How often do we hear it said by the French, South Africans and even these days the New Zealanders, that the scrum is a ...

This scrum is one of the best ways of cranking up the pressure on your opponent's defence. It is given to the attacking side after one of the defending team has grounded the ball inside their own goal ...

Over the past five years, the golden generation of South Africa forwards have developed arguably the most formidable and ...

For scrum-halves, the offside line is the line of the ball fed into the scrum. So that means they can't go past that line until the ball has been put into the scrum by the opposing number nine. For ...

These dimensions are largely based on the dimensions of the grassy fields at Rugby School in the early ... head prop They support the hooker in the scrum, provide power at rucks and mauls and ...

Scrum-halves shouldn’t count sheep in their sleep – they should count the number of passes they’ve hopefully made in that ...

a group of men head down in the rugby scrum, all pushing for the team. Now a new mental fitness scheme, using lessons from the rough and tumble of the pitch, is helping boys open up and talk about ...

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

Objective To assess and evaluate the injury risk associated with the scrum in English professional rugby union in the 2011–2012 season. Design Prospective, cohort. Participants Players at English ...

Wallabies scrum coach Mike Cron jokingly refers to himself as ‘broken-down old forwards coach’. But in world rugby, the New Zealander is renowned as the foremost expert on scrummaging ...

Wales scrum-half Williams to join Gloucester from Cardiff Cardiff's final United Rugby Championship game of the season is against Ospreys on 1 June, with the region's last game of the season at ...