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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 569042" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>Yes I agree to an extent, but it's become obvious that most props are willing to push things in order to get a jump on the opposition. How many times are scrums re-set at professional level because one side (or even both) have gone early? It seems to happen sometimes multiple times for a single scrum. The Italy v Wales game turned into a bit of a farce because of it. Seeing this is in no-ones best interest, not those that love watching scrummaging, or those who loath it, all it does is eat away at time and bore everyone watching.</p><p></p><p>It's like sprinting. There's no real issues of runners jumping the gun at amateur level, but as soon as you get to professional level it was becoming a real pain, with most 100m races having to be re-set multiple times. They took a hard stance with the laws, and imo it's all the better for the viewer because of it.</p><p></p><p>Edit. I don't think that rugby should follow sprinting and increase early engagements to a penalty, but by reducing the importance of timing the engagement will return scrummaging to a battle of propping ability and strength as opposed to timing, and hopefully reduce the amount of re-sets and incomplete scrums.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 569042, member: 13739"] Yes I agree to an extent, but it's become obvious that most props are willing to push things in order to get a jump on the opposition. How many times are scrums re-set at professional level because one side (or even both) have gone early? It seems to happen sometimes multiple times for a single scrum. The Italy v Wales game turned into a bit of a farce because of it. Seeing this is in no-ones best interest, not those that love watching scrummaging, or those who loath it, all it does is eat away at time and bore everyone watching. It's like sprinting. There's no real issues of runners jumping the gun at amateur level, but as soon as you get to professional level it was becoming a real pain, with most 100m races having to be re-set multiple times. They took a hard stance with the laws, and imo it's all the better for the viewer because of it. Edit. I don't think that rugby should follow sprinting and increase early engagements to a penalty, but by reducing the importance of timing the engagement will return scrummaging to a battle of propping ability and strength as opposed to timing, and hopefully reduce the amount of re-sets and incomplete scrums. [/QUOTE]
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