Followers of Bath Rugby will have been kept busy these past few weeks and will no doubt be glad the RFU hearing in Messrs Lipman, Crockett and Higgins is over.
Briefly, the three have been banned for 9 months after they were found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute after failing on two occasions to attend drugs tests. (see the links to the right to thisisbath.co.uk for all the news).
Now, being privy as I am to goings on at Bath via the medium of the good old press conference, can I just say two things;
1 - How refreshing it is to have players put up for interview who actually speak their mind and seem passionate about the topic of conversation. Excellent choices by the squad to elect the "famous five" as player representatives - although Joe Maddock, as pleasant as he is, was a little on the quiet side. But then who good blame him when you're sat next to David Barnes and David Flatman.
2 - Well done the RFU for publishing in full the judgements into the Justin Harrision and Lipman/Crockett/Higgins hearings - a journalist's dream. Transparency the order of the day.
Here's to Bath Rugby moving on and putting the whole sorry saga behind it.
Now, who will be named captain?
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