I'd suggest that if its because the player is not strong/experienced enough to deal with it, then he needs to be subbed for someone that can. If there isn't anybody then the ref will need to be advised and the scrums will need to go uncontested. its not as if there are no options at all, and burying heads in the sand won't help the situation ultimately.
My "accepting" of it was directed at the more elite end of the scale - you rightly identify that there are two games in operation under one set of laws - and if standing up is stopping the oppo from benefiting from skillful play then it needs to be penalised. In this regard I maintain then that standing up needs to be properly outlawed rather than bending another law to achieve that ... when very possibly the law that is being shoe horned into use may not actually be being broken.
didds
This is where we differ. Fundamentally I don't agree that a scrum should go uncontested merely because my props are stronger than yours. If your props conceded the scrum by standing up then that's tough, their backs will now have to retreat for as long as my team have the ball at the 8's feet. We may break off to launch an attack whilst we drive forwards, but we may wait for a retreating player to infringe a law.
Imagine that our tactical advantage is that we have strong forwards & conversely you have fast backs - that's rugby Didds, utilise whatever advantage you have, rather than reward a standing-up team by creating an 'uncontested situation' - that only serves to cancel my teams stronger scrum.
Pro rugby just wants the game to restart 'somehow' so it's invented this go-forward reward, until someone can come up with a set of laws that can transcend the divide between Pro & community then we are stuck with the current position.
IMO it's Hobsons choice, amateur guys need the 'escape valve' pro game wants to stop the defending side from ruining the spectacle.
I'm all ears, if someones got a better '
workable' solution :shrug: