https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1608091715833/footy-concussions
Very interesting and tragic. Featuring parras Ray Price and Brett Horsnell.
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"Good point, we are not condoning what he did. Just that in 2013 many here kept saying we have him coming and he hasn't arrived.........yet"
"He's coming, he will have to Zoom into court because he's literally mid-flight on the way to Australia.
But for real, these charges were put to him years ago, I think it's surfaced again because it's finally going through court. And if he's found…"
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"So he's not coming?"
"Not such a bad thing, he has trimmed down significantly after realising he has to work for a living if he can't play footy."
"The long running Hock joke on this site has to officially end, he has been charged with rape and repeated assaults on a woman in the UK."
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"No way would they even try. Ikin would sack most of them if he was signed. Only after yes men to protect their jobs"
"You are overthinking it. BlahBlahBlah listing speculative shit we know nothing about helps no-one...it's just busywork.
Sometimes results require heads to roll. We are here. Simple as that...so now it becomes "Who's Heads"???
Can't do Ryles, that…"
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Can't do Ryles, that…"
"Not to be a vulture but Im going to put it out there....with the illness Belamy has been diagnosed ....is there a posibility there are to be major changes at Melbourne and Frank Ponissi might be looking for a change ?"
"ok, but you have to feed the chooks in the morning!"
"He should keep pushing. They will release him."
"Great to hear, MeelK. Never stops does it. All good here too thankyou legend. "
"I missed him the moment the knights game finished last year."
"Oh well dreams were free."
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Ray Price sounded so fried when he was speaking. My young bloke wants to play league next year, jury is still out for me if I let him.
Shit poppy, that was a bit harsh. Feel free to have a crack at me, but taking a dig at the intelligence of my son is a bit low.
My earliest memory of the eels is my old man making me watch the 86 GF. When pricey and crow were chaired off, my old man was crying. So, either dad love them, or he had a horrible foreboding of the priemership drought to come :)
Concussions were poorly understood in Ray's day. Given the era and position he played in, he likely had a number of concussions, especially when you take into the fact players like Matty Johns said he had about 10 or so through his career.
But concussions aren't the biggest issue here. The biggest issue is repeated sub-concussive impacts. Those hits that rattle you but don't give you a complete concussion. It's like a boxer taking small jabs throughout a fight. The more of those they take the higher chance of a KO. What Dr. Omalu found was that those repeated minor head traumas had more of an impact on later quality of life than the larger, more infrequent hits.
I do know that the NRL is actually seen as one of the better concussion managers in professional sport. Their HIA system and protocol is seen as one of the most stringent and most closely abides by the recommendations from medical professionals. It's also why I don't think we'll see a class action against the NRL. Unlike the NFL, as far as we know, the NRL has tried to address the long term impacts of concussions as soon as they became aware of them.
What would you change poplet?
Maggie, Both Ray and Brett Kenny need a Swahili interpreter on hand at all times.