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Italia 15 Lorenzo PANI (Zebre Parma, 7 caps) 14 Louis LYNAGH (Harlequins, 1 cap) 13 Juan Ignacio BREX (Benetton Rugby, 34 caps) 12 Tommaso MENONCELLO (Benetton Rugby, 17 caps) 11 Monty IOANE (Lione, 29 caps) 10 Paolo GARBISI (Tolone, 35 caps) 9 Stephen VARNEY (Gloucester, 28 caps) 8 Lorenzo CANNONE ...

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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 You should have greater ambiti...

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Scalabrin. He is the one. Where does he play? If not in France, he should soon get some offers... He plays in Vicenza, Italian top league, he is part of Benetton's Academy project. There are rumors of him moving to Zebre next season. He is part of a group of players under contract with FIR in a pla...

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When I was living in HK in 10 years ago I had to still go down the bank and deposit a cheque for rent once a month. Madness. How long were you in HKG? I was there from 1976 until 1995, with a few breaks. In the good old days, most expats didn't have to bother about complications like paying the ren...

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I thought they were going to execute a fighting retreat from Bakhmut by now but all reports suggest the Ukrainians aren’t prepared to do that “yet”. Instead, they fully intend to stand and fight. Crazy buggers. If the report is right and Russians casualties are 5 to 1 of the defenders, maybe it is ...

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Can they not just increase the size of the six nations? TRADIIIIITIOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN! Didn't they break with tradition letting Italy in? Plus we should have Japan and at least one PI Nation in The Rugby Championship... :D 5N to 6N was easy, still 5 weekends but 50% more games. It was a logical expa...

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Lock in the original 5N (who played together for ages and are the backbone of European rugby) and make Italy’s spot a rotating wildcard spot. Not going to happen either, why should Italy accept this? And what a bullshit of a tournament would it be? Relegation but only for some, because some are mor...

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Rugby2023 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:46 pm How come Georgia are so good while the whole USA can't even beat Portugal?

Congrats Lelos

Portugal is not a bluff, they are a good team.

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There should defo be a promotion relegation process. And why would the WFU, just to make an example, who founded the tournament and makes the most of it's income from it, risk to be relegated and probably be bankrupt if they don't earn the promotion the following year? We have the WC and then we ha...

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Who was the other tier one nation georgia beat this year ? Would you call Italy a T1? I personally wouldn’t , but the stupid bitch tv woman said this without actually saying who the other team was , so I wanted to know. T1 now really is NZ, Sa, Aus, Eng, France ,Ireland , perhaps Arg T2 is Scot wal...

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backrow wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:01 pm Who was the other tier one nation georgia beat this year ?

Would you call Italy a T1?

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 3:51 pm That's bigger than the Japan win over South Africa

Nope, that was the WC. Can't compare it with a test match.

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Chilli wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:23 pm Link please

If you have a VPN, log in a Italy server and go to
https://www.tv8.it/streaming

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Anything can happen in a game, as someone mentioned already, a red card can really make a difference. Italy is getting better and more players are coming into the top level, the last 2 games and the one in Cardiff were great, but in between them there was a last minute undeserved win in Portugal and...

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Floppykid wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:04 pm Congrats Italy.
Maybe can do something at the world cup to really help momentum in the country.

We need good games in the 6N, people watch those games.
For the WC unfortunately we have France and Abs in our pool

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Wasn't this played in Florence? They usually play rugby in Rome don't they? Question for Italian rugby fans.. Do you think rugby in Italy is getting bigger? I think you guys have had recent success in U20 rugby as well. So maybe better players are starting to come through the ranks? Rome for the 6N...

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highlands wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 3:49 pm Wow. Well done Italy. Wish I had watched this one. How many wins is that on the trot now?

2
f**ked up in Georgia in the summer

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Change for Italy
Garbisi out, injured
Allan in at 10
Padovani at 22

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Australia will win but Italy will give them a good run. Crowley has Italy playing good rugby and not just a scrumfest as was the traditional Italian style. To be honest, at the time Italy had a top class pack, now the pack is not as dominant as before and we have some good quality players on the ba...

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Nolanator wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:44 am They're such an outlier compared to the rest of the EU on so many issues. Fúck them. Can they be ejected from these organisations?

No, we need to work to make them kick out Orban and his friends.

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The more I see this kind of stuff the less I am convinced it is just "Putin's war". I would like to think that, but I am not that sure anymore.

