Stuart Lancaster has the chance to 減少（する） Northampton's '競争の激しい' Dylan Hartley... let's hope he takes it

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By now, the 出来事/事件 is passably familiar. The ruck had 結論するd, there was a small 小競り合い, and without 警告, Dylan Hartley of Northampton and England 粉砕するd his 肘 into the 味方する of Matt Smith’s jaw. The Leicester player 崩壊（する）d, and Hartley was sent off. At which point, 確かな characters in rugby union began to behave 極端に foolishly.

Alan Dickens, who is Northampton’s defence coach, 宣言するd that Hartley was ‘integral to our culture,’ which says something for their ‘culture’. Tom 支持を得ようと努めるd, Hartley’s 同僚 for club and country, 決起大会／結集させるd his 使い果たすd 軍隊s with a fraudulent cry of ‘Let’s do this for Dylan!’

But worse by far was the reaction of Jim Mallinder, the club’s director of rugby. He thought the whole 事件／事情／状勢 was ‘disappointing’. He ‘didn’t think there was any malice in it,’ and he criticised Smith for going 負かす／撃墜する ‘pretty easily’. In 要約, he 宣言するd: ‘It’s a 堅い game, and Dylan plays to the 辛勝する／優位. You won’t change Dylan. He is 競争の激しい.’ He 追加するd: ‘I’m not 説 that what he did was 権利.’

Northampton hooker Dylan Hartley wassuspended for three weeks by the RFU for a wild 肘

Hartley's 出来事/事件 （機の）カム during a ゆらめく-up between Northampton and Leicester players during the first half

Hartley's 肘 was caught by the Television Match 公式の／役人 who 報告（する）／憶測d the 暴力／激しさ to the 審判（をする）

Such a short 声明 to 含む／封じ込める so much specious tosh! There was the 肘 thrown without ‘malice’, the casual defaming of the stricken Smith, the macho garbage about rugby 存在 ‘a 堅い game’, the 受託 that the player is beyond 改革（する）, and that wonderful euphemism ‘競争の激しい’. Belatedly, he realised the ridiculous 人物／姿／数字 he was cutting and 追加するd the risible rider: ‘I’m not 説 that what he did was 権利.’

Now the ‘競争の激しい’ man he was defending has a 確かな 量 of ‘previous’: a 26-week 禁止（する） for 注目する，もくろむ-gouging in 2007, eight weeks for biting in 2012, two weeks for punching in the same year, and 11 weeks for 口頭で 乱用ing a 審判（をする） in 2013. Hartley now has another three-week 禁止（する） to 追加する to his wretched 一致する, the lenient 宣告，判決 明らかに partly 予定 to his 嘆願 of 有罪の. In fairness a not-有罪の 嘆願 might have 刺激するd laughter in 法廷，裁判所.

No 事柄. Hartley is now 利用できる to play in the Six Nations, if the England coach Stuart Lancaster decides to select him. To his 広大な／多数の／重要な credit, Lancaster has never lost touch with the grass roots of the game in schools and clubs.

He is uncomfortably aware that many parents are 深く，強烈に 関心d about exposing their children to the physical dangers of a sport with an ますます thuggish 評判. He is also aware that he has a 責任／義務 to the game wh ich far outweighs all other considerations.

Lancaster has the chance to fulfil that 責任／義務 by 知らせるing Hartley that he has played his last game for England.

I dearly hope he takes it.

Smith (left) and Hartley (権利) have words after the 出来事/事件, as the Leicester man is seen to by a physio

審判（をする） JP Doyle (left) had no choice but to show Hartley a straight red card for his antics

Northampton hooker trudges off despondently after 存在 sent off for his vicious 肘?

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