The other telling factor in player performance is chronic injuries.
And some of these flare up and never settle.
Thus we don’t see Michael Morgan featuring anymore. Big shame and he’s on big money.
And he’s one of many out there.
As a recruiter ( the intern!) I’d want to see all the medical records of prospective players and get a doc to examine them.
That would include brain scans if available.
That young kid dying was ordinary, if it was game or training related, a massive wake up call. No stone left unturned to resolve it, no one should die or be paralysed etc playing rugby league. Its horrific.
We need to be hyper vigilant about the internal damage. I’m not talking about the odd brawl where no one gets seriously hurt. They rarely result in anything more than bruised egos and allegations of cowardice from fans.
Let’s face it, it’s good optics to see a Nathan Brown type get a light-on blow to the head. Much better than bj and his imbecilic coat hanger. Mind you, if he’d really meant to hurt Edwards -Edwards wouldn’t have got up. Bj is very big, strong and powerful.
That was almost the mug act for the season for mine. Total shutting down of brain cells!
As the panel know, Edwards refused to help In the prosecution of BJ. Old school ethics, the young bloke is a f**king legend. Is entitled to the odd smugging out, I won’t hear a bad word said of him.
Snitches suck. It’s un-Australian. Like those cretins who film players being dumb and wreck their careers.
They should be made to do a walk of shame at the gf.