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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 615052" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>IMO, its a case of copy cat behaviour or <em>monkey see - monkey do</em> if you like...Its the same thing that leads to soccer players taking a dive if an opponent so much as touches them. They see other players do it, and successfully, so they do it too.</p><p></p><p>(Just as an aside, I notice that this feigning injury to get a penalty is beginning to rear its ugly head in rugby as well, especially in France, so I hope the iRB stands on it big time. Any player caught feigning/simulating needs to have the disciplinary system smash them down with an effing big hammer, followed by a long suspension.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 615052, member: 20605"] IMO, its a case of copy cat behaviour or [I]monkey see - monkey do[/I] if you like...Its the same thing that leads to soccer players taking a dive if an opponent so much as touches them. They see other players do it, and successfully, so they do it too. (Just as an aside, I notice that this feigning injury to get a penalty is beginning to rear its ugly head in rugby as well, especially in France, so I hope the iRB stands on it big time. Any player caught feigning/simulating needs to have the disciplinary system smash them down with an effing big hammer, followed by a long suspension.) [/QUOTE]
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