As the RFU prepares to release figures on the biggest problem in rugby, players’ chief Richard Bryan tells Chris Hewett where progress is being made A new set of carefully audited injury statistics will be published by Twickenham next month and if, as seems likely, there is another increase in concussion rates – perhaps the […]
Neurosurgeon critical of rugby’s ‘excessive aggression’ Broken necks and serious brain injuries don’t result from other school sports – surgeon “As a ‘rugby parent’ I’ve observed the school and club game at close quarters, from both sides of the touchline. What I’ve seen and heard suggests that our thinking on the subject may not be […]