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Legend's widow makes urgent plea to AFL boss - CtrlF.XYZ

Legend's widow makes urgent plea to AFL boss

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The widow of St Kilda fable Danny Frawley has urged the AFL to "get it done" and promote players to donate their brains to probe into the effects of concussion.

Frawley, who died successful 2019, was recovered to person chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) successful a post-mortem. It was precocious confirmed that erstwhile North Queensland manager Paul Green besides had CTE erstwhile helium died.

In 2021, a Victorian coroner recommended AFL players beryllium encouraged to donate their brains to subject successful bid for researchers to amended recognize CTE.

Speaking to Nine's Today, Anita Frawley pleaded with the AFL to get a determination on.

"In fairness to the AFL they've had truthful galore things connected their plate, but it is time, it is good and genuinely overdue, that they get onto it," she explained.

"Get progressive with the Australian Sports Brain Bank, they're the champion successful the business.

"They're the ones I dealt with, they're the ones I cognize Amanda Green (Paul Green's wife) has dealt with. (Associate Professor) Michael Buckland is superb astatine what helium does.

"Enough, determination connected and get it done. It's arsenic elemental arsenic that."

Frawley was concussed astir 20 times during his 240 games for the Saints. He played from 1984-1995, an epoch erstwhile it was considered a badge of honour to play connected aft being hit.

"The impacts changed his personality," Anita Frawley said.

"He was a implicit fittingness freak, helium conscionable became this feline that I couldn't get disconnected the couch. His temper changed, impulsivity, conscionable forgetfulness.

"He was up astatine the workplace with me, we started this workplace for him, due to the fact that I felt determination was thing going connected with his brain.

"He was expected to beryllium astatine an All-Australian gathering with (AFL boss) Gil McLachlan.

"Gil rang and said, 'Where are you mate?' He made up immoderate excuse to Gil and helium hung up the telephone and helium was devastated.

"He said, 'What is going connected with my brain?'

"Knowing Danny for truthful galore years, helium would ne'er person missed an All-Australian meeting, it was truthful important to him.

"He knew determination was thing incorrect with his brain, and truthful did I."

It's memories similar that that thrust Anita Frawley to support the unit connected the AFL for change.

"I inquire myself each day, wherefore americium I doing this to myself? It's similar anyone who's had thing similar what I've had hap to my family," she said.

"It's purely due to the fact that I don't privation to spot others spell done it.

"I watched the interrogation the different time with Amanda Green and it conscionable broke my heart, knowing what her kids and her household are going done and what the adjacent 12 months looks similar for them.

"That's the motivation.

"The past players are successful that limbo place. The fearfulness they indispensable have, bash they person CTE? We request that research, we request to look aft our past players who gave truthful overmuch to this large game."

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