International star was sacked after being 'drunk all the time'

“We recruited players who did not want to fight,” said Afflelou in an interview with Midi Olympique, the French bi-weekly rugby newspaper.

“We had brought in the Welsh scrum-half… and I said that we could not play with ‘pochards’ [boozers].

“The guy was drunk all the time. In the aftermath of a stinging defeat in Bayonne, he even arrived drunk at the video session the next day. Not just a little, eh. Seriously drunk. There, I said stop and I fired him.”

He was sacked after knocking out a 21-year-old student in an unprovoked attack in 2016. Bath terminated the flanker’s contract after he pleaded guilty. with Samoa international given a suspended prison sentence for causing actual bodily harm when he was drunk in the city’s SouthGate centre on February 6. Fa’osiliva then went onto join Worcester before hanging up his boots.

Rugby Australia sacked one of its biggest stars in 2019 for a social media post which was critical of gay people. Folau's contract with the Wallabies and his club side Waratahs was terminated after he was found guilty of a "high-level breach of the professional players' code of conduct" over the Instagram and Twitter post.

The winger had his contract terminated by Sale Sharks in 2017 after an internal investigation found that he leaked confidential team information to Bristol before their Premiership game on 1 January. He then headed to France for a season before returning to the Premiership with Newcastle Falcons.

The former Wallabies captain was sacked by his top-tier Japanese rugby club over an alleged assault of a taxi driver on New Year's Eve. The 37-year-old flanker was arrested after he allegedly fled without paying his $110 fare and then hit the driver who chased him. Smith — who played 111 tests for Australia — spent 18 days in custody but prosecutors decided not to indict him. But his club, the premiership-winning Suntory Sungoliath, cancelled his contract.

The Wales A rugby international was sacked by Northampton after being convicted of drink-driving. The 23-year-old Newman, whose contract at Franklins Gardens was due to run out at the end of the season, was shown the door this week after he was banned from driving for 18 months and fined £400 having been found to be nearly twice the legal limit when stopped by police in Bedford in December 2001. Newman went onto play for Ospreys, Glasgow Warriors, Grenoble and London Irish before hanging up his boots.