If they are going to wear mitts, then velcro patches are the obvious (daft) answer.
Get the bind right, put it in straight, hold the push. Standard fare for pre match brief. We might even have a decent contest at scrum time!
Jumpers for goalposts etc.:deadhorse::chin:
If there's no definitive miscreant, then no-one. Reset and watch a bit closer.Now thats fine, what if on the hit, we go straight to ground without getting a bind, who do you ping?
Didds, you have this exact same problem anyway, props sharing shirts are different sizes now, what difference will it make?
At grass roots level it is much easier to ping the stronger pack. "Keep it up and hold it steady or we go uncontested - and you loose the advantage!"
In other words you put the decision making in the hands of the side which is capable of controlling the scrum - and if they make the right decision, fine.
I remember an England vs Australia match during the Aussie European tour when the English LHP binds and pull down on the Aussie THP which collapsed that side of the scrum. Aussie gets penalised all the time. I wonder what the referee & the assistants were looking at?
I remember an England vs Australia match during the Aussie European tour when the English LHP binds and pull down on the Aussie THP which collapsed that side of the scrum. Aussie gets penalised all the time. I wonder what the referee & the assistants were looking at?
I agree. Solution? RL scrums, perhaps?The referees have been going after the weaker scrums with penalties and extra attention. They only correct half of the time!!
The so called stronger scrum will milk the penalty everytime since the referee will blame the weak one!
We need to keep the contest in the scrums, otherwise we will see 15 players all of the same body type, ala rugby league, and this would be a huge shame.
I wonder if at the elite level down to say senior club rugby there needs to be specialised TH and LH jerseys that are loosefitting and have a clearly seen spot on them for their opposing number to grab. If this were done, the ref would have no excuse for binding in the wrong place, he could simply see if the binding was on the spot or not.
I think the problem there is .. define "loose"... we can bandy about what we mean by loose, and probably agree. But the requirement needs to be defined well enough so that a shirt is ALWAYS Ok, niot open to interpretation on a weekly basis, and consider the fcat that club owned shirts may have to "fit" differently shaped props from week to week.
didds
Sorry, but that attitude of finding excuses NOT to put right something that we pretty much all agree is spoiling the game seems poppycock to me.