Quote Originally Posted by ken smith View Post
Just call it wendyball and have done with it.

The hits these days are so big, I wonder if a load of rugby players will end up with Parkinson's when they are older.
Too true, there is no historic precedent whereby the effects of the sort of collisions that are fairly commonplace today could be measured, because it just never used to happen back in the days when avoiding contact was actually a very important part of the game.