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Confusion rules over high tackle crackdown

Paul Rees says there needs to be clarity over challenges that come after a carrier's late change of direction
Rugby's disciplinary system encourages players who have been sent off or cited to plead guilty. Coughing to a charge can get their ban halved, if it is accompanied by an apology, with more relief if they take a tackle course.
Owen Farrell challenged that last week having been sent off, after a review, for a high tackle on Wales’s replacement forward Taine Basham at Twickenham. It looked a red card offence with Basham subsequently failing a head injury assessment, although that was lat...

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