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Wales slip up against Italy in Women's Six Nations
By Online Editors
Wales let slip a half-time lead against Italy to begin their Women’s Six Nations campaign with a 19-15 home loss.
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Robyn Wilkins kicked an early penalty and also converted Hannah Jones’ try to give Wales a 10-5 lead at the interval, with Italy scoring through hooker Melissa Bettoni but also spurning a number of other chances.
The visitors made amends after the break and scrum-half Sara Barattin was stopped just short of the line after a superb break, but the ball was quickly recycled for winger Maria Magatti to dive over from close range.
Five minutes later Italy worked the ball wide from a five-metre scrum and left wing Sofia Stefan was given a simple finish, with Michela Sillari converting both scores to make it 19-10.
Wales refused to throw in the towel and Kelsey Jones scored a well-worked try from a line-out, but Italy held on to seal victory at Cardiff Arms Park.
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Ah I know it’s going to be hard for those French teams when they get thrashed at altitude at Loftus Versveld. They should call it the Heineken South African cup, he is right European teams are not going to win it anymore
Go to commentsSome of the historical and more recent decisions made by the NZR board can be described as dumb. I don't think Mark Robertson is CEO material. OK his responsibility is operations rather than governance, but his strategic thinking is weak. The treatment of Mr Foster earlier in the season bears this out. So it is not surprising that the Board appear to be flip flopping on decisions on the next All Black coach. The attitude of the NZR Board seems tinged with wokeness. So Razor's modus operandi doesn't sit well with this. So let's look forward to another dumb decision that will be rationalised away. Or we could be surprised .........yeah right!
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