Background In 2012, the South African Rugby Union approved a new set of scrum Laws for amateur rugby, to be implemented at the start of the 2013 rugby season. These Law changes were based on the ...

World Rugby’s recent announcement of three law changes, including no more scrums from free kicks, has created some strong debate about whether the changes are aimed specifically at the Springboks’ ...

Last Saturday, a young coach I have been working with asked me to watch his under-16 team play. The match was being played in the shadow of the Pyrenees in Perpignan. While the view was majestic, it ...

(Reuters) - The Australian scrum has long been the laughing stock of international rugby. Some might say deservedly so as the Wallabies' scrum has been a wobbly old thing more often than not, the most ...

I FEAR that a front-rower will be seriously injured unless the IRB amends its new scrum laws. I can understand the merits of them changing the rules in the first place, given the scrums had often ...

The 2013 Rugby Championship will provide the backdrop to the debut of the new 'crouch, bind, set' scrum engagement trial. The new trial laws, aimed at enhancing player welfare and boosting scrum ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rugby's new scrum law could simply see the crooked feed replace the collapse as the source of contention, and penalties, if the first outings at test level in the Rugby Championship ...

Background: In January 2007 the International Rugby Board implemented a new law for scrum engagement aimed at improving player welfare by reducing impact force and scrum collapses. In New Zealand the ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Australian scrum has long been the laughing stock of international rugby. Sign up here. Some might say deservedly so as the Wallabies' scrum has been a wobbly old thing more ...