Comments on: Scrumboks!

By: Peter Church

Peter Church — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:42:00 +0000

Stephen Jones delivers a scathing (tongue in cheek?) putdown of South African scrummagers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby_union/article6921703.ece

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By: Marius de Kock

Marius de Kock — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:41:30 +0000

Our loose forwards should stick their heads in the scrum and start pushing. You can’t expect 5 to do the work of 8.

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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:37:57 +0000

PDV seems to talking to a brick wall when trying to get answers from the IRB refs association…

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By: Paul Burton

Paul Burton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:53:56 +0000

Yes Peter, the coach will need to get clarity on the interpretations of the laws as they are to be applied at scrum time. Also vital is to understand what will be applied by the next two referees at the tackle: sure, the tackler must be allowed to play the ball (from either side), but he has to be on his feet without his body weight supported in any other way. Surely also the tackled player has to be given a second (perhaps just a split second) to place the ball once tackled?

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By: Peter Church

Peter Church — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:02:56 +0000

These stats are not official but by reckoning the penalty count was 13 - 5 in Saracens favour (2nd half 8-1). The shortarms awarded were 2-0 to Saracens. I included in Saracens numbers the penalty awarded in front of the posts that Hougard converted as a drop goal. There were 21 scrums in total and the Springboks conceded 3 short arm penalties and 2 full penalties. Over and above the penalties, Saracens two tries came directly from scrum pressures.

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