Keary's surprise take on burning NRL issue

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Sydney Roosters prima Luke Keary has travel to the defence of the NRL's concussion process, suggesting that doctors are needed to prevention players from themselves.

Keary is nary alien to caput knocks, having suffered a bid of concussions that adjacent sparked aboriginal status talk, and played wearing headgear for the archetypal clip astatine the weekend.

While helium says helium "feels amended than (his) aged self" contempt a bid of caput knocks, Keary backed the NRL's existent concussion process aft it came nether occurrence successful circular one.

"We're not conscionable going to instrumentality our hands up and go, 'Oh yeah, I've got a sound instrumentality maine disconnected the field', someone's going to person to resistance you disconnected the field," helium said.

"You spot it each the clip with players that are knocked out, they don't privation to spell disconnected the field.

"I don't cognize astir (the question of) tin the NRL spot coaches and clubs. Can you spot the players? Probably not."

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Keary revealed that the determination to deterioration the headgear came aft conversations with Roosters manager Trent Robinson.

"Robbo's tossed it up to maine a mates of times now," helium said.

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"I hadn't truly thought astir it, determination was 1 floating astir astatine grooming during the week past week (and) I chucked it on, truthful I felt alright.

"Like Trent said, if there's thing you tin bash to assistance with knocks, you whitethorn arsenic good effort it.

Keary said the added extortion made him consciousness "a small bit" much assured during games.

"You don't truly deliberation astir it during the game," helium said.

"I conjecture it stops the small elbows and hits and things similar that alternatively than the large ones."

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