Rugby used to be for all sizes

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THEgame has changed… if I had a pound for every time I’ve heard that, rich I might be. But has the game changed? Or is it that the referees interprete the same laws differently – maybe under guidance of World Rugby/RFU. There was a movement to make rugby safer even though it had existed for many years with only occasional bad injuries. These injuries were usually avoided by good coaching at school level in how to tackle correctly, where to put your head and what height you entered the tackle.
Plus rucking and mauling kept the big boys out the way of the pretty boys. Playe...

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