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Baxter: We need to power up the scrum

By PAUL REES

Rob Baxter has called on the game’s lawmakers to forget about trying to make the game more entertaining by speeding it up and focus on reinforcing staples like the scrum.
Exeter’s director of rugby fears that incessant meddling with the laws and scrums tending to end in resets with props prepared to go down rather than backwards is making the game more like rugby league with space at a premium.
“The key in the scrum is to get the opposition into a contest,” said Baxter. “It has been too easy to avoid that and we need to get on top of it.
“A scrum is about pinning down 16 guys ...

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