Sun 19 Jun: Wales Women v Italy Women KO 13:00

[John Drake]

Discuss this weekend's international:

Wales Women v Italy Women KO 13:00
at Pandy Park, Cross Keys

[ATLANTISMAN]

Didn't know about this one John brill:)

 

Paul

[fighting irish]

i'm looking forward to getting along to see this one.

Hope the weather's good.

I don't know anything about the Italian's form?

 

[RigbyLuger]

Lost to Ireland last week, so should be a home win.

[unapologetic pedant]

4 hours ago, fighting irish said:

I don't know anything about the Italian's form?

Lost 6-30 to Ireland last week.(second half 6-6).

Previous games - lost a tight one to Turkey and beat Serbia comfortably. Both these games refereed by blokes with flimsy grasp of rules, so hard to read too much into them but Italians looked competent in basics.

BTW, in Serbia v Italy ref was telling players to crouch/bind/set. And they did just that - seemed to work quite well.

[fighting irish]

11 minutes ago, unapologetic pedant said:

Lost 6-30 to Ireland last week.(second half 6-6).

Previous games - lost a tight one to Turkey and beat Serbia comfortably. Both these games refereed by blokes with flimsy grasp of rules, so hard to read too much into them but Italians looked competent in basics.

BTW, in Serbia v Italy ref was telling players to crouch/bind/set. And they did just that - seemed to work quite well.

Well at least their playing.

I wonder how they are funding the travel, for these International fixtures? (Not just Italy, but Ireland, Turkey and Serbia).

It's not cheap to put these games on, when you consider the distances between competing nations. 

[unapologetic pedant]

58 minutes ago, fighting irish said:

I wonder how they are funding the travel, for these International fixtures? (Not just Italy, but Ireland, Turkey and Serbia).

It's not cheap to put these games on, when you consider the distances between competing nations. 

Good question. I`ve seen Sport Ireland mentioned somewhere. No idea about the others. Probably the players are defraying some of the cost. Maybe treating it as a short holiday. Wouldn`t mind a visit to Crosskeys judging from the pictures last weekend.

[BroncoFan]

Wales are coming along nicely and some of their best players are only 18yo so their future is looking good.

[Cw25]

Wales 22-16 Italy

[fighting irish]

15 hours ago, unapologetic pedant said:

Good question. I`ve seen Sport Ireland mentioned somewhere. No idea about the others. Probably the players are defraying some of the cost. Maybe treating it as a short holiday. Wouldn`t mind a visit to Crosskeys judging from the pictures last weekend.

It's a pleasant little ground. 

[fighting irish]

10 hours ago, Cw25 said:

Wales 22-16 Italy

I wonder? I do hope it's a close game though, not too one sided.

[RigbyLuger]

 

[fighting irish]

Joyo! 

[bird]

 

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Score updates

[JonM]

60-0 Final score. I can't remember there being a situation before where a country has had its mens and womens national teams playing at the same time, even if the two games only overlapped by a few minutes.

[fighting irish]

Wales were too strong for the Italians, who were very game but overpowered. 

Don't know the final score, I left before the end, with it 32 - 0 at about half way through the second half.

The ground is a really idyllic setting surrounded by steep sided, tree covered mountains.

The nice weather made it a joy to be there and a good partisan crowd cheered on the foneddigion.