RUGBY MATTERS

IT’S BECOME almost a mantra or article of faith recently that reinforcements, in the form of a squadron of hungry young guns, are arriving on cue to build on Italy’s encouraging improvement. This has been based on Italy’s consistent improvement at U20 level where they have been dishing out bloody noses to the big boys for four or five years now.
The class of 2024 are also hopeful of good things at the Junior World Cup in South Africa this summer when they are in the same pool as Ireland, Australia and Georgia. They came within a whisker of beating Ireland away in the recent S...