I think you'll see greater across the board technique change with much more effort at lower grades to teach and reward good tackle technique than punishing establishing guys.
Reward legs tackle with a longer allowances to hold on in NRL to encourage it.
Stop showing highlights which were penalties in the game for a high shot, or look like they should have been.
Be interesting to see how NFL goes with their reduced kick-off rule. Their kick-offs were always different to ours with upfield blockers but the issue was the same - high impact collisions from big run ups.
I don't know that I ever really had good tackle technique enforced in me as a kid, and I had none as an adult (although managed to not give up too many high shots and as the tackler only an unexpectedly dipped head really got my eyes rolling around).
Mate is reluctantly starting to coach his sons union team because everyone else was even more reluctant. He said he's got no idea what he's doing doesn't know how to teach the kids how to legally tackle in union as it has changed so much since he played. He's going to try and learn how. When the coach is the least reluctant dad and feels like they have to go out of their way to learn how to teach tackling what hope do the kids have of developing good technique?
