‘If you don’t like scrums, go watch rugby league,’ says Ox Nche

Powerful Springbok entrance ranker Ox Nche had a scathing evaluation for folks advocating to depower the scrum in rugby union, saying that in the event that they didn’t like it they need to go and watch rugby league as a substitute.

Nche was chatting with reporters forward of the Boks’ opening Rugby Championship conflict towards the Wallabies in Brisbane on Saturday (6.45am SA time), and was requested concerning the varied new legal guidelines being launched, together with the 30 second scrum rule.

However, he first had one thing to say to the followers and pundits who’ve been vital of the Springboks’ scrum dominance through the years and need to see much less of it.

“You have a lot of people talking about the scrum and I’ve said it in the past, people who don’t want scrums should just go and watch rugby league. There are no scrums there (in rugby league) otherwise it is pretty similar (to rugby union),” defined Nche.

Talking concerning the new 30 second scrum rule, which says that groups should be prepared for a scrum inside 30 seconds of the mark being known as by the referee, Nche stated it will not take a lot getting used to as it’s one thing the crew have been doing in coaching for some time now.

No drawback

“It shouldn’t be a problem. We’ve looked at our scrums even before these slight law changes. It shouldn’t be a problem for us. We just have to adapt a bit. We have spoken about it and made plans for it,” stated Nche.

“I feel it’s a good adaptation which makes the scrums a bit faster whereas on the similar time ensuring that you can nonetheless ship your commerce and present the world what you are actually good at.

“As a tight forward, you just have to meet the fitness requirements, to make sure that you can set quickly and keep the game flowing. I think it’s actually beneficial. It just requires more from the forwards. The teams that adapt quickest are the teams that will do well.”

Wallabies match

Looking on the problem that they’re anticipating from the Wallabies‘ scrum, Nche cautioned against being complacent, despite the Boks’ dominance over them lately, claiming that they’re trickier than folks realise.

“For me, their scrum is very unpredictable. You can see that they actually want to scrum. They stay in the contest. They will do anything to make sure that they dominate and go forward,” stated Nche.

“It’s going to be a problem for us, particularly on condition that we aren’t in Super Rugby anymore. It would be the first time since final yr that we truly get to scrum towards them.

“From what I have seen, they can be very unpredictable. You don’t know what they are going to bring. We just have to be prepared for anything.”