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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"I honestly feel like the boys gave up after the calls kept going Melbournes way. We should investigate plenty of things, especially their six agains and head high contact. Get ready for Brisbane not going to be an easy watch."
"This is a milestone year for hopes dashed as an eels fan 40 fucking years...the concern is that this is worse then last year rd 1 and we had a near full strength team..
where to now ? promises alot delivers little thats the eels motto. Only Rd…"
where to now ? promises alot delivers little thats the eels motto. Only Rd…"
"Yet I felt Smith was worse, that's just me and granted he played more minutes but Smith defence was abysmal, an area that is considered his strength."
"That ref is a blight on the game. He shouldn't be reffing NRL games. If we have to resort to that calibre of incompetence, the game is in serious trouble "
"We were given no space, they were given space and time with the ball. We tried to slow them down and the ref got pedantic (a nice way of putting it without blue and gold goggles on). In thise circumstances we had zero chance and it showed.
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"We had the chance to pick up Vaalapu and Pahulu in the Storm shot with Lomax and dish off Matterson... they are 2 hard ass YOUNG nrl experienced forwards, bet Eels Mngt are wishing they had now! Hopgood & de Belin would be in Reggie's
B Kelly can…"
B Kelly can…"
"I thought Ryles made some really poor selections too. Moving Russell from centre was poor. He's been a good defensive link at centre and played both trials alongside Pezet there. Samrani should of been on the wing, his carries alone are worth…"
"So you're going to stop supporting because of a woeful game "
"The whole team was terrible, the attitude, the effort, everything was shocking!! We have had the whole preseason to get this right and we look a bunch of clowns!!
Brisbane will put 60 on us if we play like this next week"
Brisbane will put 60 on us if we play like this next week"
"He's eyebrow keeps getting in he's line of vision, can't see where he is passing "
"The Eels beat themselves with ill discipline. Not a great start but they have an entire season to fix it and hoepfully they get it sorted quickly."
"6 agains are we seriously thinking that was the difference here.
We committed the cardinal sin or making far to many errors and not completing sets the rest is sermantics.If we took the footage of us getting robbed with by 6 agains we get laughed…"
We committed the cardinal sin or making far to many errors and not completing sets the rest is sermantics.If we took the footage of us getting robbed with by 6 agains we get laughed…"
"Wasn't aimed at you my bro, just everyone in general in my life lol. I couldn't believe what I was watching, no effort or heart, I know a lot of shit went against us but a solid group looks past that and keeps going, we put our heads down. Our pack…"
"Hopgood isn't too old, he is too shit at footy. Barnett is 10x the player Hopgood is. Cut bait now, T and Sammy are ready. Moretti, Doorey, and Guymer are first graders.
Hopgood trade for Barnett. Lomax trade for Tago. Hopgood JDB and Kelly cannot…"
Hopgood trade for Barnett. Lomax trade for Tago. Hopgood JDB and Kelly cannot…"
"Should have posted this in the other post game takeway blog"
"Not to mention the Da Silva knock on that defiently wasnt a knock one
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My personal takeaways
Tayln d-Seriously what are we playin this cunt for.Every time he comes on he does the dumbest shit I've ever fucken seen seriously man.Fcken pissed me of.penis and Kelly-Two of the most attroucious defensive centres I've ever seen in my 15 plus…
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Now that was a great game.
What a pleasure of a game tonight, we came out and really stepped up. The comradiere and composure shown by our players was tremendous, they stood up and showed enormous intensity at times. The team work was classy at worst and exceptional at best.…
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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.