Old fogies will be quaking in boots

[jargan83]

Old fogies will be quaking in boots

By Wayne Smith

July 28, 2008

IN the plush London clubs, in the grey Welsh valleys and on the windswept Scottish highlands, resolve now surely is hardening to kill the experimental law variations stone dead.

How heads must have been shaking as the best Bledisloe Cup game since the 2000 match of the century unfolded on British television around lunchtime on Saturday.

It was breathtakingly fast, ferociously physical rugby, close to the ultimate argument for what the game can be under the new laws - and it would have terrified the hell out of the reactionary Home Unions.


Old fogies will be quaking in boots - Tri-Nations - Fox Sports

[welshrugbyfan]

Old fogies will be quaking in boots

By Wayne Smith

July 28, 2008

IN the plush London clubs, in the grey Welsh valleys and on the windswept Scottish highlands, resolve now surely is hardening to kill the experimental law variations stone dead.

How heads must have been shaking as the best Bledisloe Cup game since the 2000 match of the century unfolded on British television around lunchtime on Saturday.

It was breathtakingly fast, ferociously physical rugby, close to the ultimate argument for what the game can be under the new laws - and it would have terrified the hell out of the reactionary Home Unions.


Old fogies will be quaking in boots - Tri-Nations - Fox Sports

Get rid of the numbers in the line out rule and the dangerous pulling down of the maul and I'm a fan of the ELV's for sure. I've done a complete 360 since the start of the Super 14 season and am now right behind the push to make them law. If you watch an old game where they didn't jump at lineouts because it was disallowed at the time it makes them look very boring, I'm sure when they first brought in the jumping rule it was groaned at in a similar way, now it is a feature of the game.