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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1012902" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Extra changes! Because why not.</p><p></p><p>1) Get rid of the pseudo hit that still exists in the scrum. New calls of crouch, brace & engage. Crouch is the same, brace is the bind and the 2 teams push lightly on to each other so they are engaged but just taking each others weight, not pushing. When the ref says engage the scrumhalf has 5 seconds to put the ball in. Neither side can fully shove until the ball has been fed in.</p><p>2) If the scrum collapses without any significant forward momentum (eg the 8 crossing over the mark) then it is a free kick to the attacking team.</p><p>3) If the scrum collapses after significant forward momentum then it is a penalty.</p><p>4) Opposition 9 must stay on their side of the scrum</p><p>5) Any of the back row is allowed to pick up the ball and break from the scrum</p><p></p><p>The thoughts behind this is trying to rebalance the scrum. Make the punishments too hard and teams will only use it to try to milk penalties, too lenient and teams will collapse it all the time. Any change to benefit one team will always make it worse for the other team. My hope is that by having the opposition 9 more out of the way and allowing the flankers to pick up the ball, it creates additional tactical options to increase the incentive to get the ball out of the scrum. Likewise reducing the penalty to a free kick if there is no go forward should hopefully reduce the chance of very evenly matched scrums duking it out trying to get penalties rather than getting the ball out. However if one team has a clearly dominant scrum, they will still be able to get a penalty from it by generating forward momentum. Obviously you could then get an issue where teams argue whether significant ground was made or not to determine if a penalty should be awarded or not.</p><p></p><p>It just seems that the way to fix scrums is to make it more attractive to get the ball out and run with it, which means making the scrum a good way of freeing up more space somehow.</p><p></p><p>Additional:</p><p>6) Kicks from a mark cannot go out on the full</p><p></p><p>Just feel it's a bit too safe now, nearly 1/2 of the pitch you wouldn't want to kick to because of the mark. I don't want to get rid of the mark otherwise it will be constant kicks to the 22 but I do want to make it a little less safe so a player has to weigh up the benefit of calling a mark and having time to make a kick over the fact he can no longer kick it out on the full, and will more likely have to keep it infield.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1012902, member: 56232"] Extra changes! Because why not. 1) Get rid of the pseudo hit that still exists in the scrum. New calls of crouch, brace & engage. Crouch is the same, brace is the bind and the 2 teams push lightly on to each other so they are engaged but just taking each others weight, not pushing. When the ref says engage the scrumhalf has 5 seconds to put the ball in. Neither side can fully shove until the ball has been fed in. 2) If the scrum collapses without any significant forward momentum (eg the 8 crossing over the mark) then it is a free kick to the attacking team. 3) If the scrum collapses after significant forward momentum then it is a penalty. 4) Opposition 9 must stay on their side of the scrum 5) Any of the back row is allowed to pick up the ball and break from the scrum The thoughts behind this is trying to rebalance the scrum. Make the punishments too hard and teams will only use it to try to milk penalties, too lenient and teams will collapse it all the time. Any change to benefit one team will always make it worse for the other team. My hope is that by having the opposition 9 more out of the way and allowing the flankers to pick up the ball, it creates additional tactical options to increase the incentive to get the ball out of the scrum. Likewise reducing the penalty to a free kick if there is no go forward should hopefully reduce the chance of very evenly matched scrums duking it out trying to get penalties rather than getting the ball out. However if one team has a clearly dominant scrum, they will still be able to get a penalty from it by generating forward momentum. Obviously you could then get an issue where teams argue whether significant ground was made or not to determine if a penalty should be awarded or not. It just seems that the way to fix scrums is to make it more attractive to get the ball out and run with it, which means making the scrum a good way of freeing up more space somehow. Additional: 6) Kicks from a mark cannot go out on the full Just feel it's a bit too safe now, nearly 1/2 of the pitch you wouldn't want to kick to because of the mark. I don't want to get rid of the mark otherwise it will be constant kicks to the 22 but I do want to make it a little less safe so a player has to weigh up the benefit of calling a mark and having time to make a kick over the fact he can no longer kick it out on the full, and will more likely have to keep it infield. [/QUOTE]
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