In an era when size matters so much, The Scotsman's Allan Massie reports that we are craving more skill.
"a game for players of all shapes and sizes. This has always been the boast. Some 40 years ago there was a Springbok scrum-half who didn't quite measure 5 foot even in long-studded boots. Recently fears have been expressed that this was no longer true, and that rugby was moving towards a situation where almost everyone was more than 6 foot high and weighted at least 15st.
"Happily this hasn't quite proved to be the case. There is still room, even at the highest level, for lightly-built players like Chris Paterson and others, like Glasgow's admirable Colin Gregor, who are anything but mastadons. Nor have portly props quite disappeared, even if beer bellies, at least at the top level, are a rarer sight than they used to be."
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