Time for planning to prevent injuries

IT is now time rugby union stopped turning a Nelsonian blind eye to the game’s unacceptable injury crisis. In last week’s TRP, Professor John Fairclough provided a damning indictment of World Rugby’s player welfare platitudes detailing how concussed players are still being returned to play. But while putting out a fire effectively should be a major priority, is it not better to prevent the blaze occurring in the first place? Just view Eben Etzebeth’s controversial clear-out tackle on the teenage Georgian wing Davit Niniashvili in the Challenge Cup fin...

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