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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1120281" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>I don't think it will work. The threat of a red card is already there for head contact yet it still happens. I think lowering the tackle height at this stage will just increase red cards and not lower the height of tackles. The disincentive to go high is already there yet players still do it. Say the height is lowered to armpits, any player running into contact can duck down and that would require the defending player to almost fold in half to get low enough for risk of a red if they hit the chest. I imagine you'd just see even more reds and relatively little change in the tackle height, high contact would likely happen just as much.</p><p></p><p>It's like you see with crime, people think if you keep ramping up the severity of punishment for committing crimes, the crime rate will drop. It doesn't happen like that. The biggest disincentive is already there so I'd say the level we are at now is likely where it will stay. It's already at maximum risk, minimal reward.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1120281, member: 56232"] I don't think it will work. The threat of a red card is already there for head contact yet it still happens. I think lowering the tackle height at this stage will just increase red cards and not lower the height of tackles. The disincentive to go high is already there yet players still do it. Say the height is lowered to armpits, any player running into contact can duck down and that would require the defending player to almost fold in half to get low enough for risk of a red if they hit the chest. I imagine you'd just see even more reds and relatively little change in the tackle height, high contact would likely happen just as much. It's like you see with crime, people think if you keep ramping up the severity of punishment for committing crimes, the crime rate will drop. It doesn't happen like that. The biggest disincentive is already there so I'd say the level we are at now is likely where it will stay. It's already at maximum risk, minimal reward. [/QUOTE]
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