Is it my memory playing up or didn't scrum-halfs used to play the full 80, or maybe just get subbed for the last 10 once convincingly in the bag. Simpson, for example, who I still really miss. And always seems a high stakes gamble to break the half-backs rythm mid-game, so why do we these days bake this into an almost Eddie Jones cake?
And sometimes it's been an on-form Porter getting ditched, not just Robson (who wasn't exactly top of his own game last season; thankfully, looking revived recently).
These days, my heart sinks every time we swap around half-time as far too often marks a turn for the worse a desperate gambit. Also seems to be an unwelcome trend for us to do the same with other players having a good outing, and then all going wrong arounb that position and even beyond - why would you take someone playing out of their skin and glueing things together off? Front row, I get...
I actually think Porter worth backing in rotation but not for this half-game nonsense, which probably does him no good personally either. And what does Robson think about bench-warming, unless nursing something?
Anyone able to set me right in this, beyond welfare (which also doesn't seem to be working for us in recent years), as clearly beyond my grasp...