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Time to ban the curse of the caterpillar

Fresh calls

NICK CAIN

The stop-watches are in play with a view to speeding-up the game by putting time limits on goal-kickers, setting scrums, forming lineouts, and water breaks.
The new move is overdue, but how come the biggest blight on rugby union – the Caterpillar Ruck – has escaped World Rugby’s watchdogs when it is the worst of all the time-wasting antics? How could World Rugby fail to censure an abomination which allows the ball to be recycled at snail’s pace along a single file caterpillar of extended legs to an untouchable scrumhalf who takes an age to boot it skywards?
It is a zero-sum game ...

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