hi Paul

The Italians had been warned about deliberately holding on to the ball in the rucks. The referee had made it clear that the next offence would be sin-binned.

In fact Castrogiovanni committed THREE offences in tyhat ruck. He was offside, came in from the side and lay over the ball preventing the opposition from playing it. So I dopn't think he could have any complaints.

As for Moody's offence although you are right it could cause injury, according to the laws of the game is was not a sending off offence.

We saw from the Scotland game very graphically that serious injury can occur in apparently safe circumstances. I am pleased to see that Tom Evans is responding well to treatment and I wish him a speedy and total recovery.

cheers

MikeL2