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New Scrum: Who will be favored?
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 661141" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>BUMP </p><p></p><p>the article and most people seemed to think the absence of the "hit" and new scrum rules would benefit smaller, more technical guys and disadvantage the bigger, larger specimens. After some time with the new laws, who would you say you feel has really benefited from this ? I feel a lot of the larger guys have, Debaty, Ducalcon, Figallo, Mike Ross, Geoff Cross, Carl Hayman, Kepu. I've seen an increase in all these guys' ability scrummaging. </p><p>This has been discussed widely on these pages, but Domingo and Mas, known as technical, 'smaller' front rowers, have both suffered from the new rules and have come out and admitted it. </p><p>The New Zealand scrum, with Woodcock and Owen Franks both of the bigger kind at 1m85 and 120kg, seem to have not benefited from the laws. </p><p></p><p>I guess it's individual, some guys manage better than others in spite of size and what not, but I have noted a general tendency of the larger guys benefiting from a new found comfort and upperhand at scrum-time they did not possess previously. I mean when you see, every game, a struggling Thomas Domingo coming off and Vincent Debaty come in and all of a sudden the French scrum's dominant, you know something's up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 661141, member: 57076"] BUMP the article and most people seemed to think the absence of the "hit" and new scrum rules would benefit smaller, more technical guys and disadvantage the bigger, larger specimens. After some time with the new laws, who would you say you feel has really benefited from this ? I feel a lot of the larger guys have, Debaty, Ducalcon, Figallo, Mike Ross, Geoff Cross, Carl Hayman, Kepu. I've seen an increase in all these guys' ability scrummaging. This has been discussed widely on these pages, but Domingo and Mas, known as technical, 'smaller' front rowers, have both suffered from the new rules and have come out and admitted it. The New Zealand scrum, with Woodcock and Owen Franks both of the bigger kind at 1m85 and 120kg, seem to have not benefited from the laws. I guess it's individual, some guys manage better than others in spite of size and what not, but I have noted a general tendency of the larger guys benefiting from a new found comfort and upperhand at scrum-time they did not possess previously. I mean when you see, every game, a struggling Thomas Domingo coming off and Vincent Debaty come in and all of a sudden the French scrum's dominant, you know something's up. [/QUOTE]
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