It's all academic: key areas in rugby's contract battle

It's all academic: key areas in rugby's contract battle

Australian rugby powerbrokers have weighed in on the battle to contract the code's best talent and renewed calls to outlaw a "catastrophic" tackle technique.

It’s all academic: key areas in rugby’s contract battle

Sam Cordingley has urged World Rugby to outlaw a “catastrophic” tackle technique and has solutions for a talent retention problem outgoing Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt thinks won’t go away. The Queensland Reds football boss has doubled down on his calls for the hip-drop tackle to be documented in rugby’s rules as a dangerous tackle after star back Treyvon Pritchard was the latest victim during the under-20s World Cup. Pritchard’s ankle was fractu…