Flankers playing at scrum-half? This week’s’Rugby Reloaded’ talks to rugby union journalist Rhiannon Garth Jones about how union’s new positional flexibility seems to reflect the way changes in rugby union are leading it down the same path that league took 100 years ago. Is it merely borrowing from league or is union changing more fundamentally?

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