New scrum laws will help game flow

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Crouch-bind-set ... The referee's commands at scrums change for the first Bledisloe match. Source:AAP

LONGER scrums, leg burn and hookers actually hooking again.

That's the best guess of the Wallabies on the impact of new scrum laws, which will be used for the first time at Test level in Saturday's opening Bledisloe Cup Test in Sydney.

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The old referee's call of "crouch, touch, engage" will be replaced by "crouch, bind, set", which will see props hold the bind with their outside arm until the referee calls set.

With frontrowers no longer bashing into each other from a metre apart, it will see the massive collision of the hit majorly reduced and, it is hoped, cut down on infuriating scrum collapses.

Halfbacks will also be policed on feeding the ball straight, with the referee calling when the no.9 can feed it.

The revised sequence is so new, however, the Bledisloe Cup will be the first major game to use it and no Australian players have ever played under the new call.

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Law trials were held during the IRB Pacific Rugby Cup in, but otherwise only the early games of the ITM Cup and pre-season friendlies in Europe in the past month have used it.

Wallabies captain James Horwill said his squad had had to dig up Japanese footage and training footage to see the sequence in action, and they'd spent a lot of time at training last week practising under the new call.

"It's going to be one of those things you have to do and see how it goes, and what works and doesn't work. It will almost be a suck it and see philosophy and see how we go in that first game," Horwill said.

"The good scrummagers are still going to prosper. The guys who get in good shapes, and be able to use the ways they like to scrummage, will still be at advantage.

"It certainly takes out the hit, and the referee controls when the ball comes in, so the scrums are going to be a lot longer than what we've seen in Super Rugby. They'll be four, five, six seconds longer scrums.

"That will be interesting, there'll be a bit of leg burn going on. That might come into play in the back end of games."

The ambition of the changes is to have fewer collapses, and the absence of the hit should help. Evidence so far suggests the return to an older-school style of engagement between front rows leads to more stability.

"It just changes the whole dynamic," said coach Ewen McKenzie.

"You have to crouch and bind, so the whole thing is much closer. The advantage of a big hit and some of those things are not such an advantage. There are subtle technical things that come into play, so it's a whole different look and feel. It has an impact on a lot of things."

With referees also controlling the feed - and cracking down on modern halfbacks bowling off-spin into the tunnel - hooking will once again be required. Horwill said Stephen Moore was old enough to still know the art, but younger hookers might require training.

"He's done a bit but there are a couple of guys ... it hasn't been a huge part of the game. They've had to work on it. That's another thing we have to get right," Horwill said.

Both Horwill and McKenzie urged referees in the Rugby Championship to not whistle up a storm of pedantry at the scrum, given all parties are feeling their way.

"You want the game to flow. Players and fans want that, you don't want to bogged down with re-sets and scrum infringements," Horwill said.

"But that seems to be the reason they're bringing it in, to stop wasting time at the scrum, to have a contest and then get on with the game."

NEW IRB scrummaging laws will take effect in the opening Bledisloe Cup game, with the new call set to reduce scrums collapsing.

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