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But there has already been a 2 year trial using headgear with increased foam padding and the evidence was that it had no impact on concussion. McIntosh performed a randomized controlled trial of rugby players in Australia with modified headgear in the 13- to 20-year-old age groups over a...

I suspect that until the last few years that concussion incidents have been grossly underreported for various reasons. This US study notes some of them https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC155428/

And two paragrahs later it says: But as our recent research shows, wearing protective headgear may actually result in an increased risk of injury. This means that at the youth level, parents may insist on their child wearing headgear in the belief they are helping to reduce the injury risk...

No, because in any clinical trial you need a control group with which to compare. There have been numerous trials which compare the incidence of concussions between a group wearing headgear and a group not wearing head gear. The group wearing headgear had a significantly lower incidence of scalp...

But the design won't have any effect on the cause of concussion which is the force of deceleration, as indicated by Cyclo above.

Don't cherry pick a couple of sentences to prove a point. These are statements of the obvious, but every single study that I have read (and I've read quite a lot because I was awake to this 15 years ago and was a voice in the wilderness), no matter what the time span, what the age group or in...

Yes. All the studies show that headgear would in most cases prevent this type of injury (but would have no impact on whether the player suffered concussion as well)

It's the gap between what happens in the 13s and the 16s that is the problem.;)

Think you need to watch them play. Backline is electric - it's where most of the points come.

Which is why is specifically said in post #166 (on this page) that I wasn't relying on this game as the sole piece of evidence. (This is where I shake my head and smile WCR) Please see post 166 to save me retyping.:)

Indeed WCR, just when you think that all the issues have been solved, up comes another reason why an Australian domestic league won't work. Just like it took years to convince many the the ARU et al were incompetent (and there's still a few manning the barricades who won't accept that the...

As someone who spent plenty of time going to Leichhardt Oval in my youth, while I love it as a venue I wouldn't say that it was where I would put a rugby fixture. Hard to get to either driving or public transport I used to get the ferry and the 440 bus - but there aren't even bus stands at East...

Scots defeating Shore in the 14As is interesting, don't think Shore 14As have lost a game yet this year until this.

Riverview 26-7

No doubt it was a great win, but before Saturday Shore 3rds were 0/4 with a for and against of -70. The Shore boys always seem to lift against Scots.

I've never called them anything else but the Crusaders.

Probably only free because it was put together at fairly short notice. Significantly, I note that it was a Michael Cheika initiative to which RA acquiesced rather than an RA initiative.

I remember from my school days that the surest way of keeping an unwanted nick name is to complain about it.:)