Today's rugby headlines as Ellis Genge hits back at Brian Moore and calls made for players to be fined

Here are your rugby headlines for Tuesday, April 26.

All Blacks greats Jeff Wilson John Kirwan have called for players to be personally fined unless they change their tacking behaviour.

Red cards and high tackles are very much on rugby's agenda at the moment, with a raft of sending offs blighting matches in Europe and the southern hemisphere in recent weeks. Despite the punishments and subsequent bans, player behaviour seems to be very slow changing.

Speaking on Sky Sport NZ’s The Breakdown, All Blacks great Jeff Wilson slammed the players for not adapting.

“Once again we suffered, we had a weekend with cards, littered with penalties,” Wilson said. I’m getting frustrated right now because I’m not seeing any changes in behaviours from the players. They are the ones that are responsible. We are quite often putting it on the referees, putting the challenge on them.

“How about the players making some concessions? We are not seeing changes in behaviour. Are we just supposed to get used it? “We expect to see cards every week, it’s unacceptable.”

Fellow All Blacks legend Sir John Kirwan agreed with Wilson, suggesting financial punishment needs to be brought in to get the message through.

“I don’t disagree with you,” Kirwan told The Breakdown . “What do we need to do then? Do we need to start fining players? How are we going to have change? We are continuing to let our game fall into this. You’ve got to plan for it, like you said.”

England prop Ellis Genge has responded to Brian Moore after the former hooker was critical of his interaction with officials during Leicester Tigers' defeat to Harlequins.

Both Genge and Dan Cole could be seen speaking to one of Wayne Barnes' assistants, with Moore not being impressed with what he