In this month’s issue we take a long hard look at the topic that has got everyone in the Northern Hemisphere hot under the collar – the Experimental Law Variations. Currently being trialled in the Super 14, we pay a visit to the Southern Hemisphere to find out what the reception has been like for the changes the IRB is so keen on, and ask whether they will soon be heading the way of the Premiership. We also ask four of rugby’s brightest brains, Bob Dwyer, Brian Ashton, Warren Gatland and Rassie Erasmus what they make of the new laws.

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