I WAS pleased to see Bill Beaumont (Sir) in the New Year’s Honours list.
His playing recordcertainly deserves recognition as has his progression through higher positions in our sport, culminating in top dog at World Rugby.
I wonder if now that he has achieved this highest honour he will look back over the mess he has created of the scrum element of our wonderful game?
The continual tinkering of the laws has reduced the scrum to a farce.Will he have the courage to convince his power hungry ‘club’ to see the error of their ways and revert back to the more traditional scrum w...