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2021 British & Irish Lions Tour
Test Match 2: All Blacks v British & Irish Lions (Wellington)
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<blockquote data-quote="galumay" data-source="post: 863059" data-attributes="member: 74590"><p>I think you are completely missing the point of the rules, they are simply about player safety and particularly protecting the head of players. There are plenty of contact sports where these sort of incidents simply dont occur and to dismiss it as "PC" is very naive. The telling thing is that even with the increased penalties for such offences, we are still seeing this sort of reckless contact with the head as happened a number of times in this game. We have seen a number of players both in rugby and diet rugby suffer terrible, long term brain damage from reckless tackles like these, do you really think its responsible for the game' administrators to ignore the potential repucussions on player's health and well being?</p><p></p><p>If anything the current situation suggests the sanctions need to be stronger if anything. As I said, it all comes down to player choices and some players are making very poor ones despite the increased sanctions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="galumay, post: 863059, member: 74590"] I think you are completely missing the point of the rules, they are simply about player safety and particularly protecting the head of players. There are plenty of contact sports where these sort of incidents simply dont occur and to dismiss it as "PC" is very naive. The telling thing is that even with the increased penalties for such offences, we are still seeing this sort of reckless contact with the head as happened a number of times in this game. We have seen a number of players both in rugby and diet rugby suffer terrible, long term brain damage from reckless tackles like these, do you really think its responsible for the game' administrators to ignore the potential repucussions on player's health and well being? If anything the current situation suggests the sanctions need to be stronger if anything. As I said, it all comes down to player choices and some players are making very poor ones despite the increased sanctions. [/QUOTE]
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