星／主役にするs on 抱擁する money should serve as a 警告, England use retired Joe Marler to 促進する new 道具… and is Joe Latta's bizarre mullet the craziest in the 首相の職?

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One more 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of the Gallagher 首相の職 before it breaks for Europe ? and there is much to discuss.

This week 星／主役にする Wars, mullets and TMOs all get the 治療, and judicial madness has us yelling from the soapbox.

There’s plenty to feast your 注目する，もくろむs on this 週末 ? with two Rugby 選手権 games 同様に as the usual fare ? so do yourself a favour and get stuck in.

Daunted by the prospect of so many 飛行機で行くing rugby balls you don’t know where to look? The week’s news got you in a 権利 pickle? Never 恐れる, Scrum’s the Word is here.

NEWS FROM ROUND THE GROUNDS

BIG BUCKS BONANZA

Henry Slade and Jack Nowell are on the 瀬戸際 of agreeing new 取引，協定s at Exeter ? we told you as much this week.

That was not much of a surprise as the pair, both 25, were always likely to stay in Devon. One from Plymouth, one Newlyn, Cornwall, ? they have come thr ough the 学院 and become 実験（する） players, Nowell a Lion ? and have been at the heart of Exeter’s wonderful rise from 選手権 also-rans to 首相の職 追跡する-blazers.

So them 調印 up for two more years until 2021, as their 取引，協定s ran out at the end of this season, didn’t have you spitting out your cornflakes.

Henry Slade (R) and Jack Nowell (L) are on the 瀬戸際 of agreeing new 取引，協定s at Exeter

But perhaps their salaries did. We understand Slade will be paid £450,000-a-year, and Nowell £350,000. 効果的に a £1.6million 投資 in two players over two years.

This is rugby’s new norm.

Many took a large intake of breath in December 2015 when Manu Tuilagi ? then 24 ? 調印するd a three-year 拡張 with Leicester Tigers 価値（がある） £425,000 毎年, making him the highest-paid player in England.

Tuilagi’s horrible, and unfortunate, 傷害 記録，記録的な／記録する has meant that 取引，協定 has not 代表するd value for money. He has played just 35 matches in the league and Europe since 調印 ? at a rough cost to Leicester of £36,500 per match.

Exeter will hope to get more out of Slade and Nowell than that.

Now, of course インフレーション across Europe and an 増加するd salary cap means that 給料 have gone up. In 2015-16 the cap was £5.1m ? with two marquee players whose 支払う／賃金 is not counted に向かって that 許すd in the squad.

Manu Tuilagi's unfortunate 傷害 記録，記録的な／記録する at Leicester has seen him earn?£36,500 per match

At the start of the 2017-18 season that 人物／姿／数字 rose to £7m, where it will stay until at least 2020.

The idea was that clubs could 拡大する their squads, to 対処する with the 圧力s of a long three-pronged season, but in reality 最高の，を越す talent just raked in more cash, and squad-sizes stayed 大部分は the same.

So now there is a 状況／情勢 where Slade is の近くに to 収入 half a million 続けざまに猛撃するs 毎年 and is by no means the 最高の，を越す earner in the league, and also teams like Bath feel the only way to 対処する with the 需要・要求するs of a relentless （選挙などの）運動をする is to 効果的に throw a match and put out a ひどく 弱めるd 味方する against Saracens.

It was not meant to work like this.

Look, if a nyone is 許すd to 支払う／賃金 their 星／主役にするs what they want it is Exeter. They are the best-run 商売／仕事 in the 首相の職 ? the only club to make a 利益（をあげる） (£1.1m before 税金 in 2017) ? so good on them for 存在 able to afford rewarding those who have built them up. It would take a 本気で mean-spirited person to begrudge the 長，指導者s their success.

But looking wider it does feel the salary cap, and everything connected to it, needs analysing and 査定する／（税金などを）課すing.

Slade could be on nearly £500,000 a year and not be the highest-paid player in the league

We understand British and Irish Lion 支援する Nowell will be 収入 £350,000 a season

現在／一般に ? within the £7m 加える two outside the cap ? clubs can 肉親，親類d of do what they want. They could have 23 players all on 抱擁する wedge, and hope they all stay fit, or 50 all on いっそう少なく, to 株 the 負わせる.

They could also have 13 tight-長，率いる 支え（る）s, or just three, or spend £6.5m on one player, and give the 残り／休憩（する） peanuts.

明白に that’s an exaggeration but at the moment there is no real guide on how to manage your squad, or 財政／金融s.

You might think it is 生き残り of the fittest, and if some manage it 不正に, then 堅い. But with most clubs losing money ? Worcester £6m before 税金 in 2017 (they have been bought out by a 国際借款団／連合 this week) ? surely a 枠組み would be helpful?

Rugby in England is looking more and more unsustainable financially.

No wonder they are looking for outside 投資.

MULLET MADNESS

承認する, so there’s やめる a 選択 of bold barnets across the 首相の職.

From Marland Yarde’s dreadlocks ? with 追加するd Sale Sharks blue streaks ? to Anthony Watson’s 霜d tips, and Maro Itoje’s high-and-loose locks (which 明らかに takes his barber two-and-a-half hours to sort).

