AFL's red-faced admission on concussion study

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The AFL has issued an apology to players who took portion successful a concussion survey aft an autarkic reappraisal recovered the probe task to beryllium "under-funded and under-resourced".

The autarkic review, chaired by elder lawyer Bernard Quinn KC, recovered that 7 editorials from subordinate prof and ex-AFL concussion advisor Paul McCrory contained plagiarised substance successful what was an "embarrassing blemish" connected McCrory's reputation.

A 260-page study from the reappraisal was made nationalist by the AFL connected Tuesday. It determined that the probe task was under-funded and under-resourced and suffered from a deficiency of governance, stewardship and coordination successful however it was rolled-out and implemented, and however it simultaneously accommodated objective and probe objectives.

AFL wide counsel Andrew Dillon said the league accepted the result of the study and apologised to the players who were "let down" by the study.

"The AFL apologises to the past players who gave up their clip successful the anticipation of amended knowing their ain conditions and to assistance with the probe for the payment of existent and aboriginal players and were fto down by the mode successful which immoderate of the probe and objective programs were astatine times conducted," Dillon said successful an AFL statement.

"We volition proceed to invest, engage, assets and bash amended connected this benignant of probe and the facilitation of attraction going forward."

The AFL's apology comes aft erstwhile Eagles premiership subordinate Daniel Venables, whose vocation was chopped abbreviated owed to concussion problems, was captious of the league's handling of concussion issues, saying the AFL "100 per cent" fto him down.

"I wasted a batch of time, the astir important portion of my rehab," helium told Seven earlier this year.

"Yeah, for definite (I could beryllium playing footy).

"There were a batch of reddish flags looking backmost connected it, and it's shattering."

Despite the study shedding airy connected McCrory's plagiarism, it besides recovered that the instances of plagiarism "do not impact oregon taint the work" that the prof had undertaken arsenic they "do not impact the falsification oregon fabrication of applicable research".

While the sheet recovered that McCrory was neither an worker nor a contractor to the AFL, but alternatively an advisor connected an "informal and mostly unpaid basis", the narration betwixt the 2 parties was recovered to person "problematic" aspects, peculiarly relating to "the lack of wide reporting lines".

McCrory was recovered to person "protracted periods" of nary oregon delayed responses to correspondence. It was deemed that much progressive oversight from the AFL whitethorn person helped mitigate these problems.

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