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[November Tests 2017 EOYT] Italy vs. South Africa (25/11/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ainsthrilln" data-source="post: 881179" data-attributes="member: 68342"><p>Well, they have been playing on a yearly basis with the best teams of Europe, and almost yearly with Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.</p><p></p><p>It is very difficult to get among the best teams, but they had more opportunities than most teams.</p><p></p><p>And of course money matters, specially in the home games, but I imagine that the Australian tour and the match in Singapore against Scotland were not very profitable for them. What I suggest is that a match against Japan would have been better that the one at Singapore. And maybe a visit in June to the US should be considered sometime soon.</p><p></p><p>I do not criticize them for visitting Australia (in fact they played quite well there), but they only play against Top10 nations, and I think that helps them.</p><p></p><p>On the bright side, Italian homegrown players are getting better. Against South Africa only 4 starters were born outside Italy, if I am not wrong, and at some point only 3 of them were on the field. When I starting rooting for Italy on 2007, in many games less than a half on their players were born in the country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ainsthrilln, post: 881179, member: 68342"] Well, they have been playing on a yearly basis with the best teams of Europe, and almost yearly with Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. It is very difficult to get among the best teams, but they had more opportunities than most teams. And of course money matters, specially in the home games, but I imagine that the Australian tour and the match in Singapore against Scotland were not very profitable for them. What I suggest is that a match against Japan would have been better that the one at Singapore. And maybe a visit in June to the US should be considered sometime soon. I do not criticize them for visitting Australia (in fact they played quite well there), but they only play against Top10 nations, and I think that helps them. On the bright side, Italian homegrown players are getting better. Against South Africa only 4 starters were born outside Italy, if I am not wrong, and at some point only 3 of them were on the field. When I starting rooting for Italy on 2007, in many games less than a half on their players were born in the country. [/QUOTE]
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