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EOYT: Scotland vs Tonga, 24/11/2012
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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 539698" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>Italy have their own problems to deal with too though.</p><p></p><p>They might be okay in the short term, but if you look closely at the Italian squad, they may suffer a mass retirement of their team post RWC 2015, where Lo Cicero, Ghiraldini, Castrogiovanni, Geldenhuys, Zanni, Parisse, Barbieri, Orquera, Bergamasco and Masi will all be over at least 31 years of age after that tournament. And Italy will have to go through a big rebuilding phase if they all retire/decline in a short period of a couple of years.</p><p></p><p>They still can't find a fly half for the long term, and are resorting to try and sign foreigners to plug this gap. And unlike say Argentina who have had some good results at Junior level, Italy were relegated from the JWC this year. And with the exception of Simone Favaro, they haven't produced a new forward of note for about 6 years, as a result they have been playing pretty much the same pack for about 6 years now.</p><p></p><p>At least Scotland have found players such as Richie Gray, Dave Denton in the last couple of years, they might not exactly be producing tonnes of talent, but how many Italian forwards of note are there under the age of 23?. However the fact that Scotland are resorting to signing players like Nel, Strauss, Maitland to play for them doesn't speak much for their up and coming talent though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 539698, member: 48703"] Italy have their own problems to deal with too though. They might be okay in the short term, but if you look closely at the Italian squad, they may suffer a mass retirement of their team post RWC 2015, where Lo Cicero, Ghiraldini, Castrogiovanni, Geldenhuys, Zanni, Parisse, Barbieri, Orquera, Bergamasco and Masi will all be over at least 31 years of age after that tournament. And Italy will have to go through a big rebuilding phase if they all retire/decline in a short period of a couple of years. They still can't find a fly half for the long term, and are resorting to try and sign foreigners to plug this gap. And unlike say Argentina who have had some good results at Junior level, Italy were relegated from the JWC this year. And with the exception of Simone Favaro, they haven't produced a new forward of note for about 6 years, as a result they have been playing pretty much the same pack for about 6 years now. At least Scotland have found players such as Richie Gray, Dave Denton in the last couple of years, they might not exactly be producing tonnes of talent, but how many Italian forwards of note are there under the age of 23?. However the fact that Scotland are resorting to signing players like Nel, Strauss, Maitland to play for them doesn't speak much for their up and coming talent though. [/QUOTE]
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