NOT possessing satellite TV, I haven’t seen as much rugby over the first European weekend as some, but I’m worried after watching the two or three minute highlight reels on the EPCR website.
There’s a new trend creeping in. There was Toulon player trying to convince the referee that his fellow player’s neck-high tackle was across the chest; then there was the Castres scrum-half appealing for a forward pass against Gloucester when Tom Marshall provided the scoring pass to Calum Braley; and it’s not just the French, Henry Slade ws seen beseeching the touch judge ...