How do you make rugby a safer sport?
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Blood and thunder, guts and glory.
The Six Nations has always been defined by physical confrontation, but this winter has seen the bodies piling up like seldom before.
George North,
struck twice on the head
with sickening force.
His Wales team-mate Samson Lee concussed, the forehead of his fly-half Dan Biggar lacerated in another collision.
That was just the opening match.
In the games since, Italy have lost two players to knee injuries, England their full-back
Mike Brown to concussion,
Ireland their number eight
Jamie Heaslip
…
The Six Nations has always been defined by physical confrontation, but this winter has seen the bodies piling up like seldom before.
George North,
struck twice on the head
with sickening force.
His Wales team-mate Samson Lee concussed, the forehead of his fly-half Dan Biggar lacerated in another collision.
That was just the opening match.
In the games since, Italy have lost two players to knee injuries, England their full-back
Mike Brown to concussion,
Ireland their number eight
Jamie Heaslip
…
