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Originally Posted by sherer
Does anyone remember playing Touch Rugby at school. It's the version where so you don't get injured or hurt you play the girls version and just have to touch someone for a tackle. Sometimes I feel like that is what they are doing with football now.
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Tackles are fine, it's just you have to make more contract with the ball. There is less tolerance of taking more of the man than the ball or making any tackle which is dangerous. This is fine anyway. Proper tackling is a skill and for too long people have accepted mistimed and poor tackles under the guise of it being a 'men's game'.
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Originally Posted by sherer
There are some younger people who have only ever seen the game played like it is today which is a very sad state of affairs and is starting to make me lose my love of the game
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It's not a sad state of affairs though. Hopefully it will raise a generation of footballers who admire the technical qualities of the game, the skill, which is of far more abundance than it used to be.