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To our Scots friends out there… I came across this story today, about this village in Italy with Scottish ties. Legend or not, I think it is a story worth sharing From Wiki: Gurro is said to be populated by the descendants of Scottish soldiers. According to local legend, Scottish soldiers fleeing t...

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What's the story with Minozzi? Himself Pani, Capuzzo and Lynagh make a great back three outside Garbisi, Menoncello and Brex. Italy are a 9 away from a serious backline. Minozzi has just retired, couldn’t find form after 3 years of injuries. What a shame, Polledri too… both were 27 years old. Here ...

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And Pani try of the tournament.

Both 21 years old, I think that has never happened before.

FORZA ITALIA

We can play rugby.

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:40 pm Should have known better. This is an April Fools.

Benvenuto!

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Next year URC will see a 3rd italian franchise based in Roma named “Centurioni”.
Dragons will be dropped, an agreement has been reached between WRU and FIR.

Here the article:

https://www.gazzetta.it/Rugby/Urc/news/ ... centurioni

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Sharks did Benetton’s Leoni a massive favour too

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The punchline could have been -after 20 seconds the towel started to moan with pleasure. And the three went “Waft the fück?”-

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Perugini - Ghiraldini - Castrogiovanni
Cristofoletto - Croci
Zanni- Parisse Bergamasco
Troncon - Dominguez
Menoncello - Brex
Cuttitta - Troiani - Vaccari

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Menoncello played very well in every single match of the tournament.

Ben Earls was good in the first 2 matches, but Roots played better IMHO.

The only one in all the matches that played constantly well is Menoncello.

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... or use them just to break ties. It's dumb that Italy's record (Played 5, Won 2, Drawn 1, Lost 2) is better than Scotland's record (Played 5, Won 2, Drawn 0, Lost 3) but they're still behind. Bonus points should not make up for losing the bloody game. Winning the match is the whole point of it a...

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What sort of press coverage has the last few weeks got back in Italy Has it helped raise the profile of the team and the sport? It has boomed: front page in every newspaper, 3 minutes in every tv news. YouTubers and Instagram pages with loads of new followers. There is a tag rugby tournament in Tre...

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For the first time i 24 years, I can understand the statement: “Yeah you scored some tries in the end but the match was over”. It’s the first time in 24 years that I thought after 10 minutes: “Ok, we got this, we can win this.” The first time Italia controlled the game from the first minute till the...

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AND-y wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:20 pm I'm not sure this years team is better than the 90s lot to be honest. Maybe they should be I don't know, but they are about the same on the pitch.

Italia in the 90’s won against Ireland, France and Scotland, but not against Wales.

So maybe this is your worst

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:13 pm Those consolation tries will impact Italy's chances of moving up the table.

Need us or England to trash our opposition now.

5th after two wins and a draw seems harsh!

After an entire collection of wooden spons, feels like a Gran Slam.

Anyway we are 8th in the Rankings now

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We just relaxed at the end.

FORZA AZZURRI!!!!!!!!

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Italia was better than Wales in every facet of the game in the first half. But I fear a typical italian brainfart that has plagued us in the past. And obviously a second half like Wales did in against the Scots Garbisi has had 1 brain fart (that backward kick for the winger) and a blunder (the 2pts...

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Italia was better than Wales in every facet of the game in the first half.

But I fear a typical italian brainfart that has plagued us in the past.
And obviously a second half like Wales did in against the Scots

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I fear a Welsh come back like the U20 did yesterday

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Uh, that photo, it does remind me something.

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Capuozzo will be missed.. Pani has a good kick and has some potential but it seemed a bit out of place against England.. it is a good test for him ( no pressure!) I am more positive about Varney True, but Pani played out of position in the wing, could work with Zebre when it happens towards the end...

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Capuozzo broke a finger while Tackling Steyn on the first half, still played till the end. What a hero!

Pani can really kick looooong, he is fast, but he is no Capuozzo.

I’m a bit worried.

6+2 on the bench, looks better than the Welsh bench.

In Brexoncello we trust!

