RUGBY MATTERS

BRENDAN GALLAGHER

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IT’S looking bleaker and bleaker out there for schools rugby this season but Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens tournament director Andrew Higgins has not given up hope of staging the 2021 tournament in March.
Higgins, however, has raised the possibility that it might have to be held under a modified version of the RFU’s ‘Ready4Rugby’ regulations which is essentially touch rugby without lineouts and scrums – and no kicking above shoulder height. It is als...