R: [RUGBYLIST] Addio all'ingaggio in mischia?

[Pier Luigi Maciocia]

Io pure
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Per conto di A Zibana
Inviato: martedì 10 ottobre 2006 18.34
A: Luigi Bocchino; rugbylist a rugbylist.it
Oggetto: Re: [RUGBYLIST] Addio all'ingaggio in mischia? 


Indubbiamente é logico fare il possibile per evitare infortuni che il
maggior peso degli avanti di oggi facilitano rispetto agli anni in cui
giocavo ( 1949 . 1951 ) Il pacchetto della Rugby Parma poteva pesare al
massimo 680 - 700 kg contro i quasi 900 di oggi.Allora però si poteva
comtrasyere per ottenere una posizione favorevole quando ers l'avvrsario a
rimettere. Questo era fonte dicapocciate e si arrivava anche a morsi come
capitò a me. Il giorno dopo dovetti inventare una scusa in uffiicio dove
avevo cominciato da poco a lavorare.-
Allora erano molte le cravatte per fermare l'avversario ma era difficile
vedere un avversario calpestato nel gioco a terra.
Meno fisicità ma azioni che vedevano la palla arrivare più facilmente
all'ala.
Improponibile paragonare il rugby d'allora con l'attuale ma io rimango
legato a quello.
 
Antonio 
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Luigi  <mailto:giggibocchino a yahoo.it> Bocchino 
To: rugbylist a rugbylist.it 
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:20 AM
Subject: [RUGBYLIST] Addio all'ingaggio in mischia? 

da scrum.com
 
Scrummaging law change expected to be endorsed
08 Oct 2006   
A planned law change to outlaw scrum collisions is expected to be ratified
at a full International Rugby Board meeting in Dublin next month. 
 
The move, that has been prompted by a spate of injuries at all levels of the
game, may also be followed by further ammendments concerning the tackle
area. 
 
Following a two-day conference last week the IRB medical committee are
proposing a change that would outlaw the practice of front rows charging at
each other to form a scrum. 
 
Instead scrums would start with the two front rows opposite each other
before manoeuvring themselves into position, ensuring neither side had any
significant forward momentum before the ball was fed in. 
 
The change to Law 20 will be put forward at a full board meeting in Dublin
next month and is expected to be ratified that will make it effective from
January 1.  
 
Law 20 currently states: "Before the two front rows come together, they must
be standing no more than an arm's length apart."  
 
But the IRB's medical committee has recommended that change is made to
follow the Under-19 variation, whereby each prop should be touching his
opponent's upper arm prior to engagement - thus cutting out the charge. 
 
The Rugby Football Union has been a key player in the move for change after
such high profile injuries as that sustained by Matt Hampson during an
England Under-21 scrummaging session.  
 
Estimates place the force the three front-row men have to shoulder at around
750kg and it is clear that spinal columns, discs and necks are not designed
to bear that kind of load.  
 
Martyn Thomas, chairman of the RFU Management Board, believes it may be the
first of many changes to make the game safer. 
 
"Player safety is an issue which is being addressed urgently, and changing
the way a scrum is set is a start," Thomas told The Guardian.  
 
"I would like to see the IRB adopt the Under-19 rule that when one side is
reduced to seven men in the scrum because a player has been sent off or
sin-binned, the other team has to follow suit.  
 
"I know there will be a hue and cry at any changes to the way scrums
operate, but one serious injury in rugby is too many. Our job as
administrators is to respect the principles of the game while at the same
time reducing the potential risks for players. Studies show that more
serious injuries occur at the tackle area than in the scrum and this is
another area which needs to be addressed." 
 
Earlier this year Dr James Bourke, a consultant general surgeon at Queen's
Medical Centre, Nottingham, and also honorary medical officer to the city's
National League Division One club, called for a change to uncontested
scrums.  
 
Writing in the British Medical Journal, he said that over the 30 years he
had been at Nottingham Rugby Club he had seen seven serious spinal cord
injuries, six of which were related to the contested scrum.  
 
"The consequences of injury are so great that the continuing risk of injury
cannot be accepted."  
 
Contested scrums were banned in Australian rugby league in 1996 and there
have been no acute spinal cord injuries since, the BMJ article said.  
 
On the other side of the world, Australia coach John Connolly, formerly
coach of Premiership side Bath, has welcomed the change. 
 
"The injuries are less than they used to be, but everyone is very conscious
that one (paraplegic) is one too many," Connolly told the Sunday Mail.
"Anything that helps the safety of the game is fine by me. 
 
"Most people won't notice the change. There will still be scrummaging and it
will probably help speed up the game by cutting down on collapsed and reset
scrums." 
 
The highest profile Australian victim of a scrum injury recently was prop
Ben Darwin, whose career was ended by a neck injury in a collapsed scrum in
the 2003 World Cup semi-final against the All Blacks in Sydney. 
 
However 1991 and 1999 Rugby World Cup winning prop Dan Crowley has
criticised the move. 
 
"That one ruling would be one of the most significant rule changes in the
history of the game," he told the same newspaper. "The scrum is all about
impact; it is all about winning the battle at the advantage line. 
 
"What is this, rugby league? If this goes through, goodbye Rodney Blake,
goodbye Os du Randt. Why would you want a 130kg player? 
 
"You'd be better off putting a small, fast bloke like Phil Waugh into the
front row and teaching him the right body position to stop him getting blown
away. 
 
"It doesn't matter how big or powerful a front row is, if the other side
gets its body position right you aren't going to dominate it from a standing
start. Everything comes from the hit before the scrum." 
 
Recent refereeing disparities highlighted in the Anglo-Welsh Cup may also
see further changes when it comes to the tackle area. 
 
In fact the RFU's injury audit, which was published last year, showed
tackling was responsible for more injuries than scrummaging.  
 
"There is room for subjectivity in the laws of the game and we have a group
looking at this issue," IRB communications officer, Greg Thomas told The
Guardian. 
 
"We are centralising research into injuries and all unions will be
contributing their data to allow us to see exactly why injuries are
happening and put a prevention programme into place. A number of
recommendations for law changes are being put to the council next month.
They are being sent out to all the unions and it is too early to say what
will be agreed."  
 


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