Views abound. The scrum isn’t a scrum anymore. It’s a restart, a penalty mechanism, an attacking platform, all of them, a cheaters’ charter. The scrum, as it was conceived, with a hooker hooking and straight in, isn’t quite that anymore.
And what it has become has given Ireland pause to think and most others pause to ask what happened against England in Twickenham to the game’s signature set-piece.
On top of the changed laws you have the referee coming in with all sorts of notions that even the specialists in the frontrow cannot always read. On Saturday, that seemed to be …
- March 16, 2022
