Why Bath’s small wonder George Ford is confounding orthodox thinking | Paul Rees

The fly-half has shown, for country and club, that there is still room for guile and deception, sticking two fingers to those coaches who believe that without power there is no light• Nathan Hughes ban shows danger of ignoring intent in a physical sportThis week sees the start of the final run of Mad Men, a series about a New York advertising agency in a bygone era. The lead character, Don Draper, was this week described by one writer as the very soul of the show: “The facade is always immaculate. It’s only the inside that’s a tumultuous, chaotic, mess.”The state of rugby union at professional…