‘Sort out season to end injury mayhem’

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By NEALE HARVEY

Warning: Toby Booth

BATH coach Toby Booth has urged Premiership Rugby to come clean over season structure changes amid an injury crisis that has left some topflight squads at breaking point.
With amendments to breakdown laws resulting in increased ball-in-play time and contacts, concussions and contact injuries have reached epidemic proportions, making it impossible for teams like Bath, who recently had 19 frontline stars out injured, to manage squads.
Booth claims the number of contacts in a game has nearly doubled over the last five years and wants to see how Premiershi...

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