In his column in the New Zealand Herald, Wynne Gray mocks Peter de Villiers before issuing a reminder to card-happy referees that rugby is a man's game.
"A crackdown on thuggery is fine. Those who have watched some of the antics of men like Bakkies Botha cannot condone their actions.
"But the game has become too sanitised at test level.
"People go on about setting examples for children but international rugby is not a game for kids. It is brutal, it is played on the edge, sometimes tempers fray.
"If a couple of blokes square off and throw a couple of punches, so what. They will sort it out. They don't need the ref to send them to the naughty chair."
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