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LETTER: World Rugby allows scrums to be boring, dangerous

Jeff Probyn says that it takes a long time to learn the ‘dark arts’ of the scrum while David Flatman claims everyone loves a scrum.

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JEFF Probyn says it takes a long time to learn the ‘dark arts’ of the scrum while David Flatman claims everyone loves a scrum.
Well, not everyone, David.
Regarding Probyn's observation, he means it takes a long time to learn how to cheat effectively in the scrum.
We seem to ignore or, at best, conveniently forget that the scrum was simply a means of restarting the game after one team had made an error.
World Rugby has made scrums a mess and a very time-consuming one ...

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