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Rugby Football Union aims to outlaw tackles, but making rugby a safer sport might have unpleasant side effects

In the northern hemisphere there is anger at the move to all but do away with one of the things that make rugby the great game it is. In the southern hemisphere a handful of men are trying to hold on to a thing that now adds nothing to the sport.The Rugby Football Union’s decree to outlaw tackles above the waist at non-professional level from this summer has been greeted with dismay and confusion.

There are a lot of community players with a lot of waist. Is it just above the groin area? Or in line with the hip area? Or where the tummy begins its swelling into beerdom?Andy Farrell, the coach of Ireland and father of Owen, he of the prominent shoulders, believes tackling lower could be more dangerous for the tackler:“If you are ever just saying to a kid ‘you need to tackle lower’, then you become even more vulnerable in my opinion.

 

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