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At the risk of giving the impression I have an unhealthy fixation with scrums I fear that’s where the Wallabies could come unstuck, big time, in tonight’s Test series opener against the British and Irish Lions in Brisbane.
Having hammered on recently about the amount of playing time lost through scrum resets, I now find myself joining those pondering the unnerving prospect of a ‘scrumathon’ on a greasy, shifting Suncorp Stadium surface.
And, most worrying of all, the knock-on effect for the team finishing second in that critical set-piece battle.
One thing’s for sure. If conditions dictate that both teams have to severely rein in their attacking ambitions, we’re in for an even more energy-sapping, error-strewn war of attrition than we might previously have anticipated.
If that’s the case, given the Wallabies’ chequered history at scrum time – and, in stark contrast to the Lions, their disturbing lack of quality back-up – I seriously suspect we’ll be heading to Melbourne for the second Test with the tourists up 1-zip.
Simplistic? We’ll see.
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