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Brian Ashton: White-line fever too often ensures good intentions are wasted

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Unhappy union: what has gone wrong with rugby?

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Chris Hewett: A game that once prided itself on behaviour on and off the field has fallen from grace. The reason? It's society's fault, say the RFU.

Peter Bills: Varying punishments for eye-gouging are baffling

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Talking Rugby... When is an eye gouge not an eye gouge? Or to be more specific, when do the rugby authorities take a draconian approach to the offence and when do they feel more tolerant?

Yes they were naughty boys but it's healthy we have an unspoken code

Sunday, 17 April 2011

David Flatman: I do not want to have my eyes gouged or genitals detached during a game.

Ruck and Maul: Saints go marching on as his Masters voice fails to lift Ulsterman

Sunday, 17 April 2011

Rugby supporters have nothing like the reputation of football's, though some may see Saracens as pushing the boundaries of antagonism by staging a "Gathering" before away matches – for example, yesterday, on what the London club called "private land adjacent to the Exeter Chiefs official car park" before a "march on the ground... to give the team a welcome to remember".