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Pizza is overrated. There, I've said it. You are right. Many Italians think so. [history nerd mode: on] And it might sound incredible but the pizza we eat nowadays was born in USA, when Italian immigrants in the late XIX century met Tomato sauce, something they had never seen before. The Pizzerias ...

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Theflier wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:35 pm What’s italys biggest win in the championship?

2007 at Edinburgh 17-37

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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:29 pm Chianti is just a poor man's Sangiovese.

There, I've started the spite.

mmmm. nope.

https://www.superiore.de/it/vino/toscan ... legno.html

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Here is a jem for you all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9i8h05X0E It's the first ever match in what was the Magners/Celtic league for an Italian club. In that match Tommaso Benvenuti made his pro debut and scored a try too, he went on to be an important centre for Italy in the 10's. But it was...

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Here is a jem for you all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9i8h05X0E It's the first ever match in what was the Magners/Celtic league for an Italian club. In that match Tommaso Benvenuti made his pro debut and scored a try too, he went on to be an important centre for Italy in the 10's. But it was ...

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0ber0n wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:15 pm "Gwlad beirdd a chantorion"

in archaic italian:

"Landa di bardi e cantori"

seee...how close we are

It's not archaic italian that. I would say a bit aulic, not words you would use in your everyday life
but it's italian

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Auckman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:46 pm Is Crowley still coaching? He deserves some credit. Aside from the All Black annihilation, I understand they’ve had a reasonably respectable 18 months.

Nope. We have Quesada now.
He barely had 2 sessions with all the players to work with before W1 on this tournament.

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Wow. Just wow.

I do not think Italia will be able to repeat what did 2 years ago.
Should be a close match until latter stages.

I hope to see our guys fight like they did all the tournament, even in Dublin.

Would be fantastic to avoid that wooden spoon once in a decade

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Yesterday we swept Scots U20 away, once again.
Sweet sweet winning taste

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Think Italy just grabbed their public's love and buy in there. Full and loud attendance, big TV audience. These wins are big. That's massive for us. 2 positive results. This time we didn't have a man advantage, this time we went down, got up and won. We earn this win. This is a very good Scottish t...

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YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Scotland the better side, as predicted.

But I like how our Azzurri fight, we have a very, very good bench today.

Menoncello one of the best Centre in the world now, IMHO

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ruggers85 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:42 am They do make it a tough match though. Last year at Murrayfield was a prime example.

Italia could have won, if it wasn't for that last scrum penalty.
We were a lot closer than the final result might tell.
+21 in Roma is too much IMHO.

I expect Scotland to win by less than 12

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We will suffer a lot at line out. Good team with a very good looking bench too!
Our ball carriers are all there.

Scotland better than Italia, but it can be a good match to watch.

Lynagh!!!!! Bentornato in Italia!!

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15 Ange CAPUOZZO (Stade Toulousain, 18 caps) 14 Louis LYNAGH (Harlequins, esordiente) 13 Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 33 caps) 12 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 16 caps) 11 Monty IOANE (Lione 28 caps) 10 Paolo GARBISI (Tolone, 34 caps) 9 Martin PAGE-RELO (Lione, 6 caps) 8 Ross VINTCENT (E...

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Been there, I remember some other attractions: broken parachute, minefield jumping, walking in napalm fog, be the target, plutonium touch/lick challenge.

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This time last year I got sunstroke with the temperature at 26C. The wife has us booked for Amalfi later in the year. I really would like to see Como again or Laga de Iseo? I love Amalfi, go visit the Duomo and its museum, amazing. 20 minutes boat trip from there, go visit Cetara and eat there, cos...

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Thank you all. I will read all your posts with my missus, who as I wrote has been there for a year so she knows better than me. The plan is Dublin first 2 days, then travel around with a rented car for a week. Galway is a must, my daughter stayed there for 2 weeks and loved it. For who asked, We hat...

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Hi Irish people, in July me and my wife will travel to Ireland. I've never been there, my wife lived and worked there for a year 25 years ago. What I'd like to know is if there's some local sites to rent Apartments, Houses or B&Bs , something outside Booking/trivago. Here in Italia you can find a lo...

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