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[2013 EOYT] Italy
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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 596957" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>It got it's reputation back from the amateur era and just turned pro era. Reggiardo was one of the finest scrummagers of his time in the late 90's early 00's and Hasan, Roncero, Scelzo and Grau were all highly rated and at one point they had two sets of quality front rows and could afford to lose the likes of Noriega and Castro to other nations. </p><p></p><p>However it past it's best and started to wane around 2007/08 however people continued to wrongly hype it up and still did so even after some poor performances, Roncero and Scelzo remained in the team long after they had both gone well past their sell by date and depth beyond the 22 is a big problem now.</p><p></p><p>Put quite simply they thrived in the old scrums from the amateurs/early pros but didn't under the modern rules with increased "hit". The change in their fortunes in this tournament has actually been quite sudden with the rule changes, they weren't doing that last year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 596957, member: 48703"] It got it's reputation back from the amateur era and just turned pro era. Reggiardo was one of the finest scrummagers of his time in the late 90's early 00's and Hasan, Roncero, Scelzo and Grau were all highly rated and at one point they had two sets of quality front rows and could afford to lose the likes of Noriega and Castro to other nations. However it past it's best and started to wane around 2007/08 however people continued to wrongly hype it up and still did so even after some poor performances, Roncero and Scelzo remained in the team long after they had both gone well past their sell by date and depth beyond the 22 is a big problem now. Put quite simply they thrived in the old scrums from the amateurs/early pros but didn't under the modern rules with increased "hit". The change in their fortunes in this tournament has actually been quite sudden with the rule changes, they weren't doing that last year. [/QUOTE]
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