Parra have given away two penalties now for taking too long to set their scrum, and Brandy or Vossy suggested they might be doing it to reset their line.
If so that could be a sneaky little trend that comes into the game.
They've given them away when inside their own 20m... so you remove the risk of conceding a try when there are less defenders and more room for attacking plays. The result was a penalty tap in the middle of the field... I don't know if they're able to take a shot at goal off the back of that penalty (scrums are weird with differential penalties and stuff), but if you can't take a shot at goal then you're stuck with the tap and every team is just taking a settler on a tap in the middle of the field and they're basically losing a tackle to do anything compared to what they could do off a scrum.
If teams can take a shot at goal then you're potentially not getting much of a benefit, because teams can go ahead by more points if you just keep giving away penalties inside your 20m.
It could become situational though... if the team getting the penalty is behind and time is running out, they're not taking a shot at goal even if they could... and because teams are never winning against the scrum... you're potentially getting an advantage from conceding the penalty and a tap midfield.
