RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER
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After that brilliant last-minute win over Wales in Cardiff and a fine U20 Six Nations campaign which featured three victories, there is a pleasing vibrancy about Italian rugby right now and they are taking all that energy into a busy summer which will offer up plenty of food for thought for coach Kieran Crowley.
The “Blue summer”, as it has been dubbed, was actually planned well over a year ago by former coach Franco Smith, in his new role of Head of Performance and was always envisaged as a concerted effor...