SO THE New Zealanders are suddenly worried about the injury fall-out from Super Rugby Aotearoa. Welcome to the 21st century. Players have been going down like ninepins in England and France for ever and a day.
How do we depower the power game and save rugby from itself? It’s a question in need of an answer, so here goes: weight restrictions.
It is entirely possible to impose some kind of limit as a means of decreasing the avoirdupois averages and removing some of the human tonnage from the field of play.
You could go down the total weight route. If La Rochelle are addicted to the 152kgs of...