CHRIS HEWETT

THOSE of us who have spent our entire careers writing against deadline know all there is to know about the tyranny of the ticking clock, so it is highly amusing to see the scrummaging community, time-wasters supreme, finally being given a proper hurry-up by referees in the Rugby Championship, operating with the full force of the law behind them.
How many top-level games, from Test matches down, have run the gamut of set-piece chicanery – early engagements, late engagements, crouches that are too low, crouches that are too slow, standings-up, steps backwards, indivi...