Reply: RI: Re: [RUGBYLIST] meta di punizione o tecnica

[gaetano.palmiotto a fastwebnet.it]

Direi che il mondo anglosassone, nuova zelanda inclusa, la pensa diversamente dall'arbitro italiano.....

New Zealand Herald - "Wyatt Crockett had a big fork stuck in him by Martin Castrogiovani. The big Italian prop, looking more like a base player from a grunge band, educated young Crockett in the ways of the dark arts. 
It was man versus boy. It was car meeting truck. It was really quite hard to watch at times. In the last five minutes the Italians were toying with the All Blacks. Down they'd slam and the All Blacks would crumple. On it would go until Neemia Tialata was sent to the bin. The Italians could only wonder why they weren't awarded a penalty try. They deserved one. They deserved something more for the control they were exerting".

Indipendent - "Martin Castrogiovanni gave another peerless scrummaging performance to help Italy take the Ali Blacks' second team down to the wire in this historic Test match in Milan". 

Indipendent - "It is a long time since a New Zealand pack have been so humiliated for such a prolonged speli near their own line. The Italians were incensed by Dickinson's display, and rightly so. He alone saved the Ali Blacks". 

Scrum.com - "Henry demanded more clarity in the "grey" scrum laws after Italian prop Martin Castrogiovanni's demolition job on Wyatt Crockett".

Planetrugby.com - "Bledisloe Cup holders New Zealand were also comprehensively beaten up front and in the aforementioned scrums by Leicester's destroyer Martin Castrogiovanni alongside experienced loosehead Salvatore Perugini". 

Stuff.co.nz - "When coach Graham Henry lamented the spectacle at San Siro Stadium yesterday he was right, but he forgot his opposition had set out to achieve very different goals. [...] The challenge must be to create more tries from the set piece. Against Italy that was difficult because the scrum was being shunted around by Italy's two outstanding props, Martin Castrogiovanni and Salvatore Perugini". 

The Mirror - "The All Blacks were repeatedly penalised for turning a series of scrums at the end of the contest. Italy were unfortunate not to be awarded a penalty try after a surging run from Parisse put them within reach of the try line".

Times online - "[...]with news that Martin Castrogiovanni and the Italian scrum laid waste to New Zealand in Milan yesterday".

Planetrugby.com - "Stuart Dickinson, a man that always appears to the spectator to have a different copy of the Laws to anyone else in the game, transmogrified himself from his usual petty pedantry, to absolute craven cowardice. In short, he bottled it, and not for the first time at this level.
The reason? As the All Blacks crumpled against a far superior scrum they conceded seven red zone penalties. Try as they might to deliberately wheel, disrupt and prevaricate, the All Blacks were destroyed as the Italian pack showed more power than their national Government has ever managed, ripping the All Blacks apart as they relentlessly pushed to the try line.
Dickinson allowed the All Blacks to get away with murder; there's little doubt if the All Blacks had been pressing like that then he'd have run under the posts. As it was Tialata got a deserved yellow, but there were other cards that should have been dealt out, notably to the AB blindside flank for deliberately detaching and handling. Italy walked away with nothing thanks to Stu, a lot less than they deserved".