JEFF PROBYN

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME
Breakdown clearouts have made risks worse

Change of tactics: Jonah Lomu didn’t run round players, he ran through them

There’s an old saying that trouble always come in threes and as far as rugby is concerned that certainly seems the case. First, we had the limited game of pick up and go with the inevitable box-kick finish which is boring and driving fans from the game.
Second, the talk of the Premiership effectively isolating themselves from the rest of the game while still trying to take RFU money and, third, the spectre of dementia compensati...

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