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Fixing the scrum
Surely the idea of reducing the points for a scrum penalty is going down the wrong route for a solution (Face-off: Should the value of penalties from scrums be reduced?).
Law 19 says the purpose of a scrum is “to restart play with a contest for possession after a minor infringement or stoppage”, so anything that leads to a penalty from that means points could be scored as a result of a minor infringement such as a knock-on or forward pass.
Any infringement in the scrum itself