Quote ="roughyedspud"honest question...
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Sounded more like a distasteful point scoring exercise following a tragic death of 21 year old.
If it was an honest question why did you ask if he was kicked about once tackled ? Seems like you were enquiring if the cause of his death was because he was viciously attacked.
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union players can and have broken their necks in scrums...so wondering how this guy got injured is a legitimate enquiry because if a player died because he got stuck in the bottom of something and got kicked/squashed etc... it poses serious questions on the game imo'"
He got his injuries from a tackle, his head made contact with the ground which was the cause of the injuries not related to a scrum of being . There are marginally more RL neck injuries than RU ones. There are marginally more serious neck injuries in RU. Few injuries occur once a ruck has formed the injuries typically occur from the contact of the tackle and the player hitting the ground. The rules on RL tackles are more of a risk than RU rules and that is where most of the injuries occur from legitimate tackles.
In the next 10 years both sports are going to have serious issues regarding player welfare.
