80k capacity is the Olympic Stadium. We sold a lot of tickets?

I can't help thinking that ,to be taken seriously on the international stage & by the Rah Rah gang, the scrum in its present form needs to be worked on by the RFL. Either make the sham scrums competitive again,which i doubt we have the forwards for these days, or remove them altogether. They are a joke.
Having said that ,we were much better in the second half & deserved the win & i thought all our props were excellent today. Should be interesting to see what NZ have left in the bag for next week.

The myth that the rfl had an impetus on the scrum, teams choose not to compete in the scrum, they could quite easily turn it into a proper scrum should they so choose.

Don't see the concern about scrums , they are hardly a big selling point in Union even Brian Moore thinks they are a mess. To be honest I think the comparison between our game and Union is less and less relevant. The aims and techniques are drifting ever further apart.

Exactly, If a union supporting colleague of mine ever tries to say anything negative about League, its about the scrum.

He'll say "yeah but look at the state of the scrums they don't even pack down properly".

To which i'll reply "yeah but we want to watch rugby not scrums, by the time our scrum has pretended to pack down and we've got the ball back in play your union ref is still shouting at your players to bind and engage before you even start on the collapsing of the scrums..... and then you do it three times over before a penalty is awarded".....

and then i'll say something mildly offensive and walk off all smug like......

Union scrums are no less of a joke in their own way & have become nothing more than a playground for petulant referees.