It all made the game fast and, IMO at least, exciting. Scoots from dummy half were only done perhaps half a dozen to a dozen times a game, and they rarely led to the DH running through to just score. More, it was then that a team prepared and ready to take advantage of the subsequent disarray in the opposition defence could then put on an attacking move to score.
Our own Vila Matautia was great at getting the quick PTB. That time he dove at the legs of the piescum player and nobbled him The six-fingered freaks in the stands of the borrowed ground were going apeshit.