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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Aaron Bower

‘We are failing our players’: Super League under fire for fixture crush

A rugby league player lying on the pitch
There are more than 80 players injured in the 12 Super League squads. Clubs face a hectic period of five games in three weeks. Photograph: Tim Clayton/Corbis/Getty Images

Rugby league’s players’ union says the sport risks failing to properly protect the welfare of participants with Super League clubs facing three games in as little as nine days over the coming week and a half.

Garreth Carvell, the former Great Britain prop who leads the Rugby League Players Association, says the union will do all it can to remove busy fixture periods from the calendar as soon as possible and better protect those taking the field.

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