What will happen to the scrum?

Well just about the only change not being suggested is that both teams pull instead of pushing. 

Sid James wrote: Robb wrote: kingsheathlad wrote: A letter in Rugby Paper today suggested reducing team to 13 players🙄 Are they trying to turn this into the lesser code?  Snob.

As posted elsewhere: Think the scrum will be ok, just won't play!

Robb wrote: But they also said yesterday that grassroots sport was to begin again at the start of July.

Not sure rugby was included in that - they haven't even given a date for cricket to re-start.

Surely the solution to this is to have everyone tested and when and if available, inoculated. All this stuff about where people cough is unpredictable and risky.

Pappashanga wrote: How much does it cost to test someone? Whatever it costs, it has to be worth it, until inoculation arrives.

Assume 40 per club per week ( need to test the expected 20 man playing squad, some reserves in case of positive tests/training injuries and coaches/medical staff - around £100 pp = £4K per week per club

Totally unrealistic for clubs below Premiership level IMO

Options could be a thermometer test on arrival for training, anyone with temperature sent off to get tested and not allowed back at the club until negative test result comes through. 

Edited by LJ from Roth - 06 Jul 2020 at 09:23

Pappashanga wrote: They can't just start training without a rigorous plan. starting contact sports without one is just plain dangerous and irresponsible. The figures put forward are tiny compared with the enormous sums this disease has cost and might cost in the future. Look at Australia in the past few days.

Agreed they are tiny in the big picture, but not sure many N1/N2 teams could afford the extra costs.

Remember, all teams have to be able to afford testing or there is no league.

As for the idea that people are responsible when it comes to sipocial distancing - recent pictures of Beaches and Drinkers at Pubs on Saturday would indicate a lot of people either think they are immune or don't care.

On current estimates there are still over 20,000 people who have tested positive for Covid 19 and probably the same who are asymptomatic so the chances of standing closely to someone in a pub is quite high especially as you saw the crowds on the beach and in the pub last weekend. The hot spots seem to have occurred around factories who have not put social distances in place and it shows how quickly a spike can flare up  if we do not keep to the guidelines. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 4 weeks after the way people got together last Saturday. Remember the person standing next to you could have Covid!!