A global law trial designed to protect scrum-halves at the base of rucks, mauls and scrums will also come into effect for the Six Nations. Called 'protecting the 9', the amendment will see the ...

Scrums are used as a means to restart play after a minor infringement, most commonly when the ball is knocked or passed forward. Each team’s pack of eight forwards contest the scrum. The front ...

They are almost always the eight forwards in the side. The scrum is formed at the place where the infringement happened. All scrums must take place at least five metres from the touch or trylines.

Nines at scrums are now also protected from their opposite numbers, with defencding scrum-halves unable to advance beyond the centre line of the tunnel. Good news if you’re Conor Murray but for ...

“The purpose of a scrum is to restart play with a contest for possession after a minor infringement or stoppage”. Scrums should restart play, not create swarms of match-defining ...

“I came on for my first scrum and Micky Young, the old Newcastle prop, said ‘you had better be good wearing those boots’,” Sinckler tells Telegraph Sport. “He honestly demolished m ...