Re: Safer Rugby League from 2024 : Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:45 am
Playing these rules will make it more dangerous. If you go high with a shoulder to shoulder tackle what you do is slow down the attacker for your other team mates to go low which is safer than going low. If you low you risk an elbow or a knee, or another players head who is going low at the same time.
In this day and age where there is a rise of mma, bare knuckle boxing and slap fighting the RFL need to get a grip and tell the do gooders to shove it otherwise we won’t have a sport.
Kids Muay Thai you only punch to the head after age 14. Kids are too light to be causing much damage to their brains in contact, that happens when you have 2 x 16kg blokes smashing into each other.
If anything I think they should reduce how many metres defensive lines go back from 10m to 8m and introduce a maximum weight a player can be to 110kg and slowly reduce over time.
