Injury crises every weekend suggest rugby has reached breaking point | Paul Rees

Turning union into a 13-a-side game or reducing the number of substitutes among proposals to counteract the brutal intensity and cluttered modern gameProfessional rugby is reaching breaking point. And break is the word with each weekend bringing more injury problems. Wasps lost three more players in victory over La Rochelle last weekend: Elliot Daly, Nathan Hughes and Jimmy Gopperth will be out of action for weeks or months, not days.To watch Leicester’s Champions Cup match against Munster on Sunday was more evidence of why the casualty rate owes more to war than sport. It was unrelenting in i…