Agreed. If we are not going to contest them then I would rather speed the game up and just have a tap or PTB.

The scrum has also become an excuse for a rest and the rule where you can stop the clock if you form the scrum is pretty daft, all the players then relax and different players form the next scrum.

A scrum in the opposition quarter allows the attacking team to move the ball quickly towards a depleted defence line giving a greater chance of a score, much more of a chance than a tap against all thirteen players who are set and ready.

The scrum serves as a way of restarting play after a stoppage and also ties the forwards up, thus creating much more space on the field for the backs to attack. At least rugby league doesn't waste 2 minutes at a time on reset scrum after reset scrum after reset scrum. A scrum is nothing more than a means for a restart, it gets too much focus in union.

The scrums break so quickly in RL, that there is seldom any advantage gained..

And nearly always ends up in a penalty anyway.

RU is played in a fog of technicalities that have rendered it a non-spectacle. All of that would have to go before we could seriously consider a hybrid sport, and as their posturing, school-master type referees seem to revel in the making or breaking of match results, I can't see that happening any time soon.