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Cut the bench to reduce the risk of injuries

AS the broken body count in the Premiership rises, with a growing consensus that the greater ball-in-play time under the new laws is contributing to the rise in damaging collisions, there is one area where I agree with Rob Andrew.
In a Radio 4 interview this week, Andrew said that the physicality of the current pro game was light years away from the form of Rugby Union he played in the amateur era.
The decorated former England and Lions flyhalf observed that the dial had been turned too far in favour of sheer power and bulk, and that the super-sizing of the game had to be redressed by turni...

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