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Quote:The Rugby Football Union's second-tier Championship Cup competition will be played under new laws, with the height of a legal tackle below the armpits rather than the line of the shoulders.
It comes after the latest English rugby injury audit revealed a rise in injuries and concussion in the professional game.
Quote:Monkey1Quote:The Rugby Football Union's second-tier Championship Cup competition will be played under new laws, with the height of a legal tackle below the armpits rather than the line of the shoulders.
It comes after the latest English rugby injury audit revealed a rise in injuries and concussion in the professional game.
This could be interesting. There have been plenty of incidents where tackled players have apparently tried to duck into tackles to win a penalty for a high tackle, something that strikes me as dangerous. If they continue to do so under the new restriction, at least they won't be putting their necks into the line of fire, or if they are that stupid it will be a pretty obvious dive.
The game is getting bigger & faster, so no surprise that injuries are increasing. It isn't something that can be ignored, and we don't want to see American Football style helmets & shoulder plates in rugby, so introducing new safety measures to keep the game playable as it is makes sense. The cynic in me does however wonder if the rise in reported concussions is anything to do with the HIA measures being abused? It now seems common practise for players to be rapidly removed from the field for HIA while referees are reviewing an incident that they have been involved in, hoping to influence the referee to get the naughty boy cards out. These players then miraculously return to play a couple of minutes later, fresh as a daisy. If each of these is recorded as a concussion statistic, no wonder it is increasing.