Manu Tuilagi in more hot water with Twickenham after World Cup debacle

England's desperate World Cup campaign continues to throw up more casualties, with a report that Manu Tuilagi will face more disciplinary action for his breach of equipment regulations during the pool game against Georgia. The Leicester centre, who was fined £3,000 by the Rugby Football Union and earned a police caution for "disorderly behaviour" after jumping from a ferry in Auckland harbour after England had been eliminated from the tournament, is to attend an RFU hearing within 10 days to answer a charge relating to a breach of the Elite Player code of conduct, according to the Times. In the Dunedin game Tuilagi wore a rogue, branded mouthguard, for which the RFU was fined £5,000 by the International Rugby Board. If found guilty, the Samoa-born 20-year-old would expect a warning and a fine to cover the union's outlay. It also reported that Lewis Moody, the England captain who has since retired from Test rugby, and Northampton's lock Courtney Lawes, have already been fined £10,000 each by the RFU for wearing rogue mouthguards during the quarter-final defeat by France. Again the sum mirrors the fines imposed by the IRB, which warned the England camp to expect bigger sanctions for repeat offences after the Tuilagi case. Both players have appealed.