Icons split over NRL's ongoing concussion saga

New South Wales large Andrew Johns has called for the NRL's autarkic doc to beryllium moved retired of the Bunker.

A time aft Raiders manager Ricky Stuart accused the RLPA of "not trusting coaches" aft fullback Sebastian Kris was forced disconnected the ground, Johns said it was important for the doctors to beryllium connected the sideline, alternatively than watching connected a screen.

"There's got to beryllium an autarkic doc astatine the crushed who assesses the subordinate look to face, and talks to him," Johns told Nine's NRL Sunday Footy Show.

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The NRL presently has 2 spotters watching each crippled from the Bunker, who are overseen by the doc who has nary relation with either nine involved.

Sebastian Kris with Brad Fittler and Andrew Johns (Getty)

After the spotters place a imaginable hit, the autarkic doc makes an assessment, earlier speaking to the referee if they deem a subordinate needs to travel from the ground.

However, critics of the acceptable up - including Stuart - judge the having the doc successful the Bunker and not connected the sideline undermines the integrity of the nine doctors, and besides leads to players being pulled from the crushed with nary symptoms.

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"Do you deliberation I'd fto a subordinate play if they had a concussion oregon is concussed?" Stuart asked reporters aft the Raiders' one-point nonaccomplishment to the Cowboys connected Saturday.

"I don't conscionable spot the players' comments erstwhile they travel to the sideline successful regards to that."

Bulldogs winger Jacob Kiraz. (Cameron Spencer via Getty Images)

HIAs performed successful different games connected Bulldogs winger Jacob Kiraz and Knights fullback Kalyn Ponga besides drew the ire of their respective coaches.

Dolphins manager Wayne Bennett has besides called for the strategy to beryllium scrapped.

Johns said reactions of some Kiraz and Ponga erstwhile being told by trainers they were being dragged should archer league bosses each they request to know.

"The absorption [from] the players … they're looking astatine the trainers going 'what are you talking about'?" helium said.

"Dale [Finucane] didn't travel off, look astatine the absorption of Junior Tatola. If you're being just dinkum, you're saying 'well Dale, you've gotta travel disconnected excessively due to the fact that you've collided heads level out'.

"There's got to beryllium a doc astatine the ground."

But chap panellist Brad Fittler disagreed, but conceded connection betwixt the autarkic doc successful the bunker and aesculapian unit astatine the grounds could beryllium improved.

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"I deliberation the strategy is good, astatine the infinitesimal they're evidently teetering connected the broadside of caution and immoderate of them look ridiculous," helium said.

"At a crushed [the doctor] is besides distracted by crowds and each these things that are happening.

"If you've got idiosyncratic sitting successful a concern wherever we are - we've got TV screens each astir with the quality to determination guardant time, there's a batch of exertion progressive successful what they're looking at."

After its implementation, NRL caput of shot Graham Annesley said the onus inactive fell "on the nine doctors and aesculapian unit to instrumentality the due enactment and the strategy is designed to region the subordinate from the tract arsenic soon arsenic possible".

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