Frank Hadden Played Quotations

Italy have made so much progress this year and, to be honest, I think they have played better than us in this championship.

I'm so proud. It was a sensational defensive effort. Make no mistake, England played pretty well today, but our defense was magnificent.

We would have liked to give the crowd more to cheer at the other end of the field but it wasn't to be. England actually played extremely well in the first half-hour, which made it all the more rewarding.

I started thinking about South Africa two days after the Italy game in mid-March, that's just the nature of the beast. We've played a lot of physical teams in the last 12 months but this is the ultimate challenge for us physically and we're playing them in their own backyard, so it will be really tough.