Advantage laws have become a hindrance

THE mania for keeping an already frantic and attack friendly game fluid in the name of entertainment has reached epidemic proportions but we really do need to have a good look at the advantage law for knock-ons.
Take the Scotland- France game last week and the build up to their second try from Huw Jones in the 32nd minute. Some time before the try – but in the same continuous passage of play – Scotland attacked dangerously down the right touchline and looked set to score when Greig Laidlaw spilled the ball forward two or three yards. He then tried to regather it and knocked the ...

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