Crazy that he was allowed to step onto the field after the shot he took in warmups. He was basically knocked out for a second. Storm might be able to seek legal compensation from Tonga for it ? Im not even sure if he'll play footy next year or ever again?
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Imagine two semi-trailers, with a tougher padded-exterior & bull bars, colliding at 150kmh head on. What happens to the people inside not wearing seatbelts?
The brain doesn't have great seatbelts.
But CTE doesn't even need big collisions. Repetitive smaller ones can lead to it. In time. Bash something against something else for long enough and something gives or breaks...
That's why CTE is going to challenge the nature of collision sports like NRL, NFL, even soccer to an extent, eventually. Way more than concussions. When the tech to test, widespread in real-time in the living, is available.
It's the asteroid we're not seeing coming, while we're talking about concussions and more obvious incidents.
The first incident in warm up, I've seen lesser collisions resulting in a player who's been incapacitated sent for category 1s. The duty of care by those responsible was not taken
No idea how he wasn't ruled out instantly after that. Hit the showers and that's you done buddy.
Why the hell is Hopoate shoulder charging his own in the warm up?
Not sure who the doctors were or where they got their quals.
Feel sorry for the bloke. Maybe he'll sue the other dope.
It should have been taken out of his hands. Players usually say they're ok as a badge of honour.
Horrendous..if his career is ended he should consider legal action...He looked really sick on teh bench...and berr holes whoah
Holy shit. Much respect to Eli, truly one of the toughest to ever play the game.
Extremely sad for Kaota, and devastating for him and his family.
This is a huge blight on the game and incompetency all round. How the heck could he be allowed to have played? There will be ramifications here and the NRL need to be v explicit (without coaches vested interests here) in defence and how tackles are done. We do not want touch footy / oz tag and head collisions will / can occur, but the need to be looking at this and making some calls on tackles etc.
Parents, particularly mums will start to turn off and not let their kids play.
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