Everyone you speak to in rugby recognises that head contact is a serious matter but there is frustration about how the game is refereed
The sending off of Curry has coaches all over the world worried about the future of the game That record was set four years ago, meaning that half of all World Cup dismissals have taken place in the last four years.
He says: “And if there’s less of a target to go at, there’s less space for heads, so there’s more chance for heads to collide.” Radford, like so many top defence coaches, comes from a league background, having played for Hull FC, Bradford Bulls and England before going on to coach at Hull and Castleford. It means this is not his first rodeo when it comes to rules being tightened around head contact.
There are green shoots though, and the odd optimist. Paul Gustard is a former England and Saracens defence coach, now at Stade Francais, believes evolution is possible and while union can expect some pain, there is light at the end of the tunnel No one is quite sure what that is. Some footage from community rugby, where the tackle height and more controversially ball-carrier height trial is in full swing, shows a stark version of the game where a great many previously legal and innocuous collisions have been outlawed.“The best thing that can happen to the game is the less we’re talking about yellows and reds for head-highs, the better for the sport. The less it’s spoken about, the better, for me,” says Radford.
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