THIS column does try to keep on the ball, but I have scrum sensational news about a competition prize I am now offering.

I have teamed up with Italian food producer’s Sacla’ in Beaconsfield to offer five lucky readers their own personal version of Wasps rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio.

Sacla’ contacted me last week to say they had 18 life-sized cardboard cut-outs of the great man to celebrate the launch of his new range of Italian slow-baked tomatoes.

So if you wish to convert this idea into a great prize, then all you have to do is to tackle a simple question below.

If you win, you can nip down to the Sacla’ office and pick up your own Lawrence for free – there is no penalty for entering. Staff will also allow you to taste his new tomatoes.

Sacla’ kindly mailed one for our office to give us an example, and he’s had a field day in our newsroom.

Indeed, he caused a pack of staff around my desk on Thursday when he touched down in the post and they caused quite an obstruction to us hitting deadline.

Cardboard Lawrence may be a prop but he is eerily real and I keep jumping out of my skin every time I turn around and see him there.

I’ve already toyed with the idea of getting him to write this column in my absence because he’d be able to adapt nicely to my cardboard prose.

l Prize question: How many rugby puns (good or bad) are contained in the above piece?

The winners will be the readers who find the most, and they can be as tenuous as you like. Email your answers to sfarr@london.newsquest.co.uk or write to Simon Farr at Bucks Free Press Loudwater Mill, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP10 9TY.

Normal competition rules apply and the editor’s indecision is final.