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Does seem the TV companies are not really willing to show replays when players get injured anymore.

That looked like a try as well.

Then tells him he needs to go HIA then when he doesn't gives him a green card. Baffling.

Yeah a little bit iffy a number of decisions for both teams. Looked a nasty head knock, Eagles lad was all over the shop.

Not a clue here after watching the replay about 3 times, looks an awful decision. No chance he called offside and they chose to take a scrum? Is that even a rule or did I imagine that. Probably watch to the next try, was a decent game to start with.

Started off quite close with Sheffield making a lot of mistakes but not helped one little bit by the officials making that decision to give Sheffield the ball at the scrum. We got 15 minutes entertainment though.

He has a season and a half left on his contract but presume he will have a SL release clause so if a team wanted him they could probably take him for nothing anyway. But we can go back to the problem that it will be hard for any SL team to match what he is earning right now a bit like when Salford and Huddersfield came in for Brandon Moore. But for the time being lets hope no SL clubs notice him because I won't be complaining because players with his try scoring record are few and far between.

Won't matter after next season.

Any SL club who thought they could get him for pennies. By all accounts he nearly agreed terms with Wigan before signing for Fax choosing playing regular rugby over been a bit part player and loaned back out to a championship club.

I know right, imagine how many tries he would score in a good team.

Seems about right for Rugby League. 4 Votes from Champ teams should be pretty easy to get as I imagine teams like Bradford/York/London who all have very little chance of normal promotion any time soon will see this as their best option and then it should be easy enough to pick up one more.

This vote has the potential to go totally belly up for IMG. Maybe they should give Super League clubs 2 votes again to get the desired result.

I were a little bit surprised/relieved when Saits took Ritson as Walmsley looked the better player last season and he seems to have kicked on again this year. The good side for us is he is not your prototypical SL winger but I have no doubt he would still continue to average over a try a game if he made the step up. Its either that or Fax are so good that we are making him look this good which to be fair is hard to believe this season.

Not sure but its something that probably needs looking at. I guess each situation is different but in say Rangi Chase, Jansin Turgut I think responsibility has to be with the RFL where as other cases may be different but I would say overall the players should be the responsibility of the RFL and not just looked at as pieces of meat who can be forgot about once they finish playing.

I'd be surprised although he is under contract.

The players case could probably be built on some of the things you say there. Their argument will be that they were never made fully aware of the dangers because like you say this isn't a new thing and research has been done decades ago so was the care of the players neglected. I think in this thread it is easy to see how both sides will argue their cases and what they are built on and its really hard to say if the players will win or not but one thing it will do that can't be a bad thing is raise awareness for people playing the game in the future and that has to be a positive.

Rugby's dirty little secret, its only recently that any sort of after care has come in for players leaving the game or having to retire early because of injury or for that matter those struggling with substance abuse, depression or similar. Out of sight out of mind and I think that is also one of the reasons these players are getting so much stick, most people currently in the game don't want to be hearing talk about brain injuries when they are trying to grow a game that is as physical as Rugby League.

To be fair I never thought a team would come close to our 2003 record but Wakefield this season look well capable of not winning a game and its going to take some doing to get their average points per game up to the 12 or so the mighty Fax managed that year.

Probably just a cup final hangover for the Bulls. Fax V York game very dour and a bit of a borefest. Fax never troubled and look badly out of sorts and low on confidence and York lucky to put 17 players on the pitch so probably a moral victory for them. Another 2 tries for Walmsley and in all honesty if we hold on to him them we have done very well, hes probably the most electric player outside of SL.

Hate to say it as I do like Wakey as a club but its about time they went down, they have been making up numbers for far too long now, just happy to collect their SL funding every year and waste it every season. The irony isn't lost on me though that they are eventually doing something with their stadium about 2 decades after framing the future was talked about and just in time for when franchising is coming back in all but name. How much of a joke would it be if a forward thinking club like Fev finally achieved SL only to be relegated the following season in favor of Wakey who finish below the top 4 but make it in on off field criteria.

The saddest part in all this, those players the RFL have probably washed their hands of up until this and those idiots on social media using this as an opportunity to slate those players that provided them entertainment for probably very little return. Andy Mazey comes accross as your typical club owner, doesn't give a toss about the players until something like this happens. Beaumont offering Fozzard money was really low as well. While a lot of the anger is lead by Tommy Robinson supporting, Andrew Tate loving, Matt Le tissier worshipping type folks on twitter though it does make it hard to listen to the other side of the players.

Yeah from Fozzard's tweets it looks like the claim is based around the RFL either knowing more than they let on to the players or some sort of neglect. Either way its great to see the "Rugby League Family" rallying round these players with potential brain injuries rather than just wishing they slowly disappear in to a hole........

Makes sense to make the game safer then otherwise down the line the RFL won't get insured.

2 really bad decisions from the video ref there. That should not be happening and its had a huge say in the result of the game.

Whats going on here?