In Brisbane this week, a huge tv audience for a sporting event witnessed a classic rugby league match for the deciding state of Origin match between Queensland & New South Wales.
That audience would have seen this episode just before the quarter hour mark that raised a few eyebrows as well as issues regarding player welfare. This would be even more particular to Australia currently, where head injury and concussion has been in the news recently with claims that medical management has to be respected and medics lead the debate on appropriate patient/player care. Australia seeks to tackle concussion (blog link)
Here is the first of two videos worth examining whilst only being able to speculate from television footage what has occured, and without the benefit of the onfield medic's opinion which should always be respected.
Another story in todays paper after player knocked out in Rabbitohs game:
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