It Is What It Is

The more something changes the more it reamins the same.
Rugby is a game, that no matter what the laws changes amount to, those who have a passion for it will always secretly wish that the changes didn't occur but will follow the sport just as wholeheartedly.
At least that is what I have found the case to be.
What drives spectators, entertainment seekers, partygoers and that ilk who think of rugby as an evening well spent don't really follow the laws much at all.
In the scope of the laws, most spectators don't understand the complicated issues now supposedly drafted to make the game more interesting.
Even in the early nineties when the scorelines were still 6-3, I complained and belly ached but it never once stopped my enthusiasm for watching the 6N. That was when the 6N were the hottest ticket around.
That's all changed now with the hype of the World Cup and the advent of the 3N and the S14 but there was a time when players didn't play fifty times a year and were rugby notables when they achieved the twenty caps.
Those were the days.
Now the IRB is back tinkering with the game as if it really needs tinkering.
My Gawd, didn't the France/All Blacks match let us all know that the game still exists and exudes skill and passion?
Who cares if the Scots and the Pumas and England are drab/
What we are interested in is results.
The Boks won all those tournaments(lucky by my reckoning) playing English style boring rugby.
We didn't have to wait all that long before club sides started beating them.
It is not the beginning of the end. It is simply the end of the beginning.
It is all out of our hands now.
But beware the powerful RFU!!!!!
They will conspire to make Martin Johnson a hero once again.