Not ignorant at all - World Rugby has not clearly defined it. We advocate for - maximum of 30 matches per season or equivalent minutes for exactly that reason.

Going forward we would welcome the opportunity to engage constructively with World Rugby on the very serious issue of player welfare and hope that they would be open to listening to the external and fully independent expertise which is available to them.

Secondly, it should not have needed a project group to come up with this. In fact it did not - Bill Ribbans of Progressive Rugby made these exact recommendations to World Rugby in 2021, meaning that 4 years ago the game could have been made much safer.

For them to be of value as a diagnostic tool. Which they most definitely aren’t - and weren’t designed for.
This goes for everybody.

We’d definitely agree with playing minutes with the caveat that the players still require a minimum 4/5 consecutive weeks rest during the off-season.

There needs to be a mandatory limit on the number of minutes played per season and it needs to be rigorously enforced.

Playing him today shows just how far we have to go in terms of education and awareness around brain injuries.