Two packs of players, straining every muscle for every inch of opposition territory they can claim. Of course, it's the scrum. It is used for restarting play after the following: The ball has been ...

Rugby wasn't a professional sport when I was growing up, but I still wanted to be a top class player. A lot of my friends didn't make it, but I stuck to it. I learnt to be quite resilient. If you're ...

Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports medicine community due to the perceived risk of catastrophic spinal injury during scrummaging. The contemporary rugby union scrum is a highly ...