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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1012904" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>If scrums aren't being deliberately collapsed, or more accurately a player sees what they can get away with, then the fault must lie in that they are being made inherently unstable. The first point is meant to address the stability by having the front rows already pressing against each other and allowing players to reposition their feet if necessary without the risk of immediately going down. Simple physics, it's easier to maintain stability and push against something if you brace yourself against it and then shove rather than hitting it at pace and trying to shove. Even now teams try to get some advantage in the "hit" which leads to instability and early shoves. The hit was supposed to have been taken out but it hasn't, it's just become shorter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1012904, member: 56232"] If scrums aren't being deliberately collapsed, or more accurately a player sees what they can get away with, then the fault must lie in that they are being made inherently unstable. The first point is meant to address the stability by having the front rows already pressing against each other and allowing players to reposition their feet if necessary without the risk of immediately going down. Simple physics, it's easier to maintain stability and push against something if you brace yourself against it and then shove rather than hitting it at pace and trying to shove. Even now teams try to get some advantage in the "hit" which leads to instability and early shoves. The hit was supposed to have been taken out but it hasn't, it's just become shorter. [/QUOTE]
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