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Intent does factor into criminal law you know... the intent in a rugby tackle isn't actually to hurt someone, but Healey's attack was something clearly done maliciously and with intent to hurt. And he's got a pretty bad track record when it comes to malicious play.

Ireland undeserving winners, ref did a great job (for them). Hope Healey gets a very long ban.

Thats got to be a red, disgusting play

Not very sporting from Ireland kicking towards the injured French player...

So much bias around how the rucks are being reffed. Hate the cynical Irish tactic of loitering around in front of their own players doing little blocks and obstructions, especially around the rucks.

Excellent game from both teams and NZ showed why they are the best team in the world. Was surprised it took them so long to stop kicking it to Vunipola at the restarts! Youngs had a shocker when he came on, Tomkins and Ashton weren't up to international standard at all. Don't want to see...

The thing that annoys me about the Mandela coverage is the nostalgic back-patting nature of it - he was a great guy, he did great things etc etc. There is plenty of nastiness going on in the world which gets zero mainstream media coverage, instead of using Mandela's illness to spark a debate...

And the best way to stop the sport being like that is to penalize punches far more severely than swearing at the ref.

I don't think it was anything like a punch by Farrell tbh. I wouldn't say what he did to Brits was cracking at all either. Neither Walsh nor the TMO mentioned Farrell as well. Nothing wrong with applauding a player getting sent off when you've just got punched in the face - honestly so many...

lol I dunno why all this hate on Farrell, and amazed that people are suggesting he should have got a yellow, all he did was push/trip Brits over, which is far better than a punch in the head! Fascinated by that call by Walsh given what I was saying about the Hartley card and big games last...

The irony is with that sort of alleged swearing at the ref, nobody sees it or hears about it unless Barnes gives a red card for it. So how will an offense that nobody notices encourage people to do something that they don't know happened (if Barnes thinks 'its a final, things didn't go his way...

I don't think the kick was the issue, the ref report shows most of Hartley's comments came around the scrums. I dunno why again another person is suggesting I hang around places where it happens frequently. It is completely the opposite!!! I am saying that in high profile sporting finals, if...

THis is absolutely mad! Every time I say something about ONE player swearing ONCE at a ref in a ONE OFF FINAL you immediately start mentioning football and loads of players surrounding the referee, almost making physical contact with him and screaming and swearing all the time. Its not an issue...

The Referee‟s report stated: “Following the award of a penalty out of a scrum, the Northampton hooker looked towards me and said: "You f***ing cheat". Approximately two minutes before this incident, I had called the Player across and told him to think about the way he was speaking to me. I...

I'm not though, what happened to Hartley will probably happen in an important international game, people will kick up a fuss, and the rules will be relaxed. As soon as a national rugby union looks like they're gonna lose lots of money off a little bit of swearing, they'll kick up a fuss and the...

I dunno, Heaslip's kneeing in NZ and Tulagi on Ashton both had far more potential for damage. THen we look to the SH and all these NZ and Aus players are running around naked, beating people in public up and in AA and people seem to accept that they're ill, vunerable, victims etc. And then there...

But I wouldn't, because I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL PLAYER. Its just silly and misleading to call it an attitude problem. Unfortunately for Hartley, he falls into the gap (that is sporting and societal wide) where his behavior is considered 'bad', but not bad enough to have a legitimate problem...

I hope the Americans manage to focus on producing rugby players rather than athletes. I imagine that if rugby takes of commercially over there, they'll be more than a few college players taking an erasmus year or three to TCD/UCD, Hartpury, Cardiff on someone elses coin. I think that financial...

Is it likely that Cotter wants the AB job someday and is going for Scotland to get some international coaching experience? The Scottish head coach must be one of the most difficult around - I wonder how much they can improve on Robinsons win records against the SH sides... Unless someone puts...

lol. Now a 17 stone bloke punching someone as hard as they can is 'weak' and 'never life threatening'. Great! I'm sure every red blooded rugby player would take a punch like that from Tulagi just for lols! But we'd better all watch out for those moral evils of talking back to the ref, massive...