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‘Survival of game depends on it’: NRL unmoved by backlash to welfare edict – Sydney Morning Herald
There has been a backlash to the NRL’s latest interpretation of the rules, but another mooted change – the five-minute sin bin – isn’t currently on the table.
We will do everything in our power to stop any hit from the shoulder up. Its going to be enforced, will continue to be enforced and eventually the players will get it. It will be just like they did when we stopped punching, spear tackles and the shoulder charge.
Some pundits have suggested the five-minute sin bin should return for incidents in which minimal head or neck contact is made. However, Vlandys said that is not on the agenda.
Coaches can manipulate that because in a sense they can get someone…
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