Inga Tuigamala, writing in The New Zealand Herald, shows his disappointment at the re-introduction of the rolling maul into international rugby and suggests that rucking be reinstated to clear up the breakdown.
"Any rucking has to involve the player driving forward and removing players on the ground with a backward motion of the feet. It can't involve static players stamping directly down. Players would have to be told very clearly what rucking meant, and the penalties for not doing it correctly.
"A big point about the impact of rucking is that it discourages players from illegally slowing the ball down in the first place because they know the consequences of getting their bodies or hands in the wrong place.
"As for the rolling maul, I would hate to see it re-emerge. Teams that become very proficient at rolling mauls are almost unstoppable, but it is a boring sight and goes against the whole ethos of trying to make rugby an entertaining game.
"It's a tactic that England excel at and maybe the northern hemisphere's opposition to the experimental rules indicates it would feel disadvantaged by them compared to the southern hemisphere teams, where players such as Richie McCaw (left) have thrived under the new rules."
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