And Joe Marler is always good for a tremendous 削減する. But now we have one to upstage them all.

現在のing lock Joe Latta’s mad mullet. 罰金, it’s a work in 進歩, but blimey it’s a sight. His Bristol team-mate Jake Woolmore has 基本的に shaved all of his hai r off apart from a 重要な section at the 支援する.

It’s 商売／仕事 at the 前線, but not yet the 十分な party at the 支援する. 信用 Scrum’s the Word to keep you updated on its 進歩.

But for now, honestly, Kiwis eh??

現在のing lock Joe Latta’s mad mullet, which was shaved by team-mate?Jake Woolmore

WILL BRIGHTON ROCK?

We 設立する out this week that the biggest shock in World Cup history ? Japan （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing South Africa 34-32 in 2015 ? will be turned into a film.

星／主役にする Wars actor Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in the franchise, has been 手渡すd the 役割 of Eddie Jones, the then 勇敢に立ち向かう Blossoms coach.

First we would love him to go all method and start running 演習s at Pennyhill Park with England to get into the mind of his 支配する.

And secondly, here’s a request to the director ? please get the rugby 権利. 冒険的な films can be so bad at the match-活動／戦闘 ? the 1995 World Cup final in ‘Invictus’ between South Africa and New Zealand is embarrassing. I mean, what is the 審判（をする） up to signalling like that for all the 刑罰，罰則s?!

Thanks Clint Eastwood, eight years on we’re not even angry mate, just disappointed.

We 設立する out this week that the biggest shock in World Cup history will be turned into a film

Japan （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing South Africa 34-32 in 2015 in Brighton during the 2015 World Cup

星／主役にする Wars actor Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett, has been cast as Eddie Jones

MARLER ‘MARE

‘Own the 予期しない’ is the oh-so pointless tagline for the new England home and away shirts ? and it has proven embarrassing for 製造業者s Canterbury.

They are still using images and ビデオ of Joe Marler ? who retired from 実験（する） 義務 last week ? to 促進する the 道具.

Turns out they have not やめる owned this 予期しない 新たな展開 too 井戸／弁護士席.

England are still sending out emails with Joe Marler, who has retired, 促進するing their new 道具

COMMUNICATION STATIONS

Last week we told you that eight 首相の職 clubs have changed their マスコミ 経営者／支配人 in the last 12 months.

井戸／弁護士席 now another has gone. Some have a few all mucking in, but we understand that the two best clubs in the league ? perhaps in Europe ? have all their マスコミ 操作／手術s organised by one person.

Saracens and Exeter may be 最高の，を越す of the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs ? and the two in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 do a 罰金 職業 ? but that’s surely too much work for one person?

And when you factor in the measly salaries some get for the monstrous 量 they are 要求するd to do it is no wonder so many scarper.

For a league trying to sell itself to bigger audiences and the highest 入札者 it is a sorry 明言する／公表する of 事件／事情／状勢s.

LOUW FLYING HIGH

Quick update on the globe-trotting Francois Louw. We told you a month ago about the Bath and South Africa flanker’s ludicrous schedule ? and it has only 強めるd since.

It is fitting he wears No 8 for his country against the All 黒人／ボイコットs on Saturday as since playing for the Boks against Argentina on August 18 in Durban Louw has visited eight cities in seven weeks.

His 十分な 大勝する has been: Durban-Mendoza-Bristol-Brisbane-Wellington-Bath (just for training)-London-Pretoria.

That is a total mileage of 44,521. When he returns to Bath on Monday it will get to 50,000 miles, the 同等（の） of two circumnavigations of the globe. Which is 絶対 ludicrous. Honestly, what are we doing to these guys?

Francois Louw has clocked up a total mileage of 44,521 since playing Argentina on August 18

TMO ? TOO MANY OFFICIALS?

This week World Rugby 発表するd that they would be changing the way 審判（をする）s interact with the Television Match 公式の／役人 ahead of the November 実験（する）s.

They want いっそう少なく 依存 on the man in 前線 of the telly and conversations between them and 公式の／役人s to be 減ずるd ? which is fair enough ? but also are putting an end to ‘on the run’ 雑談（する）.

That was when refs would ask for 解明 on, say, a high 取り組む without stopping the game. The 最高の，を越す whistlers ? like Wayne Barnes ? did it brilliantly, and were rightly 賞賛するd for it. But now it’s 存在 stopped, which seems 半端物.

Surely if it does not 干渉する with the run of the game, that’s perfect? The best could do it, why not the re st?

World Rugby has 発表するd they would be changing the way 審判（をする）s interact with the TMO

SCRUM SOAPBOX ? BAN BINGO

Consistency, please.

We know that individual 競争s are 治める／統治するd by different 特記する／引用するing パネル盤s ? but rugby is in a judicial mess at the moment, because of four 出来事/事件s.

We’ll （一定の）期間 it out.

