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Backlash grows over changes to tackle law

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Paul Rees discovers a fair amount of concern over the RFU's plans to alter rules over tackle height

When the RFU last month announced that the tackle height in the community game would be reduced from July 1, it said the move was designed to reduce head impact exposure and concussion risk in the tackle for both the ball carrier and the tackler.
The announcement followed a meeting of the RFU’s council which heard medical evidence that “higher contact on the ball carrier and closer proximity of the ball carrier and tacklers’ heads are associated with larger impacts (as measure...

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