Rugby must face reality – Sir Bill, it’s reliant on you

WORLD Rugby’s new guidance limiting full contact training to just 15 minutes a week reflects the game’s sad failure to end its unacceptable injuries crisis.Professional rugby players on average spend a quarter of their careers injured. The fact 35/40 per cent of injuries occur in training reflects their gladiatorial courage playing a sport now shown producing permanent brain damage.Rugby is too collision based, warping its all important skill/power balance. The ignored solution is ending sides keeping the ball for as many as 40 phases by banning tackled players hand...

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