Jack Burton wrote:If you think about any changes that are made are on a spectrum, and the easiest to do is to do nothing and leave things as they are, and the hardest thing to do would be to ban tackling above the belly button, as they were originally going to do in union, then lowering the tackle height to the armpit seems an ok compromise. The trial games were definitely a mess, but the data from those games showed it did significantly reduce the number of head contacts and accelerations, which is the primary objective. But a lot of work and dialogue is going to have to happen by all involved in order to make it watchable.
The coaches seemed pretty optimistic that the changes would be positive in the long-term, prior to the trial, but they'll know it will be a huge task to adjust in time for next season. I just hope they've started incorporating it into their training sessions.
Yes but I don’t accept it’s necessary to go to armpit and below, that’s the point.
This isn’t scientific. It’s a process of trying to find evidence that someone is right. They’re clutching at straws trying to build a case to reduce tackle height in the senior game. The academy games were literally a shambles and all you say is that players need to get used to it.
