One is loathe to do anything that encourages more rule changes in rugby.
But on nights like these...well, what can you do?
The scrums were awful in the first half during the Crusaders' ugly, narrow victory over the Rebel's in Melbourne.
Collapses, resets, penalties. Two teams with limited attack weren't
going to produce a classic, but the early scrum disaster set an unnecessarily bad tempo and the game never perked up.
Australian rugby will cringe at beefy blokes dropping head first into the Melbourne dirt.
The battle is tough enough in the Aussie Rules stronghold.
Many games aren't this bad scrum-wise, but too many still are.
The new scrum engagement rules were trumpeted as a breakthrough last year but the evidence is often in short supply.
