No excuses! South Africa must get a 支配する on 麻薬s

Updated: 20:35 BST, 18 November 2010

South Africa may be the 統治するing world 支持する／優勝者s but they looked shambolically amateur this week, as the sport comes to 条件 with more 肯定的な 麻薬 実験（する）s.

On Monday, the Springboks 確認するd that 支え（る） Chiliboy Ralepelle and wing Bjorn Basson had been sent home after traces of the banned 興奮剤 methylhexaneamine were 設立する in 見本s they 供給するd after the 勝利，勝つ over Ireland in Dublin. 長，率いる coach Pet er de Villiers and his 医療の staff 認める they were at a loss to explain the findings.

Sent home: South Africa's Chiliboy Ralepelle

The episode 明らかにする／漏らすs a 危険に blase 態度 within the South Africa （軍の）野営地，陣営 over a serious 事柄. For many years now, WADA (World Anti-麻薬ing 機関) has rammed home the message of individual 責任／義務, and it has become engrained. After matches, England players will mix up a protein shake with a 瓶／封じ込める of water, but if the 調印（する） is broken, they will discard it. 危険-taking is not an 選択 with careers at 火刑／賭ける.

Professional sport has become littered with hard-luck tales of 関係者s who have been banned after （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they had 単に taken 医薬 or a seemingly innocent 補足（する）. But there has to be a 無-寛容 approach or policing 麻薬 use would become nigh-on impossible.

Rugby must be 警報 to the danger of its 信用性 存在 （名声などを）汚すd - a 運命／宿命 that has befallen cycling and 運動競技のs to an extent. A host of pills and potions are 利用できる to help develop the 力／強力にする and 爆発性の energy the sport 需要・要求するs, and while most are perfectly 合法的な, they have to be continually 監視するd.

実験（する） teams have an array of dieticians and fitness 専門家s at their 処分, so there is no excuse for any lapse. Australian players have 明らかにする／漏らすd they were 警告するd about methylhexaneamine during the 連邦／共和国 Games, so South Africa should have been alive to the danger too. It is also 現職の on players to be aware of what they are taking and not just rely on backroom staff to 保護する them. Basson 反応するd to his 肯定的な 見本 by 説: 'I'm not really 強調する／ストレスing because I know I'm innocent.' That is an alarmingly naive 感情.

Six days on, the memory is still vivid - Ben Youngs' audacious 模造の and dart off his line, Courtney 法律s' brilliant offload and Chris Ashton's scorching 95-metre finish, to leave Drew Mitchell in his vapour 追跡する.

ツバメ Johnson (権利) （人命などを）奪う，主張するd when Northampton wing Ashton 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd off one of England's greatest tries, he was just thinking his players must 支配（する）／統制する the re-start. Fair play to the 経営者／支配人 for his composure, because the 残り／休憩（する） of us were checking replays to see if we had dreamt it. < br />

There have already been in 超過 of 120,000 攻撃する，衝突するs on YouTube for this modern masterpiece, but is it England's best try ever? Email me at the 演説（する）／住所 below to 指名する your favourite.

Samoa chase the 郊外の dream

England's first two 対抗者s in this year's Investec international series - New Zealand and Australia - spent their 各々の weeks in London at the luxurious, five-星／主役にする 王室の Garden Hotel in Kensington.

When the Springboks come to town, they too will be based there. This week, Samoa are staying at the いっそう少なく glitzy, four-星／主役にする Lensbury Hotel in 郊外の Teddington. In previous years, that has been the HQ for Argentina and the 太平洋の Islanders. There appears to be a pattern, with the lesser teams 供給するd with more modest accommodation, which is paid for by the host nation.

However, the RFU 主張する that it is not a sneaky money-saving 手段 and that the Samoans had the 選択 of staying at the 王室の Garden. They chose the 親族 peace and 静かな of south-west London, where 施設s are の近くに at 手渡す, while the SA NZAR nations evidently prefer the brighter lights of the West End.

Andy Robinson has been 温かく 受託するd as an English coach of Scotland after the team's （疑いを）晴らす 改良 under him. But last 週末's wretched 49-3 capitulation to New Zealand has eroded some of the 好意／親善 and he needs a far better match against South Africa tomorrow. It won't take long for his 国籍 to be used as a stick to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 him with if Scotland lose more ground on the 最高の，を越す nations. And he is not alone in feeling the 圧力. Ireland have regressed alarmingly and are next to 直面する the All 黒人／ボイコットs tomorrow. A 激しい 敗北・負かす would leave Declan 腎臓 trying to stop a 法外な 拒絶する／低下する with the World Cup ぼんやり現れるing in 10 months.

The last word

The ugly saga of Keven Mealamu's 極小の 禁止（する） for headbutting En （分泌する為の）腺 captain 吊りくさび Moody has already been 演説（する）／住所d in this column, but the 結果 of his 控訴，上告 審理，公聴会 last Friday cannot be ignored.

The All 黒人／ボイコットs hooker had been let off with an 初期の four-week 中断 - half the recommended '関税' - but on 控訴，上告 it was 減ずるd to a fortnight. A パネル盤 of three decided there was no 証拠 of 意図, which is palpable nonsense. Their 要約 bleated about '説得力のある mitigating factors and the absence of 悪化させるing factors'.

More nonsense. The New Zealand 管理／経営 should 直面する a disrepute 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 for trying to ハイジャック（する） the disciplinary 過程 with public whining about an 不公平な 罰. They 棒 roughshod over the system and the IRB-任命するd judicial パネル盤 許すd them to do so. This was a pathetic 降伏する which will encourage the Kiwis to believe that they can manipulate the system again.