ITALY

Can Italy break a catastrophically poor run of 32 straight defeats in Six Nations and claim their first win since they beat Scotland 22-19 at Murrayfield in 2015?
New coach Kieran Crowley, who led Benetton to their surprise Rainbow Cup victory last year, started to get his feet under the table during a mixed autumn but is about to experience the unforgiving Six Nations environment for the first time with an opening salvo of games against France, England and Ireland. It could get ugly.
What can he take out of the autumn? Well, there was plenty of dog in defeat against New Zealand...