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4 weeks for Tom, fair result.
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What would you do to improve it?I have more of an issue with the AFLs shithouse attitude towards concussion than what Stewart did.
Not my area of expertise but in rugby the officials look for signs of concussion on the field and often stop the game to get a player showing signs of concussion off the field.What would you do to improve it?
Not my area of expertise but in rugby the officials look for signs of concussion on the field and often stop the game to get a player showing signs of concussion off the field.
Officials regularly prevent players returning to the field and can overrule the club medics if they wish. Officials need to be proactive with this stuff, not reactive.
That Port player returning to the field clearly concussed a few weeks ago was an absolute disgrace and the AFL defending it was worse.
Blokes have been getting weak suspensions for years. Still don't know how Ainsworth didn't have a case to answer a few weeks back when he ran past the ball and elbowed B McKay in the head who subsequently missed a week of footy.
I would look at extending the time on the sidelines for concussed players as well. Ben Jacobs and Dan Venables are just the start. Then you read the stories about the US concussion docs analysing what the AFL medics have been up to and shaking their heads.
They've gone too far the other way. Independent doctors are/were stepping in and refusing players to play on based on tv vision. There was uproar about it early in the season where players were being taken out of games for incidents that weren't even close to causing concussions.Not my area of expertise but in rugby the officials look for signs of concussion on the field and often stop the game to get a player showing signs of concussion off the field.
Officials regularly prevent players returning to the field and can overrule the club medics if they wish. Officials need to be proactive with this stuff, not reactive.
That Port player returning to the field clearly concussed a few weeks ago was an absolute disgrace and the AFL defending it was worse.
Blokes have been getting weak suspensions for years. Still don't know how Ainsworth didn't have a case to answer a few weeks back when he ran past the ball and elbowed B McKay in the head who subsequently missed a week of footy.
I would look at extending the time on the sidelines for concussed players as well. Ben Jacobs and Dan Venables are just the start. Then you read the stories about the US concussion docs analysing what the AFL medics have been up to and shaking their heads.
The NRL introduced a new process for head injury assessments but it is clear that Cooper Cronk is not a fan.
It comes after Kurt Mann was ordered from the field to undergo an assessment despite the issue stemming from a kick to the nether regions.
“They were looking at the wrong head. I got kicked in the balls,” Mann told ABC Sport post-game.
Absolutely agree with that. There's got to be some common sense applied.I hate they didn't stop play with trainers out there and played through the area. Absolute madness.
Would rather them be Conservative about it tbh than get one wrong.They've gone too far the other way. Independent doctors are/were stepping in and refusing players to play on based on tv vision. There was uproar about it early in the season where players were being taken out of games for incidents that weren't even close to causing concussions.
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Pretty much every GC and GWS game in their first 2 years had their opponents at $1.01Wonder if Geelong v North at Kardinia Park will start the lowest price favourites in AFL history. They should almost almost under a dollar to pay for the win
Probably but I don't think the answer is doctors watching from somewhere other than the ground, determining that a player can't play out the rest of the game.Would rather them be Conservative about it tbh than get one wrong.
66 30+ disposal games haha. Could have come up with something better than that.