{"id":11447,"date":"2012-06-13T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-trial-for-new-crouch-touch-set-scrum-sequence\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:14:23","slug":"rugby-trial-for-new-crouch-touch-set-scrum-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-trial-for-new-crouch-touch-set-scrum-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Trial for new crouch, touch, set scrum sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">June 13<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The International Rugby Board (IRB) is<br \/>\nto try out a new &#8220;crouch, touch, set&#8221; scrum engagement sequence<br \/>\nnext season in a bid to ease a problem area of the sport.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trial sequence will feature the front rows crouching<br \/>\nbefore the props use one arm to touch the shoulder of their<br \/>\nopposite numbers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The props follow up by withdrawing their arms, the referee<br \/>\nwill call &#8220;set&#8221; when the front rows are ready and the scrum can<br \/>\nthen be arranged.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scrum is a complex, dynamic area and it was very clear<br \/>\nfrom advice and expertise evaluated by the Scrum Steering Group<br \/>\nthere is no quick and easy fix,&#8221; chairman Bernard Lapasset told<br \/>\nthe IRB&#8217;s website (www.irb.com).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank all Unions for their continued<br \/>\ncommitment to the important process of improvement in this area<br \/>\nand their full support of this initial trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trial was approved at a meeting last month of the Scrum<br \/>\nSteering Group which is made up of Union and players&#8217;<br \/>\nrepresentatives, former players and other experts.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Tony Jimenez; editing by Alison Wildey)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The International Rugby Board (IRB) is to try out a new &#8220;crouch, touch, set&#8221; scrum engagement sequence next season in a bid to ease a problem area of the sport. The trial sequence will feature the front rows crouching before the props use one arm to touch the shoulder of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}