RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

SO the World Rugby Independent Judicial Panel will meet next week to consider misconduct charges against Rassie Erasmus arising from the Lions series. In particular his hour-long video attack on the match officials and his all too frequent appearances as a ‘water boy’ on the field of play, the latter tending to coincide, with monotonous regularity, with important TMO decisions by said officials.
Of course the whole process should have been undertaken much quicker but that doesn’t make next week’s hearing and ruling redundant. The game is crying out for clari...