Rugby's dangerous culture of dissent spreads leaving referees in the firing line MARK REASONSKY SPORTGreg Laidlaw blames Romain Poite for Scotland's loss to Ireland. Have we heard from World Rugby or the Six Nations. They have allowed a creeping culture of dissent to evolve at the top levels of the game. And a conflagration is where this sort of public player dissent can end up, particularly when the commentators rant on, "ridiculous" being a repeated and inappropriate word during the cricket incident. It is long past the time for World Rugby to take remedial action.

Source: Stuff February 12, 2019 01:30 UTC