George Smith ? Saracens v Bristol, September 8. The 耐えるs flanker 取り組むs Saracens 支援する-rower Jackson Wray upright, and seems to make 接触する with the 長，率いる. The ‘殺し屋 angle’ ? the words of the TMO ? shows 長，率いる 接触する. Wray has to go off for a 長，率いる-傷害 査定／評価 and doesn’t play the next week.?

Smith ? rightly ? receives a red card. All hell breaks loose on social マスコミ. Smith goes into his 審理，公聴会 with coach Pat Lam, gives a ‘masterclass’ on 取り組む technique. 直面するs 中断 of up to six weeks. 禁止（する） ? 非，不，無.

George Smith received no 禁止（する） after 存在 sent off for his 取り組む on Saracens' Jackson Wray

Mathieu Bastareaud ? Toulon v Castres, September 9. The Toulon centre, and フラン captain sees Christophe Samson lying on the ground 近づく a ruck, looks him in the 注目する，もくろむ then 粉砕するs his forearm into the lock’s 長，率いる, attacking a defenceless man. He ? rightly ? receives a red card. All hell breaks loose on social マスコミ. 直面するs a 中断 of anything above six weeks ? 10+ if considered ‘最高の，を越す end’. 禁止（する） ? five weeks.

Will Spencer ? Wasps v Leicester, September 16. The Tigers lock catches Wasps hooker Tommy Taylor high. It is 明確に 偶発の, but he is up too high and makes slight 接触する with the 長，率いる. There is nothing 悪意のある in his 活動／戦闘. He ? rightly ? receives a red card. All hell breaks loose on social マスコミ. 直面するs 中断 of up to six weeks. 禁止（する） ? four weeks.

Will Spencer was sent off against Wasps and was 攻撃する，衝突する with a four-week 中断

Dominic Robertson-McCoy ? Connacht v Leinster, September 29. The Connacht 支え（る） sees Josh 先頭 der Flier lying on the ground by a ruck. He looks 負かす／撃墜する at him and callously stamps on the flanker’s 長，率いる with his 権利 foot, attacking a defenceless man. He ? rightly ? receives a red card. All hell breaks loose on social マスコミ. 直面するs a 中断 of anything above six weeks ? 12+ if considered ‘最高の，を越す end’. 禁止（する） ? six weeks.

To 引用する the late cricketing 広大な／多数の／重要な Fred Trueman ? what is going off out there?

THE STATCAVE

100th Saracens match for Maro Itoje against Harlequins on Saturday evening. He’s only 23. Sarries have also won 得点する／非難する／２０ing four or more tries in their last 11 首相の職 matches (含むing the play-offs), a 記録，記録的な／記録する.

Maro Itoje will play his 100th match for Saracens when they play Northampton on Saturday

8 months since Exeter have lost on the road. Their last 敗北・負かす in the league was to Wasps on February 18 ? they go to Bath this 週末.

2003 is the?last time Northampton won three-in-a-列／漕ぐ／騒動 against Leicester. The Saints did the 二塁打 over the Tigers last season, and it’s 15 years since they have ３倍になるd up against their East Midlands 競争相手s.

1 勝利，勝つ in their last eight 首相の職 matches for Sale ? that 存在 the 勝利，勝つ over Worcester in 一連の会議、交渉／完成する two of this season. They’re 底（に届く） of the league and 直面する Newcastle.

Sale have won just one of their last eigh t 首相の職 matches and are 底（に届く） of the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する

7 years?since Gloucester （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Wasps away. That occurred in February 2011 at Adams Park.

2006 was the last 首相の職 victory at Sixways for Bristol. They （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Worcester away in the 選手権 支援する in 2015, but not in the 最高の，を越す-flight for 12 years.

14 successful kicks in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 for Exeter’s Gareth Steenson. He has nailed 18 of 19 転換s this season, and never lined up a 刑罰，罰則 ? a 記録，記録的な／記録する of 94.74 per cent. He also needs eight points for 1,500 in the league.

STATCAVE SAINT OF ROUND FIVE

Alex Goode ? the only place to go. He was 簡単に 最高の against Bath ? 17 carries and a staggering 213 metres made (more than two 十分な lengths of the field unstopped) and nine defenders beaten in six clean breaks. By far the easiest man-of-the-match 決定／判定勝ち（する） so far this season!

Alex Goode was 簡単に 最高の against Bath ? 17 carries and a staggering 213 metr es made

STATCAVE SINNER OF ROUND FIVE

Michael Le Bourgeois ? it did not 事柄 in the end, as Wasps （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Newcastle 23-22 at Kingston Park, but their inside-centre 行方不明になるd six 取り組むs. Not ideal.

EDDIE’S WORLD CUP WATCH

Jones is 支援する from his Japan recce and will see three matches this 週末. First up it’s Northampton v Saracens, where Dylan Hartley and Manu Tuilagi are sure to catch his attention. Then he’ll 阻止する over the road from Twickenham to Quins v Saracens ? to check how Marcus Smith fares against Owen Farrell, and on Sunday he will catch Worcester v Bristol ? to 査定する／（税金などを）課す the 進歩 of 支え（る） Nick Schonert.?