Champions Cup : le Stade Français « a répondu ensemble », apprécie Gabrillagues

And Argentina should shorten their anthem. It takes way too long for the beat to drop.

Kpoku has far more potential than either of them.

Thats about as far as I’d go in terms of meddling with penalties being awarded for scrums. Perhaps this will force teams to scrum better and play attacking rugby from scrums. But as I write this I don’t like it.

The decision to alter the game should be based on stats.

In the final Test he Boks took scrums instead of lineouts as you could in those days under the law and there were over 60 scrums in the game, none of which ended in penalty.

It gave the Boks a decisive advantage in attack from scrums and wore the ABs down.

I'll deal with the last bit. Many coaches/observeres complain now that it is impossible to cash in on the advanatges of fatigue because the size and strength of benches make it impossible.

By stopping the clock when the ball is no longer 'live' [in all situations not just scrum] you extend meaningful time in the game and make Fatigue an issue once more. No coincidence that the South African method works best with low Ball in Play time!

I hink reffing the scrum is even harder than reffing he BD which is saying something!

You want the contest but you don't want the reset/penalty matrix.

Great point about the side moving backwards not always at fault too. If they go back toegther without committing any obvious offence, why does it result in pen for the stronger team??