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If you are going to play prop you need to train for the scrum. To be a good scrumager you need to be confident have good technique and being strong helps. Then there is lifting in the lineouts. You will need timing, good technique again and upper body strength. Your backrow experience will be...

I am no expert but if I was you I wouldn't be to concerned about your weight but consecrate on your techniques and rugby skills. My friend was a small hoover but he was a good one. He had good technique and rugby skill and a big heart.

Is the line out on halfway a recent thing? I played rugby for 25 years and when the ball went out on the full from a kick off we only ever had 2 options scrum or kick off again.

That's reasonable

Why do you like to change rugby all the time ?

Lol

Eh?

That was once in over 25 years. If you want to call people names did it face to face not behind a keyboard we are not hear for name calling. You want there so you don't know how it happen and to compare it to driving down the wrong way on a motorway is stupid.

The pack take too long to bind together. They should have a time limit on the scrum bind at higher levels. At lower level where fitness level are low this should be ignored. 30 -45 seconds should be plenty of time.

You can't drive before the ball goes in. If you have the better scrum and you are going forward the the 9 puts in you might as well just feed the ball.

Well let's just agree to disagree

So there would be no penalty try for a collapsed scrum stopping a push over try?

I guess. Why do you think foul play in a scrum should only be a free kick and not a pen?

Not defending it I am just saying it happens and I have done it once myself. I was just going against what you said.

There wasn't anything desperate about my actions. I was in control of the situation. He was trying to hinge the scrum to bring it down on his own under pressure trying to stop the drive. Maybe because I have played front row longer you I have seen a bit more. I have played for over 25 years...

People do bring the scrum down. They do it for a few reasons. If they can't take the pressure of a scrum it goes down. If a scrum is going backward the scrum goes down. Myself has brought a scrum down because the other prop was trying to hinge so I put the scrum down and he didn't try it...

That is a good idea. Just been watch the rugby today and I thought the refs did a good job with the scrums to day.

The ref needs to be harder on players who bring the scrum down. There is know need for the scrum to go down. Maybe that will solve the problem over time.

The difference would be you will not be losing playing time to the scrum.

I have only played rugby at a low level I have never seen a scrum take as long as it does at top level.