Pretty disturbing article about Hohaia's treatment by Saints here. I know players will often play needled up, but for a club board to know a player has head issues and adopt a play or you don't get paid stance is abhorrent. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/arti ... d=11608680 Never really knew what went on with Daniel Holdsworth who had similar issues, but I'd hope we took a more empathetic approach. I do suspect generally that a lot of players take the field when they shouldn't through a sense of not letting the team down or being coerced to do so. It's worrying.

Pretty disturbing article about Hohaia's treatment by Saints here. I know players will often play needled up, but for a club board to know a player has head issues and adopt a play or you don't get paid stance is abhorrent. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/arti ... d=11608680 Never really knew what went on with Daniel Holdsworth who had similar issues, but I'd hope we took a more empathetic approach. I do suspect generally that a lot of players take the field when they shouldn't through a sense of not letting the team down or being coerced to do so. It's worrying.

Disgusting way to treat someone.

Players have painkilling injections all off the time, even when training if needed, it's totally wrong but when squads are down on numbers its just what happens.

Blimey - fair to say Saints are entirely refuting Hohaia's version of events: http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/5791

Blimey - fair to say Saints are entirely refuting Hohaia's version of events: http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/5791

Mrs Barista wrote:Blimey - fair to say Saints are entirely refuting Hohaia's version of events: http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/5791 Blimey, strong words. Could get messy this one.

Mrs Barista wrote:Blimey - fair to say Saints are entirely refuting Hohaia's version of events: http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/5791 Blimey, strong words. Could get messy this one.

And this is where the restrictions of the salary cap come into play to the detriment of player welfare IMHO.
Clubs have to resort to either playing youngsters with not much first team experience because most of the salary cap is used on a fairly narrow band of top end players and a (relatively) shoe string back up squad.
If you have half a dozen injuries at once in crucial positions you're more likely to force/coerce/blackmail your better/higher paid players into playing when they really are not fit and susceptible to further short term injury or even worse because of the desire for success at all costs.