{"ParsedResults":[{"TextOverlay":{"Lines":[],"HasOverlay":false,"Message":"Text overlay is not provided as it is not requested"},"TextOrientation":"0","FileParseExitCode":1,"ParsedText":"as it is now, this is quite unnecessary\r\nand extremely selfish.\r\nI would be grateful if you could\r\nmake my feelings, and those of many\r\nothers, known in your magazine.\r\nT.J. CHIN-MM. CHAAAN.\r\n*LESWADERFC.BEOS.\r\nDm• stüÜ?\r\nEXTENDED feature on\r\nviolence in the game in the January\r\nissue was both welcome and timely.\r\nHowever, I still feel that the English\r\nauthorities tend to regard this as a\r\nproblem Which should he solved\r\nelsewhere as it only really applies\r\nto the southern hemisphere, France\r\nand Wales. This is nonsense.\r\nIn all the thousands of words\r\nI have read and heard atN)ut the\r\nRodbernremain affair, it was not\r\nuntil Steve Bale'S article in the January\r\nissue that Saw anyone point out that\r\nWas only on the pitch because\r\nDean Ryan had broken his hand\r\nwhile punching an opponent. (Why,\r\nincidentally, is a side allowed to\r\nreplace a player who injures himself\r\nin this way?) I have seen no mention\r\nof any disciplinary action being taken\r\nagainst Ryan, although Jack Rowell,\r\nhis manager, has since written in your\r\ncolumns that: \"The sooner we get to\r\nthe stage where a punch is a punch\r\nand deemed unacceptable in our sport,\r\nthe better as far as I am concerned. \"\r\nA few years before I was born,\r\nmy father was at Twickenham when\r\nCyril Brmvnlie of New Zealand\r\nbecame the first player to be sent off\r\nin an international match. My father\r\noften told me that although Brmvnlie\r\ndeserved to go, he should have been\r\naccompanied by an English forward.\r\nHe wasn't, and the England player,\r\nfar from lying punished, eventually\r\nbecame president of the Rugby\r\nFootball Union.\r\nSixty-seen years later, when\r\nplaying against North Harbour for\r\na largely English British Lions side,\r\nDean Richards stamped on Frank\r\nBunce and left him needing I stitches\r\nin his head. Far from being punished,\r\nRichards Was Vigorously defended\r\nby Geoff Cooke and on his next\r\naplxarancx, against Canterbury, was\r\nmade captain. It seems that some\r\nthings never change. No wonder the\r\nFrench accuse us of double standards.\r\nU. GROOM, HADLEIGH. ES\"X.\r\nOUR CAME seems to be corning in\r\nfor a bit of stick recently, especially\r\nin comparison with rugby league.\r\nI quite enjoy watching rugby\r\nleague, but I do find it slightly\r\nrepetitious: five tackles and kick,\r\nthen another five tackles and kick,\r\nwhere generally the ball is inst\r\nkicked as far downfield as vxjssible.\r\nIn rugby union we have a variety.\r\nWe have \"proper\" scrums, line Outs,\r\nforward drives, rucks, mauls, passing\r\nand kicking. In our game we can also\r\nwin the ball from the opposition,\r\nwhereas in league you generally have\r\nto wait for the kick or the handover,\r\nafter Six tackles.\r\nI think Our game is fine, generally,\r\nalthough there are proba bly too many\r\npenalties. For example, what does it\r\nmatter which hand you use in a line\r\nout so long as you do not interfere\r\nwith the opposition, and if the ball is\r\ncoming back on one Side Of a ruck\r\nand gets why Can it not be\r\nhelvxd back by hand? It is a handling\r\ngame, and it may prevent the\r\ninjudicious(?) use of the boot.\r\nThe two games cannot really\r\ncompared as they are different games,\r\nand long they remain\r\nCOLIN BARæTT, BERKS.\r\nProtecuve\r\nI WAS interested to read the short\r\nNewsdesk item in your December\r\nissue on the subject of protective\r\ngarments and illegal padding. I was\r\nyet more interested to watch the last\r\nthree matches Of the r&xnt South\r\nAfrican tour (v Scotland, Wales and\r\nthe Barbarians) and to note that the\r\nmaioriry of Springboks sported\r\npadded shoulders.\r\nAlso, at the end ('f the Scotland\r\ngame Pieter Müller was swapping\r\nhis shirt and sporting a double\r\nshoulder support of the that\r\nextends the full length of the ribcage.\r\nIs this padding legal or is it\r\na case Of one law for the domestic\r\nand another for the elite of the\r\ninternational set? 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