“For me, rising up as a child and now taking part in the sport, I feel it’s one of the crucial iconic components of the sport. Not simply each week spherical recreation, however you consider Origin as effectively,” he mentioned on Sky Sport’s Radio.
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“I don’t assume there’s a lot distinction between these [kick-off collisions] and an outdoor again returning a kick return right into a straight line … I feel it’s simply a part of our recreation, and it’s a component the place the likes of somebody like Tom Burgess, that’s certainly one of his massive strengths for us is we put him on a kick-off carry, there’s a very good probability we begin that set on the entrance foot.”
For Robinson, it’s about balancing participant security and the fact of contact sport.
“We’re a contact sport, so we’re not going to go away from being a contact sport,” he mentioned. “You then’ve acquired the opposite aspect of it. It’s a bit like boxing, how do you make boxing safer? The way in which to make boxing safer is to make higher guidelines inside the ring about how does somebody get protected once they’re within the ring if one thing does occur, after which what occurs exterior of the ring, and I feel we’re getting quite a bit higher at these.
“So, how can we maintain the essence of our sport, and the distinctiveness of it, and shield our gamers? I feel we’ve acquired to maintain heading [down] that path, however not make some game-changing choices that different sports activities have made, that make it unrecognisable to the contact sports activities.”
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