Ireland’s Rory Best: ‘Italy can steamroller us. They hit probably harder than anyone’

Ireland’s veteran hooker knows the intimidating physical challange that awaits his side against the Azzurri and is taking nothing for granted in the battle for a last-eight place at the Rugby World Cup‘Italy are going to come at us,” warns Rory Best, his sonorous Ulster accent rising and falling like a seesaw. “We know it’s going to be physical. And if we don’t prepare ourselves for that, they’ll steamroller us. This is not just one step up, it’s three or four steps up from what we’ve faced so far at the World Cup.”All front-rowers know what awaits against Italy on Sunday. Few, though, can exp…