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<blockquote data-quote="bushytop" data-source="post: 963280" data-attributes="member: 56738"><p>The breakdown is a constantly evolving part of the game, there have 'probably' been more law changes and amendments to how a team can legally compete at the breakdown to turn over ball than for any other facet of the game (the scrum is up there too).</p><p></p><p>The point of the law changes has always been (essentially) to make the game more attacking... and therefore more of a spectacle. So it has refined (and refined - whittled down) the amount of things that a defending team can do in order to turn the ball over once play breaks down. As this has happened, a player with the necessary skill-set to be able to consistently win turn-overs... Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Sam Warburton, Tadhg Beirne have just become more and more valuable as breakdown turn-overs become more and more like gold-dust.</p><p></p><p>To add to this, different referees 'interpret' the breakdown rules differently, so the great turnover specialists (and teams in general) will 'tailor' their approach to defending the breakdown depending on who is reffing the game - see Wales against Australia the other day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bushytop, post: 963280, member: 56738"] The breakdown is a constantly evolving part of the game, there have ‘probably’ been more law changes and amendments to how a team can legally compete at the breakdown to turn over ball than for any other facet of the game (the scrum is up there too). The point of the law changes has always been (essentially) to make the game more attacking... and therefore more of a spectacle. So it has refined (and refined - whittled down) the amount of things that a defending team can do in order to turn the ball over once play breaks down. As this has happened, a player with the necessary skill-set to be able to consistently win turn-overs... Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Sam Warburton, Tadhg Beirne have just become more and more valuable as breakdown turn-overs become more and more like gold-dust. To add to this, different referees ‘interpret’ the breakdown rules differently, so the great turnover specialists (and teams in general) will ‘tailor’ their approach to defending the breakdown depending on who is reffing the game - see Wales against Australia the other day. [/QUOTE]
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