BREAKING NEWS: English Rugby's Controversial New Tackle Law
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Is There a Risk of More Concussions?
In a year's time, because of the change, we can't really say for instance that if they make this change to the law, then things will be better. And where this change of law might cause more concussions to the tackler. So we don't know that exactly. It is an experiment of some sort. If that happens, then we would have to look hard and say, well, why did it happen? Because we've got a pretty good understanding of where the risk is in the current context of the sport is played. When that context changes, if you change that context, you've got to be really alert. The same would happen now if you said the ball
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