Schalk Burger has doubled down on his prediction that World Rugby will expand the replacements bench on player safety grounds.
While so many ex-players and pundits have called for the bench to be reduced from the current number of eight, including former referee Nigel Owens, Burger predicts that it will go in the other direction.
Last year, Owens said that reducing the number of replacements would result in lighter athletes and would in turn speed up matches. He is not alone in believing that the bench should be made smaller, with ex-Ireland hooker Keith Wood and former Scotland head coach Matt
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