanently above Scotland by the end of the decade unless we have some major changes

[sturginho]

Azzurrini team to play France tonight:

15. MEY François Carlo (2003 – ASM Clermont)
14. GESI Alessandro (2003, Livorno Rugby)
13. PASSARELLA Dewi (2003 – Benetton Rugby Treviso)
12. BOZZO Nicola (2004 – U.S. Arlequins Perpignanais)
11. DOUGLAS Mathias Leon (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)

10. SANTE Giovanni (2003 – Montpellier Hérault Rugby)
9. BATTARA Sebastiano (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)

8. RUBINATO Matteo (2003 – Rugby Casale)
7. ODIASE David (2003 – Oyonnax Rugby)
6. BERLESE LIZARDO Carlos (2003 – Ruggers Tarvisium)
5. TURRISI Pietro (2003, Racing 92 Paris)
4. MATTIOLI Alex (2003 – Rugby Colorno 1975)
3. GALLORINI Marcos Francesco (2004 – Unione Rugby Capitolina)
2. QUATTRINI Giovanni (2003 – Asd Rugby Milano)
1. AMINU Destiny Ugiagbe (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)

A disposizione:

16. GASPERINI Nicholas (2004 – Stade Français Paris)
17. TADDEI Samuele (2003 – Rugby Noceto FC)
18. ARTUSO Alex Valentino (2003, Rugby Casale)
19. LAVORENTI Filippo (2003 – CUS Torino)
20. PONTARINI Enrico (2003 – Rugby Casale)
21. BOZZONI Filippo (2003 – Rugby Calvisano)
22. BRUNIERA Andrea (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)
23. BOTTURI Jacopo (2004 – Rugby Calvisano)

[sturginho]

U20s to play England

15. BRUNIERA Andrea (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)
14. GESI Alessandro (2003, Livorno Rugby)
13. MEY François Carlo (2003 – ASM Clermont)
12. PASSARELLA Dewi (2003 – Benetton Rugby Treviso)
11. DOUGLAS Mathias Leon (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)
10. SANTE Giovanni (2003 – Montpellier Hérault Rugby)
9. BATTARA Sebastiano (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)
8. RUBINATO Matteo (2003 – Rugby Paese)
7. ODIASE David (2003 – Oyonnax Rugby)
6. BERLESE LIZARDO Carlos (2003 – Ruggers Tarvisium)
5. TURRISI Pietro (2003, Racing 92 Paris)
4. MATTIOLI Alex (2003 – Rugby Colorno 1975)
3. GALLORINI Marcos Francesco (2004 – Unione Rugby Capitolina)
2. QUATTRINI Giovanni (2003 – Asd Rugby Milano)
1. AMINU Destiny Ugiagbe (2003 – Mogliano Veneto Rugby)

A disposizione
16. GASPERINI Nicholas (2004 – Stade Français Paris)
17. TADDEI Samuele (2003 – Rugby Noceto FC)
18. ARTUSO Alex Valentino (2003, Rugby Casale)
19. PONTARINI Enrico (2003 – Rugby Casale)
20. BOTTURI Jacopo (2004 – Rugby Calvisano)
21. BOZZONI Filippo (2003 – Rugby Calvisano)
22. BRISIGHELLA Simone (2004 – Rugby Viadana 1970)
23. BOZZO Nicola (2004 – U.S. Arlequins Perpignanais)

[TheFrog]

Italy U20 keeps on improving. The future is looking bright.

[sturginho]

[weegie01]

Blooming poaches!

[sturginho]

15 Ange CAPUOZZO (Stade Toulousain, 8 caps)
14 Edoardo PADOVANI (Benetton Rugby, 41 caps)
13 Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps)
12 Luca MORISI (London Irish, 40 caps)
11 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 7 caps)

10 Tommaso ALLAN (Harlequins, 67 caps)
9 Stephen VARNEY (Gloucester Rugby, 17 caps)

8 Lorenzo CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 4 caps)
7 Michele LAMARO (Benetton Rugby, 22 caps) – capitano
6 Sebastian NEGRI (Benetton Rugby, 41 caps)
5 Federico RUZZA (Benetton Rugby, 37 caps)
4 Niccolò CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 26 caps)
3 Marco RICCIONI (Saracens Rugby, 17 caps)
2 Giacomo NICOTERA (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
1 Danilo FISCHETTI (London Irish, 26 caps)

A disposizione:

16 Luca BIGI (Zebre Parma 43 caps)
17 Federico ZANI (Benetton Rugby, 17 caps)
18 Simone FERRARI (Benetton Rugby, 41 caps)
19 Edoardo IACHIZZI (Vannes, 1 cap)
20 Jake POLLEDRI (Gloucester Rugby, 19 caps)
21 Manuel ZULIANI (Benetton Rugby, 7 caps)
22 Alessandro FUSCO (Zebre Parma, 6 caps)
23 Pierre BRUNO (Zebre Parma, 8 caps)

