A Warringah Scrum 18 Months in the Making
By Angus Kennelly
Two pushover tries, four tightheads and four scrum penalties. It was 10 dominant scrums that proved the difference in Warringah’s impressive win over University of QLD last weekend.
If the Rats Australian Club Championship win is anything to go by, it seems Warringah have picked up exactly where they left off last season and their scrum played a big part in that.
Rats scrum coach Damien Cummins believes the club is reaping the benefits of training that began in October 2016.
“It has been a lot of hard work, we have been working with a core group of players for 18 months now.”
However Cummins attributes the clubs instantaneous return to form to a Christmas without scrums.
“When I first joined the Rats I did a lot of scrum work before Christmas.”
“This year we started scrum training in mid January. A lot of the boys played in the National Rugby Championship and we didn’t want them to burn out halfway through this season. To be honest