What is tackle school? – BBC Sport

In March of this year, Ireland centre Garry Ringrose attended ‘tackle school’ after being shown a red card during the Six Nations match against Wales.

Ringrose was suspended for three matches but, after attending, was allowed to return for Ireland’s final match having only served two matches of his ban.

He worked closely with Ireland assistant coach Andrew Goodman in what he later described as an “interesting process”.

“I was breaking it down into different elements, what I perceived what I could do better and what ‘Goody’ thinks I could have done better,” he said.

“You go back over the incident and they designed little drills to break down the incident a bit into segments.

“That evolved into re-enacting, effectively, what happened and being acutely aware of what I can do differently in that situation,” he added.

“I was on the pitch doing it, to try to anticipate what I didn’t anticipate on the day in Cardiff to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again.”

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