Last bastion of amateur rugby?

Time was that tales of gargantuan drunkenness among international rugby union players were the stuff of awe and legend. Witness prop Colin Smart's encounter with a bottle of aftershave after a rare England win in Paris.

These days such escapades are looked on as schoolboy errors. Welsh No. 8 Andy Powell was rewarded for his buggy trip on the M4 with a 15-month driving ban, a £1000 fine, court costs and -- most pertinently -- by being dropped by Wales like a hot potato.

There's no room in modern sport for 'characters'. Discuss.