For too long rugby has placed itself on the moral high ground, too often sneering at the supposedly barbarian ways of football. It is complete hokum but there are many in the union code who like to see the sports as different, the ruffians’ game played by gentlemen and all that. That pompous stance has been under strain for some while now. And here we are again. The French laissez-faire way or the respectfully hushed tones of these isles? It is one or the other. You cannot have it both ways.