World Rugby decision about Bomb Squad after scientific investigation
The Bomb Squad tactics arose as a result of Rassie Erasmus and South Africa In 2019, which was repailed in 2023 by the Boks of Nienaber To achieve world -bicampeonate and generated controversy between the different experts and in a mouth. World Rugby announced that it has no intention of prohibiting the Banking Division 7-1insisting that There is no medical evidence that suggests that it leads to more injuries.
The recently elected president of World Rugby, Brett Robinson, agreed that division 7-1 raises questions about the spirit of the gameHowever, the governing body has indicated that there is no scientific evidence to prohibit it completely from sport.
The tactic that worked so well to South Africa to achieve two titles in the world, was replicated in recent times by Fabien Gallthié and its France, which was consecrated in the six nations, and raised the criticisms of the northern hemisphere.
The Bomb Squad received several criticisms of all kinds of oval sport figures, but more markedly from the Head Coach of Scotland, Gregor Towsend, who raised the theme at the conference ‘Shape of the Game’ and later after the victory of his team over Wales on the fifth date of the six nations. “The bank was not prepared to suddenly enter a new group of strikers”said.
In any case, after a scientific investigation that found that the Bomb Squad does not lead to the lesions, World Rugby has already established that the tactic will not be prohibited and that each coach can raise the substitute bank in the way that suits it.
The Executive Director of World Rugby, Alan Gilpin, explained: “We analyzed it from a scientific and medical perspective. Was there a clear opinion that a group of new players who enter with 20 or 30 minutes to the end would create a more harmful position, and science said it was not so? From that perspective, there was no reason to consider how we could make replacements differently. In short, there are many ways to win a rugby game.”
