**Ben Ryan does not want to sound like a broken record, but when it comes to the breakdown he knows that a major change is needed.** The Olympic gold-medal winning Sevens coach has been banging the drum for fixing rugby’s most problematic area for the best part of a decade. Earlier this year he spoke about it in detail on the Under the Sticks podcast, and it seems World Rugby might have been listening, with new guidelines released this week on how the breakdown should be officiated. Back in February, Ryan had explained to Andy McGeady and Adam Redmond on Under the Sticks, just how and why he was so passionate about effecting drastic change to the breakdown, and particularly eliminating croc rolls – where players use their weight as a lever to drag an opposing player to the ground, often resulting in knees or ankles getting caught and serious injury. Ryan explained said: “I’ve been going on about it for a long time. It goes back to 2012 when I was coaching England Sevens. There was a Sevens final between New Zealand and Fiji and two Fijians got ACL injuries from crocodile rolls. It started the process of asking why that was being allowed to be refereed when under law, it says you are not deliberately allowed to come off your feet at a ruck or to deliberately collapse a ruck. “When I went to Fiji I kept going with that and for one year the rest of the referees and coaches agreed that this is illegal. We banned it in Sevens and it became a cleaner breakdown across the board and everyone was happy and injuries dropped. Then they decided at the end of the year, the RFU asked why do we have a different set of laws in Sevens to XVs? So they went back to the original way the game was getting refereed, which was the wrong way. “That’s where it started for me.”