New breakdown focus will keep the jackals on straight and narrow

NICK CAIN
NICK CAIN

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THE breakdown is back at the top of the refereeing agenda as we go into the restart, and it has put Tom Curry and the rest of the openside jackals in the Premiership on notice that they will have to raise their game.
Curry and his Sale team-mates learned the hard way in their defeat against Harlequins on Friday night, with many of the 19 penalties they conceded coming as a result of the new ‘Breakdown Refocus’ through which match officials are aiming to make the breakdown safer, fairer, and clearer.
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