JONATHAN Davies – that’s “Jiffy”, not “Foxy”– the cross-code creator from decades past rather than the Lions centre from the here and now – fears rugby has become “boring”.
He’s not alone, but when one of the most compelling of all No.10s makes such a pronouncement, the people running the sport should cock an ear.
Davies mourns the disappearance of quick ruck ball – the inevitable consequence of the eradication of the ruck as he and his generation understood it – and says that while those old-style doses of &...