Greg Growden learns a little more about the French scrum, and their state-of-the-art scrum machine, from Didier Retiere in The Sydney Morning Herald.
"Since June, the French team has been packing in against a state-of-the-art robotic scrum machine, which can simulate every set piece imaginable, even to the extent of re-enacting collapsed scrums. It is also able to take on the characteristics of an opposition Test scrum, and allows France to bore in on the props and hookers at varying angles.
"At the team's luxurious training headquarters, 25 kilometres east of Paris, the machine, which cost €200,000 ($276,000) to build, is being used this week to ensure that the French pack is up to whatever tricks the Wallabies scrum might try.
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"Among those heavily involved in the machine's construction is France's forwards coach Didier Retiere, who said yesterday that the original reason for building the scrum simulator was for safety."
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