World Rugby bans scrums from free-kick options, potentially reducing Springboks' scrum dominance, aiming for game safety.
World Rugby bans scrums from free-kick options, potentially reducing Springboks' scrum dominance, aiming for game safety.
World Rugby on Thursday announced teams would no longer be allowed to choose to scrum when awarded a free kick, nullifying, to some degree, one of the Boks’ biggest weapons.From 1 July, teams will have to tap the ball and play, or kick it when awarded a free kick. It is one of three law changes that World Rugby have brought into the game.
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