Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points, by Brendan Gallagher

It's a shame fly-on-the-wall sports documentaries weren’t a thing back in the 1980s because, as a result, we have been denied concrete evidence of the only scrummaging session at training that realistically matches the infamous beasting that Jim Telfer inflicted on the 1997 Lions in Pretoria.
On that occasion you will recall the assistant Lions coach, alarmed by the way in which Western Province had manhandled the Lions scrum three days earlier, set the Rhino scrum machine at 2.5 tonnes and inflicted 43 ...