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<blockquote data-quote="Dunhookin" data-source="post: 837100" data-attributes="member: 74570"><p>I suspect many like you Mole with a blend of cynicism and no experience of how much better the game flows with proper functioning scrums, will be indifferent to the current scrum debacle. Your 10% interest assessment may reflect the concern level with your generation - but it will be much higher with those who been rugbymen for decades. </p><p></p><p>A recent view of how well scrums can function can be seen in RWC 2015. Watch the Japanese scrummage, their hooker is a class act, an effective combination of technique and speed. He strikes the ball in channel 1 and it's gone out the back in half a second. Supremely efficient and it's fast ball - eminently usable - watch how the Japanese use it. </p><p></p><p>Contrast that with the slow useless dross produced by bent feeding - the players' body language says everything, they're not interested in it - they're coached to screw penalties from scrums - the ball is an irrelevance. </p><p></p><p>The key point about insisting on straight feeding is not to foster a grunt and sweat pushing contest - that simply wouldn't work with equally matched packs. The point is to re-skill the hooker - which will make scrums what they should be - a contest for possession. The Japanese showed in RWC15 the merits, fast ball, scrums over and done with in a fraction of the time and much lower penalty count. </p><p></p><p>Also - allowing bent feeding is blatantly ignoring a fundamental law of our game. Such a laissez faire attitude has caused disastrous consequences for our scrum - so were that attitude to continue, what else shall we allow to be ignored? Are bent lineouts the next mess in waiting? Ignore forward passes...? </p><p></p><p>Bent feeding is a disaster for our game, completely disrespecting the core values of our scrum and de-skilling the game at the same time. WR have an agenda about it - which should be publicised so those behind it can be called to account.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dunhookin, post: 837100, member: 74570"] I suspect many like you Mole with a blend of cynicism and no experience of how much better the game flows with proper functioning scrums, will be indifferent to the current scrum debacle. Your 10% interest assessment may reflect the concern level with your generation - but it will be much higher with those who been rugbymen for decades. A recent view of how well scrums can function can be seen in RWC 2015. Watch the Japanese scrummage, their hooker is a class act, an effective combination of technique and speed. He strikes the ball in channel 1 and it's gone out the back in half a second. Supremely efficient and it's fast ball - eminently usable - watch how the Japanese use it. Contrast that with the slow useless dross produced by bent feeding - the players' body language says everything, they're not interested in it - they're coached to screw penalties from scrums - the ball is an irrelevance. The key point about insisting on straight feeding is not to foster a grunt and sweat pushing contest - that simply wouldn't work with equally matched packs. The point is to re-skill the hooker - which will make scrums what they should be - a contest for possession. The Japanese showed in RWC15 the merits, fast ball, scrums over and done with in a fraction of the time and much lower penalty count. Also - allowing bent feeding is blatantly ignoring a fundamental law of our game. Such a laissez faire attitude has caused disastrous consequences for our scrum - so were that attitude to continue, what else shall we allow to be ignored? Are bent lineouts the next mess in waiting? Ignore forward passes...? Bent feeding is a disaster for our game, completely disrespecting the core values of our scrum and de-skilling the game at the same time. WR have an agenda about it - which should be publicised so those behind it can be called to account. [/QUOTE]
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