Kimlo
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Nobel prize for discovering the cure for CTE?Maybe Gallen's systematic abuse of PED's has given him yet another unfair advantage.......?
Nobel prize for discovering the cure for CTE?Maybe Gallen's systematic abuse of PED's has given him yet another unfair advantage.......?
Well, except for Ryan Matterson…This is a complete wakeup call to the NRL. Players like Wade Graham have been very vocal about these types of issues affecting players in their retirement. I think there needs to be a loading applied to all of the grade 1 careless high tackles (JWH) so that they begin missing games eventually. Nobody gives a **** about a fine.
Wade Graham knew when he signed up to be a footy player that there are risks involved in contact sport.This is a complete wakeup call to the NRL. Players like Wade Graham have been very vocal about these types of issues affecting players in their retirement. I think there needs to be a loading applied to all of the grade 1 careless high tackles (JWH) so that they begin missing games eventually. Nobody gives a **** about a fine.
Maybe Gallen's systematic abuse of PED's has given him yet another unfair advantage.......?
Precisely however you can't throw a worker into a pit of hazards and not do something to protect them. Every other workplace has controls to minimise risk and the NRL should be no different. Do we stop providing police with body armor and training etc because they "knew what they signed up for was dangerous". What about roofers? Just do away with the harness and elevated work platforms and let them deal with the risks involved because it's their choice.Wade Graham knew when he signed up to be a footy player that there are risks involved in contact sport.
I cant feel sorry for him.
Its like playing with matches and getting burned, then wanting compensation from the company that made your matches.
Precisely however you can't throw a worker into a pit of hazards and not do something to protect them. Every other workplace has controls to minimise risk and the NRL should be no different. Do we stop providing police with body armor and training etc because they "knew what they signed up for was dangerous". What about roofers? Just do away with the harness and elevated work platforms and let them deal with the risks involved because it's their choice.
Can't feel sorry for a bloke with a brain injury....wth?
And mate, i cant feel sorry for someone who made a far better than average living at the cost of his own health, when he knew the possibility of injury before signing up to play.Can't feel sorry for a bloke with a brain injury....wth?
Absolutely it's to do with the NRL avoiding litigation. It has everything to do with this, regulators and future litigation. The law is heavily in the players favor with here types of claims which is why the NRL appear to be so analYea, but there is only so much protection you can provide in a contact sport other than being well informed.
I am sure if you wanted to pay Roofers 800 grand a year to work without harnesses, you would get a whole load of blokes who would be up for it, regardless of the risks because they love roofing and the pay is good.
Of course it sucks some dudes end up with brain injuries, but they got those injuries knowing full well the risks involved and while its sad to see, it is an outcome than they knew was a possibility when signing that fat paycheck.
I reckon a big part of the recent few seasons crackdown on player head contact is not really to do with protecting the players and more to do with the NRL avoiding litigation.
These are bad comparisons. The fact is he could have earned a decent living and had some sort of controls in place to protect him from brain injury. Considering illness such as CTE are likely caused by recurrent head injuries during concussion, the current NRL concussion protocols might have protected someone like Wally.And mate, i cant feel sorry for someone who made a far better than average living at the cost of his own health, when he knew the possibility of injury before signing up to play.
People know fireworks are dangerous, i don't feel sorry for the guy who blows his fingers off.
Were do the fines even go?This is a complete wakeup call to the NRL. Players like Wade Graham have been very vocal about these types of issues affecting players in their retirement. I think there needs to be a loading applied to all of the grade 1 careless high tackles (JWH) so that they begin missing games eventually. Nobody gives a **** about a fine.
I thought Carl Webb is battling motor neurone disease....not CTE?