Close match at 30-33 and closer than I thought it would be but England looked in charge for most of the game. Since the WRU, in its infinite stupidity, opted not to renew the contract of the best defence coach in the world in Sean Edwards, we've leaked points like a sieve. Byron 'Colander' Hayward is just not in the same league.
But one thing really grates on me and those are the scrum laws. Never seen such an idiotic process in sport. They slow the game down and teams deliberately commit minor transgressions in order to get a reset when they are defending a lead. And whilst this is all going on THE CLOCK IS TICKING!! I've seen as many as five resets at just one scrum and it's destroying the game. All it takes is a law that stops the clock until a legitimate scrum takes place, when it's restarted. You can bet your arse you'll get very few resets if that happened because there'd be no reason for most of them.
This an obvious solution to put a stop to cheating and avoid massive frustration but ignored by the powers-that-be. Same thing with VAR in football. Common sense could have been used to obtain something acceptable to all but, again, was ignored. Seems that common sense is something that doesn't exist with these administrators as is usually the case with many things in life in my experience. Takes a committee to royally fuck things up.
But one thing really grates on me and those are the scrum laws. Never seen such an idiotic process in sport. They slow the game down and teams deliberately commit minor transgressions in order to get a reset when they are defending a lead. And whilst this is all going on THE CLOCK IS TICKING!! I've seen as many as five resets at just one scrum and it's destroying the game. All it takes is a law that stops the clock until a legitimate scrum takes place, when it's restarted. You can bet your arse you'll get very few resets if that happened because there'd be no reason for most of them.
This an obvious solution to put a stop to cheating and avoid massive frustration but ignored by the powers-that-be. Same thing with VAR in football. Common sense could have been used to obtain something acceptable to all but, again, was ignored. Seems that common sense is something that doesn't exist with these administrators as is usually the case with many things in life in my experience. Takes a committee to royally fuck things up.
I looked at figures from the 2016 Six Nations and there was a total of 266 scrums in the competition and in one game alone there were 27 scrums including 7 resets. In the competition 241 minutes, or THREE ENTIRE MATCHES, were spent on scrummaging and in the France v Ireland game 26 minutes of the 80 were lost to scrums. As an average, some 20% of the game is eaten up by scrums.