This thing about footballers diving and falling over....
Falling over with contact from an opponent if a foul, and gains your team an advantage when a foul is awarded. If you fell over in rugby, the game owuld just keep going, hence it is not advantageous to hit the ground in rugby. It's not a case of football players being pansies and falling over, winning a foul is part of the game.
I'll watch rugby ever time 6 nations comes around (whihc is probably just as much as 95% of rugby "fans" out there). It's ok but the game just doesn't flow. If it's not mall, ruck, ruck, hold the game up.... wait for the ball..... wait for it..... wait forit, then it's kick, kick, kick, mistake, penalty. And don't get me started on the scum. What a bizarre forced formation that is. If they got rid of it rugby union would be much better. Inevitably they will have to be reset 3 times before proceeding.
I also feel kicking 3 points for a pentalty is far too easy. Penalties are awarded so frequently, and in today's game they can be kicked from just about anywhere in the opposition's half, completely devaluing the try.
Feel free to challenge these points Charlie, Henry and Rupert.