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Can’t blame tackle laws for injury toll

A FEW thoughts after looking back at THAT Barbarians versus All Blacks match in 1973.
Yes the lineouts were not exactly balletic and several high tackles were in evidence, but can anyone successfully argue they enjoy quasi-League laws with a climbing injury toll, shambolic scrums and mind-numbing replays as much, let alone more, than the game beloved in the last century?
Don’t fiddle with tackle laws that are symptoms, not root causes of the rot, radically revise the game back to its roots: bring back rucking and old style no-nonsense refereeing, drop the beach wear, red/yellow card...

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