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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"your very right with this attitude Adam"
"Is every club depending on who you ask."
"So you're willing to give Melbourne a gold chip just so we can take a bronze chip. That's not smart, that is dumber than dog shit"
"You've also got to remember Lomax might be more than willing to pay us say $500k in damages (I'm not sure what would be agreed to by the parties or court enforced) in order to get a 3 year $700k contract with the storm."
"We don't need to pick any sort of fight in this, we don't need to be the aggressor. It is also important that we don't portray ourselves as that.
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"But we will demand lube...Parra Stronk"
"Only reason nrl look after Melbourne is to fight the afl in that state. A losing battle everytime lol. "
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"The NRL will tell Parra to bend over and they will gleefully drop trousers and touch their toes."
"When Melbourne is doing well, rugby league is doing well. Or was that Souths?"
"and we wouldn't even bleat about it. This is part of why I think we have to show some fight now. There are more fights to come and we need to learn how to do it or we just won't ever do it. Heavyweight clubs wouldn't take this shit, so let's pretend…"
"The media is where i would run this hardest. Straight and sideways
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"Im pretty confident shit like that would leak."
"Melbourne get away with everything. They would have even got away with the salary cap cheating if it weren't for that anonymous whistleblower."
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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.