Fuck - I just hope he looks after himself or is under private specialist medical people.
Someone at the Tahs or the Tahs quacks cleared him to play last weekend.
It APPEARS he should not have played at all if reports are correct.
The blokes health and long term effects should be the concern of EVERYBODY
He was cleared to play under the RTTP (return to play protocol) weeks ago.
He has been withdrawn in each of the following weeks because he has reported suffering symptoms at some point during the week following strenuous exercise. This has included a couple of times where he made it almost the entire way through the week before having some symptoms and then declaring those and being withdrawn.
Last week he suffered no symptoms and thus was picked to play.
Following the game he has reported some symptoms so is now in doubt again.
I don't know what more can be done in terms of his welfare short of retiring after having lingering symptoms for a few weeks after a concussion.
Clearly you can't exactly replicate game conditions in terms of stress and fatigue etc. in training although you can go close. What more can be done apart from pushing as hard as possible at training and seeing if there are any symptoms following that?
Of course Foley's long term welfare are in everyone's interests particularly his own, but it does seem that both he and the Waratahs have exercised the utmost caution possible in his return to rugby and are doing so again now following the return of symptoms after the game.
They can only act on the information available as all the objective testing (including having a scan on his return from South Africa) have been well and truly passed. The information they have now is all subjective and relies on Foley saying how he feels but there is no indication he hasn't been truthful with that.
