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BANNING the dangerous lifting tackle remains on the NRL's agenda, but any change is unlikely to occur this season.
A series of shocking tackles where players have been up-ended have been magnified over the first five rounds following the career-ending injury to Newcastle forward Alex McKinnon.
The spinal damage caused to McKinnon has triggered passionate debate across the game on why the NRL should stamp lifting tackles out of the game forever.
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There is also uncertainty and confusion from players, coaches and fans on what is illegal and what isn't after the Gold Coast's Beau Falloon escaped any reprimand despite lifting Melbourne's Will Chambers into a precarious position last Sunday.
The Melbourne Storm have demanded answers from the NRL about the tackle.
As NRL head of football Todd Greenberg stood by the match review committee's decision not to charge Fallon yesterday, he also added he game would not shy away from banning lifting tackles, provided there was reason.
"We won't make any rash decisions without facts and data in front of us,'' Greenberg said.
"It's very important people understand that we'll assess the risks in the game, we will assess information but we will simply won't make decisions to fundamentally change rules without all that information available to us.
Will Chambers of the Storm is tackled by Nate Myles and Beau Falloon of the Titans. Source: Getty Images
"We will work on that diligently like we have done on a range of other issues.
"It took us six months to pressure test a range of scenarios for the rule changes we've made this year and we will apply the equal amount of critique on that before we make statements.
"I don't think anybody can tell you categorically if there's more or less lifting tackles from last year to this year.
"And the reason no one can tell us is because we haven't analysed the data yet. We're doing that as we speak.
"We're not going to take innuendo or comments from players on the run.
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"We will only react with the facts in front of us. And we do that, we've actually shown you across time that we will make changes where changes need to be made.''
Greenberg added that he had no issue with the Storm's formal complaint.
"Every club is entitled to ask questions, so we've got no problem with that,'' Greenberg said.
"Let's face it the game has been around for 100 years and there are always questions asked for various issues in the game.
"The match review panel and charges and grading's will continue to be debated.
"The important part people need to understand is the match review committee are independent, they're made up of very experienced former players who are there to discharge duties according to the rules.''
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