[sturginho]

I convocati dell’Italia
Piloni
Pietro CECCARELLI (Brive, 25 caps)
Simone FERRARI (Benetton Rugby, 43 caps)
Danilo FISCHETTI (London Irish, 28 caps)
Marco RICCIONI (Saracens Rugby, 19 caps)
Luca RIZZOLI (Zebre Parma, esordiente)
Federico ZANI (Benetton Rugby, 19 caps)

Tallonatori
Luca BIGI (Zebre Parma 45 caps)
Marco MANFREDI (Zebre Parma, esordiente)
Giacomo NICOTERA (Benetton Rugby, 10 caps)

Seconde Linee
Niccolò CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 28 caps)
Riccardo FAVRETTO (Benetton Rugby, 1 cap)
Edoardo IACHIZZI (Vannes, 3 caps)
Federico RUZZA (Benetton Rugby, 39 caps)
Andrea ZAMBONIN (Zebre Parma, 2 caps)

Terze Linee
Lorenzo CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 6 caps)
Michele LAMARO (Benetton Rugby, 24 caps) – capitano
Sebastian NEGRI (Benetton Rugby, 43 caps)
Giovanni PETTINELLI (Benetton Rugby, 10 caps)
Manuel ZULIANI (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)

Mediani di Mischia
Alessandro FUSCO (Zebre Parma, 8 caps)
Alessandro GARBISI (Benetton Rugby, 3 caps)
Martin PAGE-RELO (Stade Toulousain, esordiente)
Stephen VARNEY (Gloucester Rugby, 19 caps)

Mediani di Apertura
Tommaso ALLAN (Harlequins, 69 caps)
Giacomo DA RE (Benetton Rugby, 1 cap)
Paolo GARBISI (Montpellier, 22 caps)

Centri
Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 21 caps)
Enrico LUCCHIN (Zebre Parma, 1 cap)
Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 9 caps)
Luca MORISI (London Irish, 42 caps)

Ali/Estremi
Pierre BRUNO (Zebre Parma, 10 caps)
Ange CAPUOZZO (Stade Toulousain, 10 caps)
Edoardo PADOVANI (Benetton Rugby, 43 caps)

[sturginho]

I'm a bit confused by this, they must be very confident in Capuozzo's fitness not to have included any backup. They can always draft someon in at a later date, but Shirley if you think you might have to call up someone like Gesi or Montemauri (they would be my preferences anyway) you would want to have them in the squad for the full two weeks learning the game plan instead of calling them up last minute

[Jim Lahey]

Blooming poaches!

Fuck nose what he's saying but I'd go into battle with him!

[sturginho]

https://www.onrugby.it/2023/03/14/calvi ... ie-minori/

Calvisano have voluntarily withdrawn from the Italian Top10 and will start again from a lower division due to financial problems

[sturginho]

So with the world cup just round the corner, the all knowing FIR have announced that Crowley will be leaving after the world cup and when I say he's leaving, I mean he's been kicked out. Gonzalo Quesada is all but confirmed as his replacement. Quite frankly I find the FIR's behaviour in all this to be absolutely disgraceful. Announcing a new coach prior to a WC has never worked well for us, it didnt in 2007 or 2011. But at least in those cases the outgoing coach didnt want to stick around, not so in this case. Even in the video they put out to make the announcement you have KC talking about how much he loves the team and the players and how he desperately wanted to stay and continue developing the team. But no, the clique at the top of the FIR know what's best. They're honestly turning out to be worse than Gavazzi and his cronies. First Aboud and now Crowley have been forced out despite clearly getting results. Indeed it is now clear that the overly optimistic predictions ahead of the autumn tests and the 6 nations were just to put pressure on the team and the coach to justify the decision to replace him that they had obviously already made. He confounded them with the win over Australia, so they tried the same trick again at the 6 nations, "oh look see, we wanted two wins and he didn't get any....."

