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  Poupou Escobar March 21, 2017 at 4:00am

  I don't think having a concussed player on the field is much of an advantage.
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  brad March 21, 2017 at 4:07am

  mate, with all due respect if you can't see the advantage of not having to take your half back or fullback off for 10 minutes and reshuffling your team for the period then I don't know how to explain it to you.
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    Poupou Escobar > brad March 21, 2017 at 5:06am

    Well, if by advantage you mean not having to put up with the massive disadvantage of removing key players and shuffling your team, then I guess it's an advantage. But why should the other team get an advantage just because your player got concussed? Especially if they caused it.

    The HIA rule is to protect players' health, not to disadvantage his team. If the player is able to keep playing then that's his business. If he was really concussed he would be a liability.
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  Shawn peters March 21, 2017 at 4:47am

  Massive advantage
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  brad March 21, 2017 at 5:19am

  The rules set out by the governing body is simple a player MUST come from the field for an assessment. It does not matter if you or I believe this is an over action by the NRL, the rules are the rules. The Titans deliberately with intent decided not to follow the rules inforced on every club and gained an advantage from it.
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    Poupou Escobar > brad March 21, 2017 at 5:49am

    They didn't gain an advantage, they decided against taking the disadvantage of having to take a player off the field. The player didn't do anything to deserve going off. If one of our key players got a head knock and knew he was ok to play on I would hope we'd cop the fine as well instead of losing him for what could be a pivotal moment of the game.
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  brad March 21, 2017 at 5:34am

  Remember the NRL own the Titans, so really what was their punishment? Why would Niel Henry be scared to put players welfare before results when the punishment is his employer fines itself?
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  brad March 21, 2017 at 5:56am

  That's the point mate, the Titans made a decision not to follow the rules because it didn't suit them. The NRL does not believe they followed the rules hence the fine. The Titans are free to make that decision, they are however not free of the consequences of that decision. I simply believe the consequence should be a loss of competition points not monetary fines.
  Every time a player is forced to leave the field for a HIA it has impact on that team. Unde your logic we should leave it to the players and trainers to make that decision and when they get it wrong pay the fine. I think you are not grasping what the NRL are trying to achieve with the concussion tests.
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    Poupou Escobar > brad March 21, 2017 at 6:31am

    The NRL are just trying to cover their arses. If players didn't want to spend the rest of their lives with health issues they wouldn't be playing professional rugby league.
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  Michael Ericson March 21, 2017 at 6:45am

  I agree to an extent Brad. The Titans didn't really gain an advantage over us but they cheated the rules whatever you may think of them. The only thing that is going to stop teams continuing to do it is to threaten to strip them of points. A fine won't do it especially with a club like the Titans which is currently run by the NRL anyway.