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Awful sounding case.
Fairly sure that's been high up the agenda in community rugby since even before the Paddy Jackson case a few years ago. Clearly there is a historic and current drink/drugs, misogyny and general antisocial behaviour problem in the sport (as there is in a lot of male-dominated sports). But it is improving. What doesn't help is when RFU sacks all of its community coaches, the very people you need, as it did a couple of years ago.
While a senior player (age, not ability) at a very amateur club back up in the midlands, I and several other senior players made it very clear to some of the younger guys what was and wasn't acceptable and enforced it where we could - and it made for a better club. But at the end of the day, you can't control individuals when they aren't representing you. In my now much more limited experience of grassroots club rugby (I ride mini c00ps to minis - at her request, not mine), they are going in the right direction. But not quickly enough, judging by Clapham Junction on a Twickenham match day... That was part of what pushed me over to rugby league too.
'Sport' in general needs to face up to its ingrained social problems - see Yorkshire CCC also. But there is far too much brushing of it under what is a pretty big carpet.
From the available info, it does point to a particular player who has some high-profile previous behaviour problems... EDIT - it's not them, but the fella who it is has also had a slightly troubled reputation
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Looks like the rugby community may be forced to take a long hard look at what constitutes acceptable behaviour