Sports Run It Straight
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For all the condemnation, I think the general public knows more about this sport that ever now.
Any publicity is good publicity - even a death???
Any publicity is good publicity - even a death???
Like I say it is a threat to the future of our sport.
Drawing bad association with collision Rugby formats.
There is no coaching safety net, poor technique, dangerous technique is not audited or supervised by people with experience.
Also in a league team, properly run, if a player is dazed, as happens often, the coaches if they are good coaches monitor the player long after the incident. This is because the coach is a grass roots league person who cares about his or her players, the coach often knows the family, and they certainly know what the baseline functioning or normal behavior of the player looks like.
These dudes are reliant on friends and family who may well have no sense of concussion having not been around it or experienced it themselves.
Often times on a Saturday or Sunday a good coach ends up driving a player to an A and E clinic to get checked...that has been going on since the dinosaurs played, because league coaches know sometimes players die. A safety net that just isn't there with this backyard H.I.A Russian roulette fest.
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Covering their arses so they don’t get sued
I like the idea of run it straight. It’s a good one but the focus should be on improving tackling techniques and maybe a very simple objective of the defender stands 5m from the try line and ball carrier needs to get the ball down to score.
It’s not just about head on collisions. Tackling low around the legs can be promoted. I love seeing a guy cut down from a text book low tackle around the legs.
Very much a hybrid of the game for both rugby and league
But both players need to wear head gear mouth guard and chest pads
It’s a win win for the sport and can use it to promote the game in the US
Just needs better regulation and safety
You promote it then point out they don't have basic safety equipment like mouth guards.
Head Gear does F all unfortunately, it helps a little but those wearing it will often go harder because of it, and risk more damage.
Yes the NZRL are afraid of lawsuits. But they are not covering their arses because the NZRL and the NRL already know they are going to be taken to court in the future.
The problem for the NZRL and NRL is that this activity shows the most dangerous side of their game in a microcosm, which lacks the full picture of the beauty of the sport of Rugby league which has many wonderful aspects outside of running the ball straight.
There is a reason League tries to have three man tackles and tries to avoid one on one tackles with a half vs a Prop.
RTS should put his entrepreneurs cap on and set on up in the same format, but best step. Run at the tackler and put on your best step to bamboozle them
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Not just the step
Attacking corner aerial tries from
DWZ would be spectacular to watch
Promote both attack and defence
Bottle up the best plays into one sequence then you have a marketing idea that can take off
Pm me. I think we’re onto something
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