‘We need to keep looking at how we make it safer’: Eddie Jones says more needs to be done to look after rugby’s stars as the England coach taps into the NBA and NFL for alternative training methods
- Rugby is under pressure to find solutions to its crisis around head injuries
- The sport is facing a legal class action from almost 200 players with dementia
- Eddie Jones has been sharing information with coaches from NFL team
England coach Eddie Jones has adopted ‘mime training’ from American sport in an attempt to improve player safety.
Rugby is under pressure to find solutions to its crisis around head injuries, with the sport facing a legal class action from almost 200 players with dementia.
Now England captain, Courtney Lawes, has been forced to withdraw from this week’s training camp in Jersey because of concussion.
Eddie Jones says that more need more needs to be done to protect players in rugby
Dylan Hartley, the former England skipper, told The Mail on Sunday last week that administrators must find answers quickly, suggesting reducing the amounts of contact training.
Jones has been sharing information with coaches from American football team the Green Bay Packers. There has already been a heavy shift towards alternative training methods among sides in the National Football League and in basketball’s NBA.
‘We have been looking at a little bit of the stuff in America,’ Jones said. ‘I was talking to NFL and NBA where the amount of training time is being cut. One of the things they do in the NBA is mime training, where they are not allowed to talk. We are going to have a go at doing that. It is the eye contact, being able to understand each other’s body language.
‘Every sport is being modified in the physical load…
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