h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I agree that uncontested scrums and lifting inthe lineouts make a mockery of rugby.

And that the field is congested.

The current bout of legal nitpicking will not address the core truth of rugby for the last thirty years, that people have got much bigger and faster and will carry on doing so for a few decades yet.

We are trying to fit a quart into a pint pot.
The one piece of legislation which hasn't been touched in over 100 years is the minimum size of the pitch.
I therefore propose a widening of the international pitch by at least 10 metres for a trial period of five years.
The reuslts would be very enlightening - fun too. And the injury lists currently bedevilling world rugby would also begin to shrivel.