Is lowering the tackle area a waist of time?
And many more talking points from a busy weekend.
This was a hard-hitting take, if you’ll excuse the pun, on rugby’s latest attempt to reduce concussions.
From next season, tacklers will be penalised for any contact above the waist of the ball carrier in the community game in England. If “successful” and implemented more widely, it would represent one of the more radical reimaginings…
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