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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 394371" data-attributes="member: 38640">It&#039;s interesting, but there are plenty of problems with scrums, no more than ever. The calls are too slow. As a prop, I&#039;ve noticed even in club levels, the referees are being told to slow down the crouch, touch, pause, engage the problems being with this, when you&#039;re trying to get the hit on quickly (which is important), it takes one anxious man of eight to get the whole pack moving forward in the scrum. If you speed up the scrum, and get rid of the redundant pause, it would certainly go some way to stopping the constant resets.&nbsp;If you were trying to guarentee that there wouldn&#039;t be as many resets, then prebinding and pushing on call would totally get rid of the problem. It would certainly make a different scrum contest though, but as Paddy O&#039;Brien said, the advantage to this would be the referee could then actually spend time enforcing the halfback put the ball in straight, and allow hookers to have a chance to actually hook the ball.&nbsp;I also agree with getting rid of the skin tight shirts that props wear, and I don&#039;t know a front rower who would disagree. Not only does it make binding a real challenge, both to the opposition and to your own hooker, but it&#039;s not usually the most flattering outfit, especially when you&#039;re reserving for your premier team, and they chuck you on touch judge...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 394371, member: 38640"] It's interesting, but there are plenty of problems with scrums, no more than ever. The calls are too slow. As a prop, I've noticed even in club levels, the referees are being told to slow down the[I] crouch, touch, pause, engage[/I] the problems being with this, when you're trying to get the hit on quickly (which is important), it takes one anxious man of eight to get the whole pack moving forward in the scrum. If you speed up the scrum, and get rid of the redundant [I]pause[/I], it would certainly go some way to stopping the constant resets. If you were trying to guarentee that there wouldn't be as many resets, then prebinding and pushing on call would totally get rid of the problem. It would certainly make a different scrum contest though, but as Paddy O'Brien said, the advantage to this would be the referee could then actually spend time enforcing the halfback put the ball in straight, and allow hookers to have a chance to actually hook the ball. I also agree with getting rid of the skin tight shirts that props wear, and I don't know a front rower who would disagree. Not only does it make binding a real challenge, both to the opposition and to your own hooker, but it's not usually the most flattering outfit, especially when you're reserving for your premier team, and they chuck you on touch judge... [/QUOTE]

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