BILLY JOHNSON
THE OLD ALBANIANS LOCK TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND

1. The maul ‘tackle’
This is the main thing that really winds me up on the pitch. The attacking player takes the ball into contact, gets held up by the defenders, and the referee calls ‘maul!’
Defenders then collapse the maul and get rewarded with the put in at the scrum despite lying all over the ball I just feel this is negative and boring and goes against other rules of the game. It needs to be addressed!

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