NICK CAIN
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ITALY may be making progress, as Conor O’Shea insists, but their performance in the 2018 Six Nations shows that their Irish coach is caught between a rock and a hard place. The harsh reality is that Italy’s rate of progress since the Five Nations became Six in 2000 has been painfully slow, and that they are devaluing the greatest annual international tournament in the world game.
The best part of two decades should have been enough for Italian rugby, with the assistance of World Rugby (IRB), to have created a str...