Body fat recordings and mood scores: has technology gone too far in rugby? | Paul Rees

A research project has found that professional rugby union players are being so closely monitored they are starting to think more about their own results than those of the teamThis year marks the 25th anniversary of the decision to end more than a century of amateurism at a stroke and make the game open. The change has been profound, and not just because players became employees on a payroll rather than “rewarded” in a variety of ways that either breached or circumvented the old rule. The essence of the sport is markedly different, turning from what the late Lions coach Carwyn James said shoul…