Yes, the refs also helping out and making sure things are right in the scrums. Scrum halves pushing the scrums into the normal position. Back then, the refs were pretty laid back and if a fight broke out, they would let the guys settle it down for themselves. Back then, the main strategy of rugby union is to work together to move the ball and score tries. They pretty much ignored penalties back then because it was difficult to score a penalty goal. Now you see 4-5 penalties a match in RU. This is not that common during the old days as most game were low scoring affairs. The scrums here were pretty similar to a modern rugby league scrum but pushing occurs. Scrum collapses were almost nonexistent back then. Plus, the average leading try scorers in a club league back had a number of tries that were pretty similar to NRL's leading try scorers numbers. I'll give you one example. Newport winger Peter Rees averaged 14.3 tries a season during his playing career for the club from 1960-1971. In the 1967-68 season, he scored 28 tries. He scored a total of 150 tries in his career.
6:02 - 6:11 - Nos 3 of Ebbw punches out after ball gets kicked through his hands by Bridgends No 5, he goes in with a neck hold and possibly a few choice words, then both players get up and carry on, brilliant.
I've stumbled across this and noticed that the channel is David Turner's. My cousin is David Turner from Ebbw vale/Brynmawr and he died quite young about 6 or 7 years ago. He was rugby mad and I've noticed the last upload was 7 years ago. I feel it must be him but interested to know if anyone knows otherwise?
