The New Zealand Rugby Union has announced they have no plans follow advice by British doctors remove contact rugby from schools.
A group of 70 doctors in the UK has written to the British government asking it to take tackles and scrums out of school rugby.
The doctors said schools were putting them at risk of concussion and other serious injuries if they played contact rugby.
New Zealand Rugby Union already work alongside ACC to ensure children were safe when they play rugby.
Children played rugby in grades according to their age and weight and are taught the correct techniques as they progressed.
About 123,000 children play rugby in this country. In 2014, there were 28,000 injuries from rugby players who were under-18. A total of 1300 of these were concussions.
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i think you are allowed to play rugby
we should use tackles because if we don’t
then kids wont be good at rugby and if you
don’t want tackles you should ripper rugby
rugby is an awesome sport it should stay. definitely
keep rugby!!!!!
Why do they wanna remove scrums and tackles from rugby isn’t that the whole point of rugby.
What a game
Thats not rugby without the scrums and tackling
Leave rugby alone mannnnnnnnnnn
Not really into it my self but I agree that is the point of rugby
What’s rugby with out any tackles is’nt that point of the game that’s all the action the tackels
Do you really want your kids being soft and every time someone touches them they cry and go owwwww.
I completely understand what they are doing but isn’t this our choice to play rugby. It our decision but what is the point of the game without tackling!!!
RUGBY FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I completely understand what they are doing about concussions but isn’t this our choice to play rugby. It our decision but what is the point of the game without tackling!!!
Rugby is New Zealand’s foundation we should be allowed to play it