Ok rant over, fcuk the FIR and thanks for everything Kieran

[sturginho]

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[sturginho]

1st warm up game vs Scotland

15 Lorenzo PANI (Zebre Parma, esordiente)
14 Pierre BRUNO (Zebre Parma, 12 caps)
13 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 10 caps)
12 Luca MORISI (svincolato, 44 caps)
11 Montanna IOANE (Lione, 17 caps)
10 Tommaso ALLAN (Perpignan, 71 caps)
9 Martin PAGE-RELO (Lione, esordiente)
8 Toa HALAFIHI (Benetton Rugby, 9 caps)
7 Manuel ZULIANI (Benetton Rugby, 10 caps)
6 Federico RUZZA (Benetton Rugby, 41 caps) – capitano
5 Andrea ZAMBONIN (Zebre Parma, 2 caps)
4 David SISI (Zebre Parma, 27 caps)
3 Pietro CECCARELLI (Perpignan, 26 caps)
2 Epalahame FAIVA (svincolato, 5 caps)
1 Federico ZANI (Benetton Rugby, 21 caps)
A disposizione:
16 Marco MANFREDI (Zebre Parma, 1 cap)
17 Danilo FISCHETTI (Zebre Parma, 30 caps)
18 Filippo ALONGI (Benetton Rugby, 1 cap)
19 Edoardo IACHIZZI (Benetton Rugby, 5 caps)
20 Lorenzo CANNONE (Benetton Rugby, 8 caps)
21 Alessandro GARBISI (Benetton Rugby, 4 caps)
22 Giacomo DA RE (Benetton Rugby, 1 cap)
23 Federico MORI (Bayonne, 12 caps)

[sturginho]

Menoncello needs surgery and will miss the world cup

[Tichtheid]

Menoncello needs surgery and will miss the world cup

I'm sorry to hear that, it's such a shame when these players miss a career highlight like the World Cup, but he is very young, he'll make the next one.

[sturginho]

Morisi is moving to Zebre after the world cup:

https://www.onrugby.it/2023/09/26/luca- ... /?comments

I think Hame Faiva is still looking for a club but Zebre already have like a dozen hookers so it's probably not an option for him

[sturginho]

I don't know why they would organise this to clash with an Italy world cup match but anyway, also happening on Friday is a friendly between Benetton and Zebre, both teams are putting very young teams out:

Benetton
15 Ignacio Mendy
14 Marco Scalabrin
13 Dewi Passarella
12 Filippo Drago (c)
11 Matthias Douglas
10 Tomas Albornoz
9 Lorenzo Casilio
8 Riccardo Favretto
7 Giulio Marini
6 Alessandro Izekor
5 Enrico Pontarini
4 Riccardo Andreoli
3 Giosué Zilocchi
2 Lapo Frangini
1 Destiny Aminu

A disposizione: Mirco Spagnolo, Bautista Bernasconi, Marcos Gallorini, Enzo Avaca, Edoardo Iachizzi, Santiago Ruiz, Nicolò Casilio, Dewaldt Duvenage, Tommaso Simoni.

Zebre
15. Simone Brisighella (0)
14. Jacopo Trulla (41)
13. Franco Smith Jr (14)
12. Damiano Mazza (5)
11. Filippo Bozzoni (0)
10. Geronimo Prisciantelli (Cap) (16)
9. Ratko Jelic (10)
8. Davide Ruggeri (11)
7. Iacopo Bianchi (43)
6. Luca Andreani (29)
5. Andrea Zambonin (34)
4. Nicola Piantella (0)
3. Riccardo Genovese (5)
2. Giovanni Quattrini (0)
1. Luca Rizzoli (12)

A disposizione:
16. Nicholas Gasperini (0)
17. Muhamed Hasa (13)
18. Ion Neculai (28)
19. Matteo Canali (0)
20. Bautista Stavile (0)
21. Bradley Henderson (0)
22. Thomas Dominguez (0)
23. Antonio Rizzi (38)
24. Giovanni Montemauri (0)
25. Ben Cambriani (0)

[sturginho]

Jake Polledri definately delivering the goods at Gloucester, you have a ready made replacement there for Sergio

Today he announced his retirement aged 28. A couple of weeks ago Matteo Minozzi also announced his retirement aged 27. Both could have been absolute superstars for Italy but have spent the last four years trying to recover from devatating injuries (Matteo nearly lost an eye, Jake was almost paralysed.) However both of their recoveries have been hampered by a seemingly neverending spate of injuries.

A big thankyou and good luck to both of them

[Tichtheid]

Jake Polledri definately delivering the goods at Gloucester, you have a ready made replacement there for Sergio

Today he announced his retirement aged 28. A couple of weeks ago Matteo Minozzi also announced his retirement aged 27. Both could have been absolute superstars for Italy but have spent the last four years trying to recover from devatating injuries (Matteo nearly lost an eye, Jake was almost paralysed.) However both of their recoveries have been hampered by a seemingly neverending spate of injuries.

A big thankyou and good luck to both of them

That's sad news.

We do ask a lot of these young men for our entertainment.

[Stranger]

That's a big shame.

[sturginho]

https://www.rugbypass.com/plus/juan-ign ... ot-enough/