Background Rugby Union scrums which collapse possess a higher injury risk than completed scrums. A mechanically stable scrum should limit the motions which generate uncontrolled and hazardous ...

Inside the entertaining, incomprehensible rugby scrum Michael Steele/Getty Images Aug 15, 2019, 09:00 AM ET ...

Scrum V: 2023 Rugby World Cup Nicky Robinson Former Wales and Cardiff fly-half on BBC Scrum V We have to talk about the front five. I thought Gareth Thomas was under pressure early on and Robin ...

Australia's forwards had been sent to a scrum camp in the lead-up to the tournament, but it still looks like an area of concern - as does the lineout - and being on the wrong side of a 15-9 ...

Background In 2012, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) approved a new set of scrum laws for amateur rugby played in the country, to be implemented at the start of the 2013 rugby season. These law ...

This time I continue to look at Rugby Union, and, following my "Top Five No. 8s of All Time", I will look at the top five players ever to play at Scrum Half.

The scrum-half's basic role is to deliver the ball from the base of the scrum, ruck or maul to spark the backline, but that is too simplistic and ignores hundreds of other key characteristics. The ...

Inside the entertaining, incomprehensible rugby scrum Michael Steele/Getty Images Aug 15, 2019, 09:00 AM ET ...

For me, it is the best place of all." -- Adriaan Strauss, ex-South Africa captain and hooker * The Rugby World Cup kicks off at 6:45 a.m. ET on Sept. 20 on NBC Sports Gold.