Bucking Beads
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Crazy that they let Eli Katoa even play.
Eli Katoa - Head Injury Discussion
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Crazy that Katoa was let back on after the second head knock
www.foxsports.com.au
Tonga star receives urgent medical help after three brutal head knocks
‘My job isn’t to question docs’: Coach’s defence after Tonga star’s brutal exit
www.foxsports.com.au
Fernando
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It's pretty sickening. The Storm just released a statement saying he underwent surgery but no more detail than that.Crazy that Katoa was let back on after the second head knock
Tonga star receives urgent medical help after three brutal head knocks
‘My job isn’t to question docs’: Coach’s defence after Tonga star’s brutal exit
Big Del
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The one in the warm up was Cat 1 .
The Tongan management will have questions to be answered .
Stay on the ground after a head knock rarely see them play on .
- Jun 12, 2013
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Someone's head will roll for that. Disgraceful
- Apr 9, 2012
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RE warm up.
Cat 1.....thats like you're knocked out cold? The worst one? yeah......?
I note Wolf doesn't even mention the warm up incident in his interview. Tongans have to be in the shit one would think.
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It really should, that is absolutely appalling.
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Is he a plant? Keeping a FAR better fullback out of the 1 and takes out their gun second rower.
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The warm up one definitely looked Cat 1... he wasn't star fishing, but he was motionless on the ground
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and when you see the hit itself in the warmup, it's as horrifying as it gets.
Especially if it affects his playing career. Absolutely disgraceful. Whoever the doctors or trainers were that assessed each hit and continued to let him play should never work in that industry again. They were practically waiting for him to die to do something… he looked absolutely wrecked on that bench and complaining that he didn’t feel good. He’s extremely lucky that they were able to drain the fluid from his brain. It’s just absolutely shocking. If he can’t play again, there’s going to be a huge lawsuit incoming.
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It’s really hard to see how it was anything but negligent. You’d have to even look into whether those doctors were actually qualified because those of us who aren’t doctors could see he was in trouble and they still sent him back out.
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I think rules will be increased for headknocks outside of actual games.
One of the current rules is that 2x HIA's in a game is automatically ruled out... I didn't hear the commentators talk about him going for a second HIA when he first went off at 9 mins... but it was Vossy and he's off with the fairies half the time and seems to forget the rules nowadays, so there was no clarification on whether his first HIA would actually count as a second and rule him out based on him surely getting tested after the knock in warm ups.
And there was no real confirmation that he even had an HIA following the shot during the warm up.
I daresay they largely ignored the knock out in the warm up, because "we need to win the game!!", but it was a shocker. Video footage at training and during warm ups isn't the same as it is during a game, so it seems more like an honesty policy for concussions away from the game... I think they will increase the rules around that side of it.
I think the NFL require their training sessions to be recorded?? NRL might start trying to bring that in
One of the current rules is that 2x HIA's in a game is automatically ruled out... I didn't hear the commentators talk about him going for a second HIA when he first went off at 9 mins... but it was Vossy and he's off with the fairies half the time and seems to forget the rules nowadays, so there was no clarification on whether his first HIA would actually count as a second and rule him out based on him surely getting tested after the knock in warm ups.
And there was no real confirmation that he even had an HIA following the shot during the warm up.
I daresay they largely ignored the knock out in the warm up, because "we need to win the game!!", but it was a shocker. Video footage at training and during warm ups isn't the same as it is during a game, so it seems more like an honesty policy for concussions away from the game... I think they will increase the rules around that side of it.
I think the NFL require their training sessions to be recorded?? NRL might start trying to bring that in
- May 25, 2021
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Absolute disgrace from the medical professionals. Negligence everywhere you look in the Tonga camp. Who knows how long Katoa will be out for, and after urgent surgery to release the pressure on his brain who knows if we will ever be back.
