Tighthead props, we are told, are no longer the most important players on a rugby field.
In fact, judging by recent figures for players’ average salaries in the English Premiership, those who anchor scrums are not even among the top five most valued groups, with fly-halves, centres, locks, full-backs and back rowers all paid more than the stolid citizens who operate at the game’s sharpest end.
Deservedly so?