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Great shots of the bomb going off on this one: https://twitter.com/i/status/1578631537980948480 Those images make it look like the road bridge blew up first, and the railway carriages going up secondary. Agree, also from the other videos it looks like the explosion came from the side of the road, n...

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Bridge is gone. That's big stuff.

Russia will react.

Without the bridge and if Ukraine can get to Nova Kakhovka and control the water, it will be a long winter in Crimea.

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Do any of the war gurus on here think the UKR forces might be resting and doing recon on ground they have taken and what they may take next? It has been pretty slow on here except for those two dribbling window lickers OB & MR. HR said yesterday there is an OPSEC media blackout I hope so, I think a...

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US sending 4 more HIMARS to Ukraine https://twitter.com/mrkovalenko/status/1577115129757372418?s=46&t=oQZsRJj6IIVec0FkLxes-w Wow, unexpected. They promised 16 or 18 a couple of weeks ago, but they will be delivered mid of 2023, because they have to be produced. If the US are sending 4 now it means ...

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Russel drove into Schumacher and Hamilton came in only when it suited him Russell hardly touched Schumacher and Hamilton came straight in for a new wing Surely Alan isn't referring to this feint touch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghJNCSmh8s0 You mean the one that forced both of them to box?

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More than NATO I am interested in how UN will react, I don't know who will still side with Russia if they use tactical nukes

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Could he start a war with NATO purely to get a full mobilisation going? Especially if it gets close to a defeat for Russia and he becomes increasingly desperate? They are getting their ass kicked in Ukraine by an army that is just receiving some of the latest NATO weapons, and are being quickly tra...

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Russia can't cut off gas supply to the West completely. It needs the money. Hence the own goal I mention. By training the European to survive without its gas, he is helping them toward making the decision to boycott. I agree, Russia is forcing the EU to make decision not based on just economy but a...

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Timely. Gazprom turning the screws in presenting force majeure dated retrospectively to July 14. Remains to be seen what happens with the Nord Stream 1 turbine to see full flow resumed. I suspect a continuing reduced gas flow through to depletion of German gas reserves through Autumn for the hard h...

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The EU is sparing with a dude that has the wood on them. The EU doesn’t have a single hit that can make Putin tap out of this. The sanctions are pushing the EU into recession and Putin can deliver the knockout with the flip of a switch and there’s no rescue for it. The trade EU to Russia is not a o...

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You're crediting Germany with too much clout... They've become backseat passengers in this thing and events are passing them by.... You really think Poland, the Baltic's, Finland etc give a toss Germany's economy right now? I think Poland does care about the market that is 29% of their export. Germ...

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You're crediting Germany with too much clout... They've become backseat passengers in this thing and events are passing them by.... You really think Poland, the Baltic's, Finland etc give a toss Germany's economy right now? I think Poland does care about the market that is 29% of their export. Germ...

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So to summarise the article so no one else has to read it. The EU went ahead with the deal because despite getting nothing from it, it gives them a small foothold in the pacific region through NZ. NZ being a small player of course overall but it does have some influence in the south pacific due to ...

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An article on China, the likely winner of this war. https://theconversation.com/ukraine-conflict-how-china-could-follow-russias-playbook-to-increase-its-own-powers-186673 I always thought that the war in Ukraine is a strong message to China, I remember my Chinese friends telling me in the first day...

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If they're determined to add the South Africans to the 6 nations then why not add Georgia and two others, Portugal and Romania (or whoever is decent) then play out two conferences. One made up of the old 5N and the other with SA, Italy, Georgia, and the two others. At the end you do a 1v1, 2v2, etc...

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Today Russia will close the Nord Stream gas pipeline for maintenance, it should reopen in 10 days.
If it doesn't, Germany will be in trouble

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Cheslin Kolbey on his way back to the Stormers Going to be very expensive to do. He signed a 3 year contract with Toulon last year. But then, the Stormers have SARU money behind them Didn't he have a difficult season due to injuries? Maybe the French are getting tired of high salary players who can...

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Even if he did declare war and do a full mobilization, would it even change anything in the short to mid term? Wouldn’t it be months before any of those units would be ready to be sent to the front? Yes, several months to be properly trained and they would only be useful for infantry but, I think, ...

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https://www.cityam.com/germany-caves-in-to-russias-rouble-demands/ Germany is paying in roubles. Seriously why bother with any of them. Until this changes Russia cannot be changed. Poor Ukraine. Agree. I wonder what would happen if the pipelines went boom. Germany, Italy, probably Austria without e...

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