Warning: Alan Solomons
LAW trials aimed at enhancing player welfare by producing a more freeflowing game risk ruining Premiership rugby, warns Worcester rugby director Alan Solomons.
A recent three-day symposium hosted by World Rugby ended with delegates tasking the game’s governing body to explore a raft of potential law changes aimed at reducing the number of injuries from tackles, which account for up to 50 per cent of all match injuries.
Radical changes could see the introduction of a Rugby League-style 50-22 kick designed to pin back more defenders, stricter tackle height laws...