Stop these bench players from rushing into the in-goal area

HOW much longer are referees going to allow tries when sides have 19 or 20 players on the field of play?

On numerous occasions, members of the bench, doing exercises or just loitering behind the dead ball line, rush into the in-goal area preparing to hug and smooch their players eons before they touch down, thus denying the opposition room for last-ditch tackles.

This is particularly true of an interception score, as we saw from Leicester’s only try in the Anglo-Welsh final last Sunday. JEREMY BRIEN Bristol

YOU MAY feel, as I do, that a team with a weak scrum has no advantage in their own 22 (or elsewhere) when they are awarded a put in due to a mishandled ball by the opposition.

Surely it would be fairer that when a forward pass or knock on occurs the referee gives the option of a scrum or a FREE KICK.

While this alteration to the rules would require World Rugby sanctioning it would certainly speed up the game without removing this set piece altogether. TONY HAIGH Northallerton