Brian O'Driscoll on rugby's physicality and his Champions Cup preview

[@alexsmith3993]

Watched whole vid. Really enjoy BODs POV and points raised by everyone are great

[@sureseam]

Honestly the way forward is to drop (say) 3 players from each side. Let it be more like sevens. Let the players be less sumo and more runners. The role of battering your way through would be so much less.

[@toddelliott3239]

The American NFL should be an example of what two problems exist: Speciality of positions in congruency to size (weight) is going to create more injuries by the disparity of size. Impact by or from over-performing bodies, are going to damage the head is the dichotomy the NFL and Rugby has as well. All sports want the optimal conditioned player, but the head / neck have a more difficult time to keep up with those harder contacts. Concussions will rise in Rugby if we don't reconsider how we are playing, i.e. the laws. That is the problem with the NFL, they don't look at tackling form: they allow in American football, any type of hitting (rules), and no wrap tackles. In season Rugby should limit contact. As a player, I personally had more injuries myself on a Tuesday and questionable or not playing on Saturday. As a coach, especially in America, we have to have tackle contact training sessions during the season at 50-75%, just to make sure new players get the form. However, we don't do this very often during the season. Rucking is done with pads. Learn the mistakes by the NFL, don't get bigger! Learn from the NFL, limit contact during the season. Rugby should be prepared for more head-knocks if they don't watch their size: bigger is not necessarily better, which goes against the American psyche.

[@Claggyt]

heh heh...stumbled across this in June 2018 and it's hilarious how little faith the lads had with Leinster at the time. 7 months later and Leinster are European Champions, winning every game. And yet when you listen to the same lads talking now they only talk about how great the Leinster set-up is and how this could be a dynasty. Blaggers all.

[@raymcalister5113]

From what of seen in the last yeah also I'm betting on Ireland too win World Cup in Japan . Ps and yes I'm a kiwi lol

[@barryryan14]

Hard to do but O'Driscoll looks condescending while listening to Donnacha