More like 3rd and 5 eights or some load of baloney made up rugby speak to try and intellectualise a game which ironically through major head trauma stupifies its main protagonists and keeps spastics in their jobs in the Irish Times.
Probably because he’s not a sex offender. Innocent until proven guilty. Also, reading between the lines, there’s a chance someone else may be. There’s no way they’d play him if they thought he was, ahem, going down.