These days TV commentators are clearly under orders from broadcasters not to mention them, but our readers say that crooked scrum feeds remain one of the biggest bugbears in our sport.
Many of them are incredulous – and incensed – that putting the ball in straight at the scrum, one of Rugby Union’s most fundamental and easily applied laws, is being relentlessly ignored by elite referees.
The latest evidence came in the opening round of the Six Nations, and it did not get more brazen than the scrum in the fifth minute of Scotland’s game against Ireland at Murrayfield....