IT IS often a sure sign of common sense flying out of the window when we become obsessed with the literal definitions of words such as ‘institutionalised’ and in rugby’s case ‘reckless’.
As a former referee I fully accept that the advent of the TMO whether deliberate or not relieved an element of control/ management of the game from the referee.
In conjunction with some of the mind boggling tinkering/dismantling of the basics of rugby union and its laws, we now find ourselves in a situation where we are reduced to scouring dictionaries for the expla...