CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

It has been fiendishly difficult to identify rugby union’s precise place in the constellation of professional sports since it took up residence in a parallel universe some time towards the end of the last century. Now it is being dragged into a black hole by the gravitational force of its own codswallop, the task has become even harder.
Oval-ball astronomers were struck by this fact when, just last week, they found themselves wrestling with what will forever be known as the Owen Farrell Equation:
na*10 x sh ÷ 2 (KC) = 0ws
For the non-mathematicians out there...