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Cricket season starts mid-September doesn't it?

You see it relatively often on the rugby field here in league heartland as a trick play. Similar one to the big forward taking the tap and pretending to charge forward only to immediately place it on the ground and step over it

Have to see the specific incident to say for sure, but seems OK. At a penalty, you have to kick the ball, and it must travel a visible distance, off the mark. A kick is defined as

Source of those participation numbers appears to be this World Rugby publication from 2020. P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf https://share.google/Tq1TFgfh9j3kfUnn8 Australia with 477,031 participants, we would slot in between Scotland and England on this graph (And genuinely only 4 pro teams...

From WR (World Rugby) website

Yep, this is exactly the issue. It can happen, but at the moment we don't know how/what/why/when etc

There was a pretty high profile study put out a couple of years ago, that had this as it's key finding, along with the risk being length of playing career - but a pretty small and selective sample The big issue is this can only be diagnosed by examining a deceased persons brain - these brains...

There isn't enough research to say yet. Edit...and to add the risk for pros isn't yet well understood either. What does seem to be true....if your head decelerates often enough and quickly enough then you are at risk of acquiring CTE, which can only be fully diagnosed after death. We don't...

Yep. Still very early days in the research that the mouthguards will allow. I reckon we are getting there with the obvious concussion But.....if the research continues to hold up, the cumulative non-concussive loads will be very interesting to keep an eye on. Unless there's massive changes in...

Interesting study comparing an estimate of mouth guard head acceleration events with diagnosed CTE from brain donors - mostly American footballers. Lots of caveats. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39183-0 No link between number of diagnosed concussions and CTE (although lots of...

2014 AFL GF was around 3.7m (including regionals) 2014 NRL GF was 4m ave (including regionals). Was the Souths GF. 2014 Super Rugby 375k on Foxtel

While we were all being distracted by Rassie and Eddie converting backs to forwards, the real innovation is Harry Wilson as the ultimate bomb squad 10

Having 35 year old James O'connor play a full 80 min test at altitude against the World Champs, so Kellaway doesn't need to slot in, is just incredible

I don't think we have that much of a development issue, there are other problems. The last time they played for the Wallabies each of Lolesio, Lynagh and Edmed were significantly injured.

It's this (ie protecting Donaldson), with a side of "keep the bench unit together" and an extra serve of "not playing Edmed unless we are truly desperate",