New law rushed in to combat NRL's big issue

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The NRL volition present a mandatory one-game stand-down for players diagnosed with a class 1 concussion.

The alteration volition beryllium implemented instantly and beryllium enforced from circular 3 - this play - reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

The caller regularisation takes powerfulness distant from nine unit to find whether a subordinate has passed concussion protocols and is acceptable to play the pursuing week.

The determination comes aft a fig of concussions successful the opening 2 rounds of the season, the astir high-profile of which was Kalyn Ponga.

Ponga sat retired the past period and a fractional of the 2022 play aft suffering 3 concussions successful the abstraction of six weeks.

In circular 1 this twelvemonth helium near the tract for a caput wounded appraisal precocious successful the game, but passed.

In circular 2 connected Sunday, Ponga was knocked retired by a caput clash and present faces an indefinite stint successful the casualty ward, erstwhile again.

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Rugby league is lone 1 of galore sports astir the satellite coming to grips with the semipermanent impacts of concussion, and trying desperately to assistance support their athletes.

This week more than 60 erstwhile Australian shot players launched a people enactment suit against the AFL seeking compensation for semipermanent effects of concussion.

Former Newcastle subordinate James McManus took the Knights to tribunal aft helium was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy successful his aboriginal 30s, pursuing a fig of caput knocks passim his NRL career.

In 2021 the NSW Supreme Court finalised the lawsuit successful favour of the Knights.

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