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Saturday Mar 11, 2023

Italy Head Coach Kieran Crowley Doesn't Hold Back On Match Officials

Italy slipped to an immensely disappointing 29 – 17 loss, at home to Wales as they now stare down yet another Six Nations wooden spoon.

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Certainly, the Azzurri were at times the architects of their own downfall as they squandered a number of try scoring opportunities.

Whilst the mistakes mounted, Italy appeared to gather the short straw in terms of referring decision as they routinely found themselves being penalised.

In the immediate aftermath, Italy head coach Kieran Crowley didn’t hold back in his assessment of the match officials as he said; “How can a team give away 17 penalties and not be warned once?”

“Five or six of those were on their own line. The non-awarding of the penalty try to us in the first half, it was their number ten was offside when he tackled.”

“Then they didn’t even review the two guys who cleaned out were tackled in the back field when we broke.”

“There’s a lot of bloody frustration.”

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Crowley then went on to highlight the opportunities his team missed through their own mistakes before being asked about the officiating once again.

“You’ve got to go through the right channels but I don’t know but I am sick of going through the right channels and getting a response of oh we’re sorry we got it wrong.”

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