Kurtley Beale saga: the ARU may not have learnt its lesson | Words: Rajiv Maharaj

Among the fall-guys there are some who have emerged with credit from the saga, while there are still lessons to be learnedOpinions will be divided for some time on the Kurtley Beale saga, which mercifully came to an end late on Friday when an independent code of conduct tribunal fined him $45,000 for sending an inappropriate text and image to former Wallabies team business manager Di Patston in June. The tribunal cleared Beale of subsequently sending far more serious and lewd texts after IT forensics on his phone proved otherwise. On balance, it was a fair decision; there was insufficient evid…