Rugby union: talking points from the Premiership’s weekend action

Steve Diamond crossed the line between aggression and chaos, Saints stunned Exeter and Ben Te’o made his mark

Steve Diamond. Discuss. Sometimes his bracing approach to life yields results, as when his team played with focus and fury to win at Gloucester. There is a long line of coaches in sport who have secured their legend through what has become known as “the old school”. But it is not a simple pact, the line fine between aggression and chaos. The director of rugby’s fracas after the match with the journalist Sam Peters, whom he invited “outside” – still furious over an article written in September – suggests he cannot help himself. What he thought he was going to achieve in a room full of journalists, or even just outside it, is anybody’s guess. Dignity was not the winner. Michael Aylwin

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