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Rugby Championship Team of the Week: Round Two
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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 667201" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>I think the only way you can more or less have an understanding of scrums is if you play at prop for a reasonable period of time. You sort of get an empathy for what is likely happening (although it's often still pretty difficult to tell). It's difficult to know if the LH is boring in, or if the TH has dropped his shoulder and began folding, or which prop has dropped to ground because the opposite prop went too low and lost balance through a slip resulting in one prop looking like he folded, or whether the other prop simply folded due to the pressure. Sadly there are barely any props who commentate, and I'm fairly sure even top referees just use a lot of guess work as none look like they've scrummaged as anything other than an exercise to understand scrums - likely against other referees who have equally no idea of how to scrum.</p><p></p><p>It's a part of the game I love and would hate to see it removed - but I wouldn't mind seeing a scrum referee of some kind who generally had some kind of idea of what players are doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 667201, member: 38640"] I think the only way you can more or less have an understanding of scrums is if you play at prop for a reasonable period of time. You sort of get an empathy for what is likely happening (although it's often still pretty difficult to tell). It's difficult to know if the LH is boring in, or if the TH has dropped his shoulder and began folding, or which prop has dropped to ground because the opposite prop went too low and lost balance through a slip resulting in one prop looking like he folded, or whether the other prop simply folded due to the pressure. Sadly there are barely any props who commentate, and I'm fairly sure even top referees just use a lot of guess work as none look like they've scrummaged as anything other than an exercise to understand scrums - likely against other referees who have equally no idea of how to scrum. It's a part of the game I love and would hate to see it removed - but I wouldn't mind seeing a scrum referee of some kind who generally had some kind of idea of what players are doing. [/QUOTE]
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