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Italy dealt double injury blow but receive ban boost

Monty Ioane of Italy reacts during the Autumn Nations Series match between Italy and New Zealand at Allianz Stadium on November 23, 2024 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Jonathan Moscrop/Getty Images)

Italy will be without winger Monty Ioane and lock Dino Lamb for their camp ahead of their Guinness Six Nations round three fixture with France in Rome.

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The pair, who were both part of the recent victory over Wales, will not attend the camp in the Italian capital when they assemble on Sunday.

A knee injury has meant that Ioane has become the latest member of Gonzalo Quesada’s back three injury list, which also includes Louis Lynagh and the versatile Paolo Odogwu. Rovigo’s 21-year-old full-back, and former Italy U20 international, Mirko Belloni has been called into camp as cover.

Harlequins lock Lamb, who had a 20-minute cameo against Wales that included a yellow card, has picked up a knee problem.

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Italy have not indicated how long the pair will be out of action for.

While this is a blow for the Azzurri, they have been boosted by the return of loosehead prop Mirco Spagnolo, who had been serving the final two weeks of a five-week ban at the beginning of the Championship. The 24-year-old featured in every match for Italy last year.

Italy squad
Props

Simone Ferrari (Benetton Rugby, 61 caps)
Danilo Fischetti (Zebre Parma, 49 caps)
Marco Riccioni (Saracens, 32 caps)
Luca Rizzoli (Zebre Parma, 2 caps)
Mirco Spagnolo (Benetton Rugby, 11 caps)
Giosuè Zilocchi (Benetton Rugby, 22 caps)

Hookers
Tommaso Di Bartolomeo (Zebre Parma, uncapped)
Gianmarco Lucchesi (Toulon, 30 caps)
Giacomo Nicotera (Stade Francais, 30 caps)

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Second-rows
Matteo Canali (Zebre Parma, uncapped)
Niccolò Cannone (Benetton Rugby, 49 caps)
Riccardo Favretto (Benetton Rugby, 4 caps)
Federico Ruzza (Benetton Rugby, 61 caps)

Back-rows
Lorenzo Cannone (Benetton Rugby, 25 caps)
Alessandro Izekor (Benetton Rugby, 4 caps)
Michele Lamaro (Benetton Rugby, 45 caps)
Sebastian Negri (Benetton Rugby, 60 caps)
Ross Vintcent (Exeter Chiefs, 11 caps)
Manuel Zuliani (Benetton Rugby, 29 caps)

Scrum-halves
Alessandro Garbisi (Benetton Rugby, 15 caps)
Martin Page-Relo (Lyon, 15 caps)
Stephen Varney (Vannes, 30 caps)

Fly-halves
Tommaso Allan (Perpignan, 83 caps)
Paolo Garbisi (Toulon, 44 caps)
Leonardo Marin (Benetton Rugby, 13 caps)

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Centres
Giulio Bertaccini (Valorugby Emilia, 1 cap)
Juan Ignacio Brex (Benetton Rugby, 43 caps)
Tommaso Menoncello (Benetton Rugby, 25 caps)
Marco Zanon (Benetton Rugby, 17 caps)

Back three
Ange Capuozzo (Toulouse, 25 caps)
Matt Gallagher (Benetton Rugby, 2 caps)
Simone Gesi (Zebre Parma, 2 caps)
Jacopo Trulla (Zebre Parma, 13 caps)

Invited
Mirko Belloni (Rovigo, uncapped)

Injured
Monty Ioane (Lyon, 37 caps)
Dino Lamb (Harlequins, 11 caps)
Louis Lynagh (Benetton Rugby, 5 caps)
Paolo Odogwu (Benetton Rugby, 6 caps)
Andrea Zambonin (Zebre Parma, 9 caps)

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RedWarriors 4 hours ago
Antoine Dupont undergoes surgery on injured knee ahead of long absence

Rugby incident, happens scores of times in a game. Dupont wasn’t even hit with much force, Beirne just clears him and force is added from behind from Furlong.

We can’t have special treatment for France just because their star is the one who gets unlucky.

There is already a lack of clarity around actual Written decisions and how they differ from bans.

For example, Mauvaka the official written decision states Mauvaka to have made a ‘reckless’, ‘deliberate’, shot ‘to the head’ of a ‘player in a vulnerable position’ on the ground. That’s a high level entry ban of 10 weeks. However, the press release did not show ‘reckless’ or ‘vulnerable player’ ticked alloweing Mauvaka to enter at the 6 match mid range.

Similarly Ntamack’s written report showed that it was a ‘reckless’, ‘head shot’ with ‘injury’. The injury was a fully displaced nose bone and Ntamack apologizes for the injury in the written report. This should give Ntamack an entry level of 6 weeks but in the Press Release ‘Injured’ is unticked meaning Ntamack gets away with a 4 week entry ban. This is not counting the fact that the world knows he deliberately injured Thomas.

No. France have been abusing the system for years, recently spreading disinformation about the Ringrose ban in order to undermine confidence in the process.

Giving France even more special treatment is not the answer.

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