Zander Fagerson got here off early in Scotland’s win towards EnglandScotland head coach Gregor Townsend says “extra work” is required to make sensible mouthguards “appropriate” after an alert prompted the short-term withdrawal of prop Zander Ferguson in Saturday’s Six Nations win over England.Fagerson went off for a head damage evaluation (HIA) after six minutes at Murrayfield, with Elliot Millar-Mills taking his place, earlier than being given the all clear to proceed.”Sure it was [an alert] and I noticed the deal with once more – only a regular deal with,” Townsend mentioned.”I believe we’ve got to essentially watch what we’re doing right here. Belief in know-how that is not been confirmed.”Sensible mouthguards are getting used within the males’s Six Nations for the primary time this 12 months.They document the acceleration power (G-force) and path of power concerned in contacts, generally known as “head acceleration occasions”, and may present real-time information to a health care provider or official on the sidelines.Fagerson is the second Scotland participant impacted by the brand new know-how after hooker George Hooker went off the sector for an HIA within the defeat by France.Townsend added: “What we have been doing over the previous few years is ensuring that any signs which can be seen, various individuals can flag up whether or not somebody goes off for an HIA.”Zander was taken off for 10 minutes after what regarded like a standard deal with however there was a spike alert from the mouthguard.Get Scotland rugby notificationsIn the BBC Sport app now you can set notifications for Scottish rugby, making certain you by no means miss any of the information, views and dialog across the Scotland nationwide groups, plus Glasgow and Edinburgh. The notifications are simple so as to add – head to the My Notifications part of the menu after which select Scottish rugby information.”I do know in Tremendous Rugby there have been a few alerts and gamers have been saying, ‘there’s nothing flawed right here, I’ve simply made a deal with’, so we have to look at that since you do not need to be taking our greatest gamers off the sector for 10 minutes if there aren’t any points round concussion.”We need to defend our gamers, that is for sure, however there is a bit extra work to do earlier than this know-how is appropriate.”Townsend was requested if he believed the know-how had been rushed in.”It is a new factor within the Six Nations and it is not been used at membership degree previous to the Six Nations,” he responded. “I would hope they’d be taught from this incident and clearly George Turner went off for 10 minutes within the earlier sport.”[We need] to ensure it is as near correct as potential. That is what we would like.”We’ve got plenty of eyes watching and gamers at the moment are superb at saying, ‘I’ve had a head damage right here, I’ve to go off’.”I believe we simply have to do a bit extra work right here earlier than we transfer on.”
