If that mentality keeps up though, we'll be playing Xbox Rugby League to decide matches. Everyone will get an HIA. It's a physical game. Rapana not getting an HIA, if you call out anyone who looks like they're HIA, practically everyone gets their head knocked during a game. How Rapana didn't get called is beyond logic. Clearly there is not enough people capable of judging from afar. It might not even be possible. How many times does a player pull up with an injury and nobody knows how except the player?
What I'm saying is that there are so many HIAs, if we're serious about player safety, the game should be banned. Instead we're in a halfway place, where we make arbitrary decisions that deem people unfit to play who are fine, or misses out the ones who are not. We used to play in the quad, on concrete at KBHS.
It's more dangerous today because they're athletes. Maybe it's time to make headgear compulsory? I can't see HIAs going away, or mistakes in tackles. Just my opinion.
