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• That’s totally different though, it didn’t change the fabric of the rugby game. The equivilant to rugby would be to ban kicking of the ball. Plus there can’t be any mitigations for heading in football, you either allow or you don’t. It’s either to dangerous to head or ball, or it’s not. There can’t be an in between. (NT) -- Hg, Tuesday, December 10, 03:31:36pm (NoHost/31.94.34.14)
  • You can definitely mitigate if the problem is something caused by repetition. If the problem is too many impacts over the course of a career, reducing the likely number is a mitigation. Starting with youth makes sense. Reducing or eliminating heading in practices. That sort of thing. (NT) -- eganonoa, Tuesday, December 10, 03:51:43pm (unn-149-22-94-97.datapacket.com/149.22.94.97)
  • As below, mitigations things like restrictions based on age, how often heading is allowed in training (hasn’t something like this been introduced?). Nothing as drastic as union needs implementing, as impacts are far smaller in terms of concussions caused, but the frequency outside senior live matches can be greatly reduced, id imagine frequency x severity = damage, so reduce frequency. (NT) -- Henry1879, Tuesday, December 10, 04:41:02pm (croy-26-b2-v4wan-167127-cust1611.vm24.cable.virginm.net/82.38.22.76)
  • What they’ve done in union is not stop tackling, but stop (as far as they see possible) head contact, it isn’t the tackling that causes brain issues, it’s head contact and often concussions aren’t from tackling to the but clashes of head and accidents. Lots of work on technique too, body positions, duty of care brought in, all stuff football could take on if it wanted. (NT) -- Henry1879, Tuesday, December 10, 04:56:57pm (82-132-233-191.dab.02.net/82.132.233.191)

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• As said above - I would like to see trialled heading banned outside the penalty boxes with eg a booking and a free kick for any offence. Would considerably? reduce the number of impacts - and maybe, just maybe, might improve the game. (NT) -- f bloke, Tuesday, December 10, 03:33:22pm (host86-134-9-66.range86-134.btcentralplus.com/86.134.9.66)
  • And the answer to that will be, does it magically become safer to head a ball if you are inside some white painted lines. And the answer will be no, of course not. So like I say, you can only allow it, or disallow it. (NT) -- Hg, Tuesday, December 10, 03:37:47pm (NoHost/31.94.34.14)
    • I think there is a good chance that it will be outlawed in time but, in reality, doing it overnight will be difficult to achieve. There is a correlation between CTE and the length of a career and the position played. Eg CBS are 5 times (not 3.5) more likely to suffer since they head the ball much more. Restricting the areas where heading the ball is permitted will reduce the number of impacts and is therefore some attempt at mitigation (NT) -- f bloke, Tuesday, December 10, 03:51:25pm (host86-134-9-66.range86-134.btcentralplus.com/86.134.9.66)