In the immediate aftermath of the defeat against Wales, Italy head coach Kieran Crowley didn’t hold back in his assessment of the match officials.
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He said; “How can a team give away 17 penalties and not be warned once?”
“Five or six of those were on their own line. The non-awarding of the penalty try to us in the first half, it was their number ten was offside when he tackled.”
“Then they didn’t even review the two guys who cleaned out were tackled in the back field when we broke.”
“There’s a lot of bloody frustration.”
Afterward, Crowley proceeded to emphasize the missed opportunities made by his team due to their own errors, before the topic of officiating was raised once more.
“You’ve got to go through the right channels but I don’t know but I am sick of going through the right channels and getting a response of oh we’re sorry we got it wrong.”
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