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For years now the scrum has been meaningless. There is no contest anymore, however there are still penalties for players not packing in right, screwing the pack around or pushing.
Why do we even have one?
A little junior-league lad said to me that there should be some other way of contesting the ball.
If you talk to a lot of the older players, they seem to think it was a step backwards, to make the scrum only a way to give the ball to the opposition.
They believe the contest between packs was a real part of the game.
“Those were the days,” you here them say, “when a good hooker meant exactly that”.
I’m not saying I would like to see this brought back, but is it such a bad idea or is there some other way of contesting the ball so that it means something?
Could the referee feed the scrum?
Could there be a ball-up as there is in aerial ping-pong (a.k.a. AFL)? A line-out, as there is in rugby union? A throw-in as there is in soccer?
I just seems a great waste of effort and time to pack down a scrum, already knowing the outcome.
Surely there is another option, but what?
This has been a talking point in league circles ever since they stopped letting it be a contest.
I am sure their will be some Roarers out their with some great ideas…
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