No more scrums...WTH?

It’s pathetic. They’re trying to turn it into Rugby League. 

They would do us all a massive favor if they just went back to the rules in 1965. Almost everything they have done since then has taken skill out of the game……hooking, lineout jumping, center on center/wing on wing contests, cross kicks, dribbling, drop kicks. The ball carrying which used to be backline dominated has now been replaced with boring forward phase running.

Altogether it’s a lesser game, admittedly played by more professional athletes.

Hehe, give Rassie and the Boks their due - they've completely rattled the establishment.

I thought the law change was that you could not take a scrum after fielding a free kick (as Damian Willemse did in the R WC QF against France) . . . which hardly ever happens so shouldn't be a big deal.

These are the amendments:

Law 20: Options at a penalty or free-kick

20.3 A team awarded a penalty or a free kick may instead choose a scrum.

20.4 i. A team awarded a penalty or free-kick at a lineout may instead choose a lineout or a scrum at the same mark.
ii. A team awarded a free-kick at a lineout may instead choose a lineout at the same mark.

Scrum options table in Law 19.1 (row 4) would also be amended “Scrum option from a FK/Penalty"

Still telling that one of the Bokke's key strengths is being negated in the name of speeding up the game...it's rugby, why the constant need to fix something that's not broken?...did the scrum off the Willemse mark vs France really trigger such an overreaction?

The fact is that I am against too many scriums being used in matches - because it turned the S A game to bcome Tight 5 extensions by coaches since 1992.    The norm developed that  1 or often 2 loosies were selected to be extentions of the Tight 5 and not loose orwards in the true sense of the word.    Typical examples were Rossouw at 8 and Alberts at  7 - both were way too slow to be regarded as proper loosies.    That caused selecion of teams and playing of `10 man rugby - since the looosies could not be used in playing attacking rugby.    

Erasmus found another way to pick players.a loosies.  He asked the Stormres and Lions to try out Du Toit and Mostert at 7 since they have pace and could be successful loosies also becoming part of attacking rugby.   Mostert  failed miserably and his selection became a fringe player - mostly used from the bench, 

I like what I saw from Roos at 8 - he is physically strong - but pacy and  having ball sense as well.   In essense the move by Erasmus has been to look at alternative and faster loosies that could tie up with backlines in attacking moves,    The appointment of Browne as attack coach indicates that as a meas to brig the loosies forward as part of attacks by the backline.

That being said the scrium issue will become an issue when opposing teams abuse the use of short-arm penalties ahead of scrums and I do not think that rule will work out if teams deliberately abuse the new rule.    ,   .   .                    

Well, you can still call a scrum from a straight arm penalty. But it is strange request. How many scrums are there really in games. How much time does it take up. 

Scrums are a huge part of rugby. Now we won't be able to tell the difference between league and rugby anymore. Same stupid, run crash, run, crash, run crash. 

These fools are delusional to think that it will be all out free flowing rugby. We've seen how well teams are defending these days. 

There is nothing wrong with stoppages 

Mole hills my arse...totally unnecessary law changes wrt the scrums...