Why the Breakdown Has Become Rugby’s Most Decisive Battleground

Once upon a time, the breakdown was treated as rugby’s necessary pause — a moment to reset before the next phase unfolded. Those days are gone. Today, the ruck is where matches are won or lost in the blink of an eye, a brutal contest of timing, technique and nerve that shapes everything that follows. […] The post Why the Breakdown Has Become Rugby’s Most Decisive Battleground appeared first on The Rugby Paper.