Opinion: Peter V’landys gets it. Phil Gould does not. And I reckon you are a work in progress, Andrew Johns
Twenty-odd years ago I was returning with Nick Farr-Jones and Campo from a Wallaby Test in Brissie and just coming off the air-bridge at Sydney Airport, when we all ran into the NSW State of Origin team, about to fly north for their own game.
Well, as it happened, the league Immortal presumptive didn’t want to talk league at all, but had some queries about the book he was holding, one I had written and released the previous year about the Kokoda Track. He fired off cogent questions, and I answered the best I could, at which point he got to his real point.
But the whole point of the current focus on concussion is that it is only in the last decade or so that it has been truly understood in this country just how dangerous it is. When I first started writing about it regularly I was an outlier, looking upon as a loon by many of the league brethren and making trouble where there was none.Because most footballers took it as given back then, that boxers were the only ones who could seriously hurt.
All these changes have kept more jockeys alive than there otherwise would be, with less brain damage and less of them in wheelchairs. They knew the risks back in 1860s, just as they know them now. That is not the issue. , V’landys’ crackdown is not just about securing the future of rugby league, it is only chance the game has, and even then it is going to be a close-run thing.Speaking of Ricky, I know you suspect that there are likely very few things that Naomi Osaka could learn from him despite Ricky’s his frequent blistering back-handers.
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