WHEN it comes to timing, World Rugby is like a faulty alarm clock. At the midnight hour, barely two months out from the start of the 2019 World Cup, it has chimed-in with a new scrum law which requires a significant adjustment to the engagement.
This brings with it the prospect of scrums at the World Cup turning into a penalty parade of technical infringements well before the ball is even put-in, with the painfully drawn-out scrum engagement that spectators, and forwards throughout the game, already suffer, becoming even more complicated and convoluted.
The new scrum law has been introduc...