Sombra;212828 said:
I think the scrum needs work as well. I sat and watched them try to form 7 scrums at one point, it's a goddamn joke. Plus the massive disparity between northern and southern hemisphere referees. One bunch love the game, the other bunch love using the whistle and getting screen time. I'll leave you to figure out which is which.
Not even gonna make a proper reply to your points suggestions, as what it would really do is turn it into league, eventually.
The scrums I agree with though. I remember watching the first match after the new rules came in. Bath vs Gloucester, maybe. I assumed the whole touch-pause-engage would be great, because there would be a smaller impact on the shoulders, so less jarring of the vertebrae, which is what they were trying to do. Then they use it, and it's still exactly the same, they just have to tap each other's shoulders first. If they had to hold onto the other prop as they engaged, it would make it both safer and more stable.
I don't watch much southern hemisphere domestic rugby, and when I do it's usually south african (currie cup?), but I know for sure that english referees at least are an absolute shambles. Just be glad you didn't have Chris White. Spreadbury is the only decent ref in england, and he gets let down by his linesmen all the time. Wayne Barnes? Whenever he's reffing at matches I see, he barely seems to even know the rules.
Am I suprised that forward passes got ignored? Not at all - it happens four or five times a match, domestically. Refs just don't care, they've got so much to look for it's almost always missed. I've seen a lot of forward passes even at the world cup too which have gone un-noticed, let alone punished. They're a little bit stricter at the line-out, but even then, the ball almost never goes straight, and it's ignored, even by the linesman who is standing directly behind the hooker. Idiocy, but neither are something that would suprise anyone who watches british domestic rugby.
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