In his column in the Irish Independent, Tony Ward writes that, on the evidence of the Six Nations, rugby's law-makers have it all to do in their ongoing bid to create a game worth watching again.
"So, how was it for you? For me, if I'm being really honest, the Six nations was average - just about. However, I worry greatly about the game and where it is going.
"Despite all the criticism, I applaud Paddy O'Brien and his fellow law-makers at Huguenot House for battling against the odds in their crusade to free up space for that precious fluidity we all crave.
"We must never give up the fight, but how do you create space on a battlefield invented in the 19th-century for warriors light years removed from the beefed-up, super-charged mega-fit professional combatants of today?
"Rugby league didn't reduce from 15 to 13 just to be different from rugby union. They did so as the only logical solution to the problem confronting union now.
"I dread the day it happens, but, however long it does take, this is the direction we are heading in, because, in the final analysis money - and with it survival - talks loudest."
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