Fears over mauling laws after player dies of broken neck

Fears over mauling laws after player dies of broken neck
Bret Harris | June 26, 2008

THE death of an Argentine winger last Saturday has highlighted the danger of collapsing the maul, a practice which will be legalised under the experimental law variations to be trialled worldwide from August 1.

Juan Cruz Migliore died from injuries, including a broken neck, suffered when a maul collapsed on him while playing in a club game in Buenos Aires.

The death brings into question the ELVs, which will allow the collapsing of the maul in the global trial, although it was not permitted in the Super 14 series.

The new law is designed to free up the ball, but Migliore's death serves as a warning. Wallabies re-starts coach Michael Foley said he hoped the new law did not compromise player safety.

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This making him the second player to die as a result of a neck injury in the past 2 weeks?

wow
yeah
about two players in 2 weeks
thats bad!

From differing circumstances though.....

Sad that it may be used for political reasons however to try to kill the ELV's....

I was never really happy with allowing collapsing the maul though...

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Originally Posted by BLR

Sad that it may be used for political reasons however to try to kill the ELV's....

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Not that one. Deserves a very swift death. I don't know what they were thinking there anyway.

The only thing with the maul is that half the referees wouldn't seem to know an obstruction if it bit them on the arse.

Not being a forward I know I'm pretty clueless about the intricacies of a maul, but aren't there some pretty strict controls on the way the maul is collapsed....is that in order for it to be done safely?

it will make a huge difference when players are expecting the maul to go down, whenever a maul is collapsed nobody is expecting it because it is illegal. With the ELVs the players will be trained and every time there is a maul they will be expecting it to go down soon and they should be ready.

any collapsed maul can be dangerous though

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Originally Posted by shasta

Not that one. Deserves a very swift death. I don't know what they were thinking there anyway.

The only thing with the maul is that half the referees wouldn't seem to know an obstruction if it bit them on the arse.

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I don't like the rule either but I can just seeing this being used as a weapon by the NH to try to kill the whole lot of them, and using such a tragic accident to further your cause is wrong on so many levels.

any contact sport could be considered dangerous. It will be interesting to see the fallout from this regarding the ELV's.

It is sad that a player lost their life though
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