PhilClinton
Geoff Shaw (53)
The Will Pucovski situation is really interesting and I feel for the bloke. I sometimes wonder if he’s got some kind of X-Men ability where his head is like a magnet for leather balls.
9s didn’t work for 2 reasons.Just announced, all NRL teams are required to film all contact training sessions from this year and submit them to the NRL. All footage will be reviewed with a potential change to the amount of contact drills permitted per week to be limited from 2025.
This is getting very intense.
I mentioned on these forums years ago, one of my colleagues is on the FOGS board (former origin greats) and he told me back in 2021 that the NRL was already succession planning for potentially game altering contact laws to come into effect within 10 years. He specifically called out rugby sevens as the sport the NRL were predicting to thrive during that period due to decreased contact opportunities with less players on the field. They were frustrated that the whole 9s thing hadn’t really taken off.
Looks like the NRL are really progressing with their concussion protocols, watch this space.
"He would see people and they would talk about concussion, but they would never talk about CTE. Managing concussion is a massively different proposition to managing a degenerative disease and I can't say for certain, but I don't think Bill had this information."
Hilarious tackle technique, hilarious-er listening to the commentators' confusion at the decision. The NRL really are a long way behind most other codes when it comes to concussion prevention (not just management) - kind of bizarre considering many (the majority?) of the high-profile Australian CTE cases are rugby league players.Well the NRL might be looking into our backyard for once on how to handle dangerous head contact. Last night for the first time (that I am aware of) a player was penalised for careless contact in a tackle which resulted in head on head contact.
Was interesting listening to the commentators (on Fox at least) who were totally confused by the decision to penalise the player. As a rugby fan, I thought it would definitely have been a yellow or red card situation in our game, very clear lack of proper tackling technique from the defender which resulted in direct head on head contact and the attacking player leaving the game with a huge cut around his eye and potential damage to eye socket or cheekbone (although passed his HIA).
I feel nothing will happen from it. They may put these on report but nobody will be suspended like Rugby would give him a few weeks. $1500 fine and play next week.