Less should be more in brave new rugby world

Rugby without tackling is like a French market without cheese, writes Brendan O’Brien

Burnout. It’s a word that has been all but requisitioned by the GAA. Or its critics anyway. But it isn’t an issue restricted to those playing our native games. Sport’s lucrative but compromising marriage with business hasn’t just led to an expansion in the amount of money involved, it has resulted in an explosion of events at the top level.

There isn’t a sport that is oblivious to the potentially ruinous consequences.