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 handling...
