LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Rugby's clampdown on high tackles is changing the approach to the breakdown, swinging the advantage to ball-stealers and, say players and coaches, making the "jackal" an ...
Banning the jackal – the means by which players compete for the ball at a breakdown – has been proposed as a radical law tweak to make modern rugby union safer. Dr Barry O’Driscoll has devoted most of ...
While Munster and Connacht played out a tight-fought and historical interprovincial match in MacHale Park, Cian Prendergast sustained a head knock that reminds us rugby union still has an unacceptably ...