'Biggest fear' that sparked 'drastic' NRL change

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The NRL's caller concussion protocols are the code's astir superior determination to prevention the crippled from itself.

Privately successful the game's interior sanctums, determination are existent fears that rugby league arsenic we cognize it could beryllium dormant and buried wrong the adjacent 20 years.

With players getting bigger, faster and stronger and concussion becoming much and much of an issue, officials are acrophobic astir the game's future.

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The NRL's biggest fearfulness is that 1 monolithic people enactment suit of erstwhile players could bankrupt the code.

In the USA, erstwhile players person received billions of dollars successful compensation, portion the AFL is presently embroiled successful a people enactment involving much than 60 erstwhile players successful the Supreme Court of Victoria.

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The NRL has decided drastic enactment is indispensable aft a bid of sickening caput knocks successful the opening 2 rounds.

There volition present beryllium a mandatory 11-day stand-down for players diagnosed with a class 1 concussion - taking the determination of erstwhile they tin instrumentality distant from the clubs.

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The alteration volition beryllium brought successful immediately, specified is the interest wrong the game.

For astir of the game's archetypal century, players who were knocked retired acold had smelling salts waved nether their nose, slapped connected the butt and told, 'Get backmost retired there'.

In caller times, arsenic sports subject worldwide realised the semipermanent effects of caput knocks, rugby league has taken a much superior presumption of concussion.

In a changing world, wherever astute lawyers tin whip up people enactment lawsuits, rugby league realises it has to accommodate oregon die.

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