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Watch: Ange Capuozzo splits Boks defence for another screamer
By Ian Cameron
Italian flyer Ange Capuozzo has cut through the Springboks' defence for another sensational Autumn Nations Series 5 pointer - this time in Genoa.
The World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year nominee was on the receiving end of a tip on from Italian back row star Michele Lamaro and he didn't need to be asked twice. The 23-year-old fullback made a B-line for whitewash after jinking inside of Kurt-Lee Arendse before outpacing the covering tackle of Damien Willemse.
It was his first touch of the game.
Capuozzo lit up the Guinness Six Nations this year and has gone on to bring that form to the Autumn Nations Series. He was similarly electric against the Wallabies, scoring a remarkable try against Dave Rennie's men in Florence last weekend, a score that went on to see the Azzurri bagging their first win over Australia.
You can see French Top 14 giants Toulouse has sealed him in with a mega five-year deal.
Cappuozzo is one of a number of young Italian players who have spearheaded a seeming Italy renaissance, which was kicked started following their upset win over Wales in Cardiff.
He is one of four nominees for the breakthrough player of year award, alongside England’s Henry Arundell, Ireland’s Mack Hansen and Dan Sheehan. The results will be announced on Sunday evening in Monaco.
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GB is England, Scotland, Wales. They are the 3 constituent countries in Great Britain. Ergo playing only those three countries is a tour of GB. The difference between GB and the UK is Northern Ireland. It's not a huge deal to be accurate and call places by their correct name. But please refrain from your idiotic attempts to BS that GB=UK. It doesn't.
Go to commentsThe 2023 draw was only criticized when it became apparent that the top 5 sides in the world were on the same side of the draw. Nowhere did they discuss the decision to backtrack to 2019 rankings which ensured that England and Wales (ranked #12 in 2023) were ranked top4.
The parties who trashed out the schedule were England Rugby, NZ Rugby and ITV. It is bordering on corrupt that a Rugby nation has the power to schedule its opponents to play a major match the week before facing them in a QF.
You won't find commentary by members of the relevant committees because a committee did not make the scheduling decision. I have never heard members of World Rugby speak out on the draw or scheduling issues.
For example in 2015 Japan were hammered by Scotland 4 days after beating SA. The criticism only happens after a cock up.
A fair pool schedule is pretty straightforward: The lowest two tanked teams must play on last pool day but not against each other. That means that TV can focus on promoting big matches with a Tier2 involved for that Friday.
Why does NZ Always get its preferred slot playing the hardest pool match on day 1?
Why do other teams eg France, Ireland, Scotland get so often scheduled to play a hard match the week before the QFs?
If you believe the rules around scheduling are transparent then please point me in the right direction?
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