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Saying sorry is the easiest thing for players trying to dodge a ban

DESPITE abuse from some old players who seem stuck in a time warp, Jerome Garces deserves to be congratulated for doing exactly what World Rugby demand of their top referees, showing no mercy to those guilty of hits to the head. How odd that the same hard-line policy does not seem to apply to the judicial panels appointed by the same World Rugby organisation.
The three-man tribunal found Scott Barrett guilty as charged of what they saw as an offence requiring a six-week ban.
Instead they let the All Black second row off with three because he pleaded guilty and had an otherwise ‘exempl...

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