Rule tweaks incoming?

[Captain Apollo]

Contact sports will exist, they will adjust, even if ultimately they have to get their legal teams involved and structure contracts in such a way that the players sign waivers on the basis that the best practices/equipment etc. of the day is being used.

Nah. They'll get the legal teams to make submissions to the referee on who should win the game, and the referee will then award the game to one side after considering the submissions. Each teams gets 35 minutes for its presentation, leaving the referee 10 minutes to ask any questions and then read out his/her decision on why the team won.

It'd be brilliant entertainment

 

[T-Boon]

Agree with this. If you ban the kick off, do you then get rid of penalty taps so a prop can’t have a run up, do you also ban long kicks in general play so that a fullback can’t steam it back at 100 mile an hour?
I posted the below elsewhere on my view of the only real fix (other than becoming a non-contact sport)….

Kick off is a harder collision that those others you mentioned as the runner and the defence are running at each other at kick offs.

 

[T-Boon]

The knights under 19s captain was knocked out cold from a kick off a few weeks ago.

 

[Chins get the wins]

The knights under 19s captain was knocked out cold from a kick off a few weeks ago.

Yeah it's a tough sport