Concussions and Protecting Our Players

[Derpus]

Think you are overestimating the damages plaintiffs are usually awarded in class actions. Theyll get some compensatory damages but a nominal amount relative to the actual losses theyve suffered if successful I reckon.

 

[Wilson]

I'm not estimating at all, I was just talking about their stated aims.

 

[Derpus]

Oh yeah fair enough.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Somehow I thought if the RIS craze made its way to actual footy matches it'd be somewhere a little more bogan than Manly

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[Braveheart81]

Former NRL player Kevin Proctor signed up for some brain damage in an event in Dubai.

https://x.com/MatuaKahurangi/status/1939413104993124542

 

[PhilClinton]

They've obviously still got some serious sponsorship money - $200k prize to the winner of that 'event' in Dubai.

I wonder what they paid Jordan Simi and Proctor to rock up.

 

[LeCheese]

Stake is a pretty not insignificant sponsor - and also not at all surprising that a shitty company is sponsoring a shitty competition.

 

[Strewthcobber]

So putting aside the significant foul play aspect, where's poor Lynagh at now?

By my count, that's three confirmed failed HiAs, another where he apparently passed HIA2 and 3 but didn't play the next week, and other significant head impacts like that one in Test 1 that didn't trigger an HOA. There was also at least one HIA in 2023

That's starting to get pretty scary.

I'm sure he is getting the best medical assessment, but here's the Combat Sports Board of Victoria guidelines.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

He has 2 weeks from now and he wasn’t visibly stuffed from it from a viewers perspective.

It was also a big dirty shot that got him and would have got anyone. Not an innocuous knock which is when alarm bells start.

If he picked up 2-3 in the next 12 months you can see an issue but right now I think he’s paying the price for being small and players eyes light up at the chance to wallop him unfortunately. I know it wouldn’t fix it but he could do with 4-6kg on the frame to just seem a bit sturdier. I would also tell him to stick his elbow up next time. Someone want to hit you they may as well get a scar for it.

 

[liquor box]

So putting aside the significant foul play aspect, where's poor Lynagh at now?

By my count, that's three confirmed failed HiAs, another where he apparently passed HIA2 and 3 but didn't play the next week, and other significant head impacts like that one in Test 1 that didn't trigger an HOA. There was also at least one HIA in 2023

That's starting to get pretty scary.

I'm sure he is getting the best medical assessment, but here's the Combat Sports Board of Victoria guidelines.

I think the sad reality is that the Reds need to prepare to lose him for significant amounts of time through the season, or permanently.