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Ex-Kangaroos boss joins Italy coaching staff for upcoming World Cup

By AAP

17 Jun 2022

(Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Tim Sheens, who guided Australia to World Cup glory in 2013, has bolstered Italy’s backroom team for this year’s tournament.

The addition of Sheens, 71, the director of football at NRL club Wests Tigers, is a major coup for the Azzurri, who face defending champions Australia as well as Scotland and Fiji in their Group B fixtures.

Sheens will work alongside head coach Leo Epifania and his assistant Terry Campese as well as former Hull and Gateshead forward Tony Grimaldi, who is the strength and conditioning coach.

Also on board for Italy as team manager is Tas Baitieri, a former French national coach and Rugby League International development officer.

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NB 2 hours ago

What is the future of rugby in 2025?

Yes no point in continually penalizing say, a prop for having inadequate technique. A penalty is not the sanction for that in any other aspect of the game!

If you keep the defending 9 behind the hindmost foot and monitor binds strictly on the defending forwards, ample attacking opportunities should be presented. Only penalize dangerous play like deliberate collapses.

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NB 2 hours ago

What is the future of rugby in 2025?

Partly true but all players have their preferences and a diff background of experience. Give players more of what they know and it makes them more likely to succeed!

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NB 2 hours ago

What is the future of rugby in 2025?

He could have started by giving him Randall from the start of games in November F. Spencer and JVP are both good players but not on the saem wavelength as a Porter or Danny Care!

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YeowNotEven 3 hours ago

Springboks dominate in 2024 despite ill-discipline

9 years and no win? Damn. That’s some mighty poor biasing right there.

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Icefarrow 3 hours ago

Every country in the world where you can be paid to play rugby

Semi-professional. A mixture of amateurs and paid players. It's basically NPC for the lower-tier unions.

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NE 4 hours ago

Springboks dominate in 2024 despite ill-discipline

SA has consistently been protected by WR/IRB officials for the past 3 decades. This same protection and bias was also clearly evident in SR when they competed there and SA were never the top SA rugby nation. They went 9 years without winning it before fleeing.

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NE 4 hours ago

Springboks dominate in 2024 despite ill-discipline

Yet more confirmation that you know nothing about the game. Thanks, appreciated.

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BB 8 hours ago

Records show All Blacks' greatest rugby adversary is now Ireland

Absolutely spot on Marc!

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GP 8 hours ago

Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

You and I are never going to agree. He was brilliant in the Final. You just do not like him because he is/was a Crusader.

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JW 10 hours ago

What is the future of rugby in 2025?

I hope that administrators keep it that way and dont go further towards a Rugby League style situation.

Keep? Do you have any idea what league is like? That is what rugby has turned into, not where it's trying to go. The universal body type of mass, the game needs to stop heading towards the physically gifted and go back to its roots of how it's played. Much like how SA are trying to add to their game by taking advantage of new laws.

Why not rather empower teams to choose how they want to play and create a framework that favours neither size nor agility. That favours neither slow tempo play or rock n roll rugby.

That's what's happening, but as Nick suggests the slow tempo team can still too easyily dictate how the fast tempo team can play.