Sam Peters

This is absolutely desperate news.

Progressive Rugby @ProgressiveRug

How desperately, desperately sad Teenage rugby player dies after injury during match as major club issue statement - Wales Online https://t.co/G2mTqQhyHb

Still trying to get my head around how refereeing team got this so badly wrong on the night. Subsequent three match ban still feels very light but how on earth was it only deemed yellow at the time? https://t.co/vo2fMY078K

The disconnect between rugby’s well intentioned push to reduce head contact and action regarding actual head contact is becoming a chasm. And every time something like this (headbutt) goes unpunished in the pro game, another parent thinks “why would I let my kid play that”?

Ben Robinson @peterrobinson86

Peato Mauvaka avoids red card for ‘flying headbutt’ as France beat Scotland to win Six Nations | Stuff https://t.co/U8ywMTWIwz

RT @TEnglishSport: The 20-minute red is a pox on the game, but no red of any kind for this is just unacceptable. Rugby’s gone down a dark r…

RT @markdesthompson: If rugby wants to be serious about concussion and head injuries, it has to always be a red card if a player is headbut…

RT @andymcgeady: Ok. A player chose to react, after the whistle, by launching himself at an opponent. This resulted in a flying headbutt…

Just watching the France v Scotland game. When did a flying head butt to another player’s head warrant only a yellow card?

RT @thepaulwilliams: Fascinating watching the U20s live in CAP - on the terrace. They all tackle so low as a unit. They're the first gene…

RT @hannahsbee: Rugby’s dangerous self-delusion - brilliant to have ⁦@PlantedSam⁩ writing an evidence-based riposte to Sam Warburton’s rece…

My article in today’s @NewStatesman on why @samwarburton_ was profoundly wrong to blame rugby’s ills on so-called “clickbait” media coverage of concussion. If only he knew how hard it has been to convince the media it’s a story worth covering. https://t.co/dykAEKdkqY

Great to meet some fantastic people, both riders and supporters, in Cardiff at yesterday’s @Head4Change cycle in memory of Tom Morris. Well done all @AlixPopham @melliebrampops @ProgressiveRug https://t.co/4MsPw1DCLq

Wishing everybody involved in today’s @Head4Change cycle ride in memory of the wonderful Tom Morris all very best wishes. Looking forward to welcoming you all home in Cardiff this afternoon @AlixPopham @AndrewW93733842 @GeraintThomas86 et al! Go well!!!

Desperate news about Dupont if 9 months out is right. Serious questions to be asked about the circumstances in which the injury happened. Whatever the outcome, remember a young man’s livelihood is now potentially at stake and a large part of his world has just collapsed.

RT @TightFive_Rugby: Fabien Galthie confirms that it’s a ‘serious’ knee injury for Antoine Dupont. Also says that France will be citing Ta…

RT @jameswhile: BREAKING: sources close to French camp have confirmed to me that they believe Antoine Dupont HAS suffered an ACL rupture T…

I was genuinely shocked to hear @samwarburton_’s crass and uneducated labelling of media coverage of concussion as “click bait” and “scaremongering”. Thank you to @riathalsam and @MailSport for going some way towards rebalancing the conversation.

Mail Sport @MailSport

Rugby's concussion debate is more than just 'scaremongering', writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI - here's why Sam Warburton is wrong and the sport cannot rest on its laurels despite the progress made to make the game safer https://t.co/zeJoiNpf3D

RT @Luca_Health: How AI is revolutionising rugby's concussion problem https://t.co/pnenJDAB6b via @MailSport Really cool feature in here.…