PAUL REES INVESTIGATES THE BIG DIVIDE SPLITTING THE GAME: HIGH-SCORING ROMPS OR A FEAST OF DRIVING MAULS

IN THE run-up to last weekend’s Champions Cup encounter with Saracens in Galway, Stuart Lancaster raised concerns over the impact law tweaks were having on the driving maul. Connacht had conceded four tries from the manoeuvre against Glasgow, which prompted their head coach to speak out, and two in Treviso the previous week.
The start of the season has thrown up two debates. The first is that the value of tries are being eroded by inflation because there are so many of them ...