Wales play Australia in the Autumn Internationals tomorrow.  Do we care?  I have loved rugby since I was a teenager growing up with the Welsh wizards of the seventies.  I have worked in the professional game but I am concerned that law changes are needed.

What am I on about - the Millennium Stadium is still sold out for the big matches - it is still the dominant sport in Wales and partly defines our nation. 

Here's my problem:

It has become very boring to watch.

If you take Shane Williams and his flair out of the Welsh side is the match still worth the ticket price?  A many phase progression up the field and lots of ping pong kicking.  Who cares?

The problem is the players are now so fit that there are few gaps and that coupled with seven replacements coming on in the second half (half the team being replaced with new fit models) no tired play in the last ten minutes when all the good rugby used to be traditonally played as the gaps opened up and boredom ensues.

In the old days a player could opnly be replaced if a doctor confirmed he was too injured to continue - this should be reintroduced to have 15 against more or less the same 15 -give skilled players a chance!

I am a huge Gethin Jenkins fan but when your props are that mobile making that many brilliant tackles there is no space anymore. The forwards are exceptional athletes and that has a consequence.

The constant phases is just rugby league - the scrums being won by the team with the put in is...rugby league and the logical answer to create more space on the field is to reduce the players to say 13 - oh, rugby league...

The professional game has caught up with the professionalism of...rugby league so to stay disticntive and original rugby union has to adapt again.

When the game turned professional in Tokoyo in 1995 - it all happened so quickly but it has now settled and it has become boring to watch.

Rugby is a minor world sport with few top countires and relatively few also rans plus a huge gap between the top nations and the minnows.  The growth and Olympic status of Sevens rugby should be a warning.  Rugby union needs to seriously think about adapting the game or I fear it may slowly die....as we might of boredom.

What does anyone think?