Writing in The Scotsman, Allan Massie addresses the issues of cheating in the modern game.
"It's not a word most of us like to use – particularly where our own team is concerned. Pushing the laws to the limit or even bending the law are more acceptable terms. Often indeed this is fair enough. We don't, I suppose, think of the flanker who flirts, or does more than flirt, with the offside line as a cheat, and not only because this has always happened and some of our favourite players – John Jeffrey and Finlay Calder, for example – have been masters of this practice. I'm not sure if we even think of the scrum-half who doesn't put the ball into the scrum straight as a cheat – if only because there isn't a single scrum-half who regularly abides by the law.
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