ELVs are strangling the game they are meant to be promoting
Rugby's lawmakers are finding support for the new laws is dwindling in the northern and even southern hemispheres according to Shaun Edwards in the Guardian.
"Rugby's lawmakers are in town this weekend. Armed with a pile of statistics, they hope to win a few converts to the experimental law variations that have been in force up here since the start of the season. I can't say I wish them luck – and I don't know many who do.
"...The southern hemisphere guys who are in London this weekend will no doubt produce figures that show the ball is in play longer since the introduction of the ELVs. What they won't show is the time it spends in mid-air or buried under a pile of bodies and there are signs of such growing dissatisfaction that a move to throw the whole lot on the rubbish tip could be brewing with England, Wales and Ireland leading the way and South Africa, never a total convert, putting a little distance between themselves and the main supporters, Australia and New Zealand."
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