CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

IF WE take the Book of Ecclesiastes as our guide – ancient though it may be, it makes far more sense than anything handed down to us recently by World Rugby, the non-governing governing body – the scrum has little to fear from current attempts to tweak it out of existence. “What has been done will be done again,” says the relevant verse. “There is nothing new under the sun.”
In other words, the lawmaking class has been going after the scrum for as long as the scrum has existed. And guess what? The set-piece is still with us, to the extent that South Africa, ...