This article argues that the NRL's continued use of long kick-offs, despite their known risks of brain damage, is a recipe for legal disaster. The author highlights recent cases of head injuries caused by long kick-offs and compares the NRL's inaction to the NFL's proactive rule changes aimed at reducing concussions.
Your Honour, you will recall I said this cannot have come as a surprise to either the NRL or anyone with common sense. Tackling big men from a 10-metre run-up is hard enough – but tackling men the size of JWH at full tilt? How the hell could you, to demonstrate that the league administrators were openly warned that they were grossly breaching their duty of care to their employees by allowing long kick-offs to continue, long after it was known what damage they caused.
Citing the example of the recent rule changes in the NFL – designed to reduce exactly the same problem, and limit their legal exposure – I said it was bleeding obvious that the NRL would have to make its own change or eventually face legal Armageddo
NRL Concussion Long Kick-Offs Brain Damage Legal Liability
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