Coaches cluster round to ease away from crisis point
The law-makers can stand down, sensible coaching has addressed the aerial onslaught that was killing the game, according to Eddie Butler in The Guardian.
"Worcester-Northampton may not go down as one of the matches of the decade but perhaps, in its own way, it was quite a landmark game. For months, ever since the glow of the Lions tour chilled in the northern autumn, we had been moaning that something horrible was happening to the game. The contest on the ground, with a distinct bias in favour of the tackler, meant that the ball was going up into the heavens. The floor was the minefield that had to be overflown, and it was not pretty.
"Well, there is evidence to suggest that the problem is safely being addressed by the coaches, rather than being abandoned to the law-makers. The legislators of the International Rugby Board would no doubt think long and hard about the matter, and end up inserting a clause that would merely create a jam somewhere else. The last round of Experimental Law Variations was born of good intentions but simply proved that this is a complex sport of loopholes and knock-on effects."
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