England rugby World Cup winner says sport ‘flogging players until they fall apart’GMB/ITV
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00:00For rugby in your view ever to be a safe sport to play as an elite level
00:05It's not going to be a safe sport, you know
00:07But when it comes to the CTE aspects and the repetitive head injuries, it's coming from the training as well, right?
00:14Yeah, and you you know, they turn around and say, you know
00:17It's our number one priority looking after the players. They're just about putting another world's tournament, you know for clubs
00:24So the players gonna be playing all year round they're training all year round and that's where it happens in training
00:30Yeah, you got us, you know American football is what three four months and then other time that they're resting, you know
00:36And that's not happening in rugby and that's the problem. You know, they're just literally flogging the players till they they literally fall apart