In his weekly column in the Irish Independent, Tony Ward questions the thinking behind the International Rugby Board's (IRB) depowering of the scrum.
"The most sensible comment I have heard from any analyst in recent times came from former All Blacks hooking legend Sean Fitzpatrick when he was asked for his opinion on the unmitigated disaster area that is now the scrum.
"What once was an art form -- and for those central to it an endgame in itself -- has become a bugbear and a festering sore on the modern game.
"Even the most blinkered of props of my acquaintance are bored to tears by what passes as the re-invented scrum. For Fitzpatrick, the solution was simple and contained in his rhetorical question: "What was wrong with the scrum of old?"
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