Quote ="bloomers"It is, but a disadvantage compared to having the ball where the incident took place. Those 10 metres, or whatever, could make a significant difference, particularly deep in your own half. The team who has made the mistake should not gain any advantage from doing so, which is effectively what would happen.
I could see there being an argument for scrapping the advantage rule and just blowing for a scrum straight away, but I'd disagree as I'd rather see play carry on without a stoppage if possible. The opposing team deserves the right to try to gain an advantage, but knock ons, by their very nature, are unpredictable and at times the opponents will get the ball but in a position that is easily smothered in defence, at other times they will be able to make good advantage from the broken play. If the former, he team who have erred have still made the mistake and so the resulting play has to account for this.'"
Agree with all of what you said, however why not scrap the scrum alltogether! My preference would be to see if an advantage can be gained and if not just take the the ball to where it was dropped/knocked on and take a tap from there. Scrum is a joke takes too much time up.
