Ryan MacDonald

[Wakefield Ram]

Saw this on the Main Forum and member of our 2000 Grand Final winning team Ryan MacDonald has dementia. Scroll down the article.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10133477/amp/Rugby-Leagues-dementia-crisis-Bobbie-Goulding-former-pros-open-diagnoses.html?__twitter_impression=true

 

[coolie]

16 hours ago, Wakefield Ram said:

Saw this on the Main Forum and member of our 2000 Grand Final winning team Ryan MacDonald has dementia. Scroll down the article.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10133477/amp/Rugby-Leagues-dementia-crisis-Bobbie-Goulding-former-pros-open-diagnoses.html?__twitter_impression=true

 

Sad for the lad but he also was a bouncer and enjoyed a good scrap, will be difficult to prove its down to playing RL I would have thought from a legal angle

And as for Bobby Goulding

I thought he was brain damaged when he was a player the way he throw punches at every opportunity

Fingers crossed for the players suffering that they get at least something for playing the worlds greatest game

[Blind side johnny]

Very sad and I trust that the RFL are well on with this.

I can't help being paranoid though when I see the press coverage that this has generated when there is another "class action" type of suit being pursued on behalf of 175 RU players yet no word in the same press.

[LeagueConvert]

This is what Bobbie G has been diagnosed with. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/

 

[Wakefield Ram]

If you found out you had a fatal disease resulting from a job you did 20 years ago, would you take legal action against your former employer? Miners did with emphysema, workers did with asbestosis, so why is it different for former pro RL players? They will have their lives shortened by decades with a cruel illness and leave their families far worse off. Would you just say "ah well, never mind"? We are fans, this was paid employment for them.