Please don't take this as sour grapes, just mine an many KR fans opinion, why you let Johnson go is daft on so many levels, he was great on loan from us, has bags of potential and you paid a bob or 2 on him from Cas. When he matures he will do just fine as his core skills are x5 of Mulhern.

As for Mulhern, he came to us on loan, 23 and too old for academy and he came as a big unit, did really well and when we signed him the east stand had a hard on.

However he did that daft thing and went vegan, his size seemed to go big time, and an example of his performance was receiving the ball on kick off and getting nailed asap, he has no go forward at all. Honestly this is not a dig but I am really happy with the swap. Wait and see, he is 26 now, and has shown no potential.

Feel free to bookmark this page and pull it out when he is in the England squad and ripping it up in S.L, but like I said I'm afraid you have signed the wrong kid.

I get the theory of scrums producing more space but the number of breaks I have seen from the base of a scrum are minimal. In fact they are so rare they tend to stick in the memory.

You beat me to it, sometimes I do wonder if people realise that its not the 70s or 80s anymore and tactics that were a necessity or byproduct of the game at that point are irrelevant in this day and age.

As you say in 99% of cases modern day scrums the hooker (best hands) are at the base of a scrum in possession, in defence the fullback is, so he can get back into position, without getting tied up in the first tackle.

The NRL have recognised this and are introducing new focus on keeping players packed down until the ball has broke from the scrum-base. Also additional consequences for repeat offenders.

It would be good if Super League aligned its rules with the NRL's excluding those involving the bunker due to logistics. Especially in a World Cup year.

Personally I would now get rid of scrums.

I agree, they slow the game down, the supposed advantage is never realised, most of the time it's a tackle very shortly after the ball is taken out of the scrum and often in line with where the scrum was.
They're absolutely pointless. Take a tap, it's quicker and there would be a sligtly higher yardage gain for the attacking team.