Fewer players. That's the suggestion one English rugby writer has made in an effort to fix rugby's ongoing issues with head knocks.
Stade Francais academy player Nicolas Chauvin died earlier this month after breaking his neck in a tackle, which has seen French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte lead calls for changes to the game.
Chauvin, aged 19, was the third young player in France to die after a rugby game in the past five months.
Laporte wants the legal tackle height lowered to the waist, the banning of head-on-head contact and also has called for the drastic change of banning tackles by more than one player.
"Rugby must become a game of movement where avoidance overrides the impact. For this, it is important to change attitudes and change the rules, especially on tackling," the former France coach said.