NRL’s study shows ban won’t work

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ON level one of the NRL's headquarters at Moore Park, a small team of four analysts have spent six weeks bunkered down in front of monitors, working around the clock to scrutinise every tackle that has occurred since round one.

Following the devastating spinal injury to Newcastle's Alex McKinnon — and amid pressure to ban the lifting tackle, three-man tackles or both — the task was met with a simple directive: show us the research that proves why the NRL should change the fabric of rugby league forever.

News Limited can reveal the data behind one of the biggest issues in the game. In conjunction with the NRL's official statistics partner, Prozone, the NRL's own operations team assessed almost 12,000 tackles from rounds one to five.

Todd Greenberg says a blanket lifting tackle ban isn't the answer. Source: News Limited

From the study, the statistics indicated:

■In rounds one to five, there were 11,977 tackles and, of these, 3606 involved more than two tacklers;

■The number of three-man lifting tackles have decreased by 46 per cent from round one (63) to round five (34);

■One-on-one tackles represent the greatest percentage (20 per cent) of potentially dangerous tackles;

■Two-man tackles are the most common, representing half of all tackles and responsible for the most lifting tackles.

■Six per cent of three-man tackles involve lifting

Jack de Belin received a one-match suspension for this tackle on Sam Burgess. Source: News Corp Australia

The research is a code-breaker for the NRL, who has never before dedicated this level of critique and in-depth research into how the game is played.

The NRL now have the ability to enforce rule changes and tackle necessary issues with the supportive data in front of them.

The League has finally caught up to what every NRL club has had at their fingertips for almost a decade where individual tackles were broken up into one, two and three man tackles.

For the purpose of the study, a tackle by definition is when a defender, or number of defenders tackle an opposing player.

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A tackle was also numbered after an offload occurred or when a penalty was awarded during a tackle.

Each tackle was then qualified as "controlled" or "potentially dangerous".

After consultation with the NRL's match review committee, a lifting tackle was classified when a player was positioned past the horizontal and therefore was considered as dangerous.

Over the past month, NRL head of football Todd Greenberg has repeatedly stated publicly that any rule changes or bans would not be meted out until the game had the necessary information and data in front of them.

Cronulla's Ben Pomeroy is on the receiving end of this one against The Raiders. Source: News Limited

With the numbers now in front of him, Greenberg said the NRL would continue to make decisions based on research and facts.

"What the analysis shows is that there is no simple answer. This is a contact sport with multiple moving parts and applications,'' Greenberg said.

"Making blanket decisions that are really prescriptive doesn't work.

"Because it doesn't answer your fundamental problem, you would just be moving a problem from one area to another. We're not going to make decisions in relation to the rules until we have done the work required.

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"We will then consult with our clubs and players to ensure we have all the facts in front of us.

"If we had made a decision immediately then people would've criticised us for being reactionary and we would've created another problem elsewhere.

"The only reason why you would ban the three-man tackle or lifting tackles is if it would significantly change the way injuries are applied and it is obvious from the analysis that is not the case.

"We will continue make reasoned and measured decisions based on facts and data and we will make them with the game's best interests at heart."

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