Crucial
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More and more TV coverage is giving us armchair pundits overhead views of scrums which make a mockery of having packs pushing straight and square.
While I understand the difficulty of not being able to watch everything, all the time, I am also interested in hearing from experience just how hard it is to detect props driving in at angles.
As an example I would point to the Sco/Ire game on the weekend where Ireland's early domination in the scrum looked to be mainly because the Irish TH was targeting inward on the Scotland hooker and taking no weight form the Scotland LH.
The appearance at ground level was that the Irish scrum was simply too strong and the Scotland FR was having trouble coping but the overhead shots clearly showed illegalities.
At this level of rugby could this be something the TMO could comment on via mic to the ref? Or does that necessitate the implementation of 'spidercams' everywhere for fairness?
While I understand the difficulty of not being able to watch everything, all the time, I am also interested in hearing from experience just how hard it is to detect props driving in at angles.
As an example I would point to the Sco/Ire game on the weekend where Ireland's early domination in the scrum looked to be mainly because the Irish TH was targeting inward on the Scotland hooker and taking no weight form the Scotland LH.
The appearance at ground level was that the Irish scrum was simply too strong and the Scotland FR was having trouble coping but the overhead shots clearly showed illegalities.
At this level of rugby could this be something the TMO could comment on via mic to the ref? Or does that necessitate the implementation of 'spidercams' everywhere for fairness?