JEFF PROBYN

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

Why the scrum is having to fight to stay a part of the game seems to me to be a result of a failure of coaches to be able to adapt and use it in how they want to play the game now.
It’s also a failure of World Rugby to understand the need to reverse some of the decisions they have put in place that have created the problem of delays and resets at virtually every international game while taking away a lot of the competition in the game that the scrum had previously showcased.
Part of the problem I think comes from players no longer being able to l...