NRL head of football Graham Annesley has called on players to lower their target zone in tackles to avoid the risk of more sin bins and send-offs in the lead up to and during the finals.
Annesley said players weren’t deliberately aiming high, but they needed to lower their tackling zones or face the risk of being sent off and a lengthy ban.
“They are attempting to wrap in a front -on tackle, but their target zone is up around the shoulders," Annesley said. “We are seeing more of them, and I would make a plea again to players and coaches to address this because if they continue to aim in that marginal area around the shoulders with those types of tackles, particularly at velocity, and if that goes wrong, you have to accept that there will be consequences.