https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/wa ... mesmanship Worth giving this a go, surely? The game cannot continue as it is.

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/wa ... mesmanship Worth giving this a go, surely? The game cannot continue as it is.

It's an obvious fix. Any potential head injury should result in a HIA assessment.

It already does.
What Burgess is proposing would encourage players to try and play through or conceal injuries due to concerns they would be taken off. That's very counterproductive.

Is there evidence from the NRL to suggest this is the case?

Perhaps, any incident that results in a stoppage that the refs don't initially see should just be put on report and dealt with after the game?

Clearly Burgess knows nothing about RL…..

Well, he doesn't do most of the coaching at Warrington, apparently

I personally think any instance where a player stops the game because of an injury should result in a substitution, HIA or a green card regardless of whether the game is stopped by the referee or a club doctor. Anyone stopping the game for a head injury should result in an automatic HIA assessment. If contact to the head is bad enough for it to stop the game then it requires a HIA.

I'm sure I saw in a game this weekend (I believe it was Warrington), the Doctor or physio saying a player was fine to play on following a head injury, the ref stated that it would then be a green card, so the Doctor or physio changed his mind and advised the player would go off for a HIA.

I would also scrap the video ref reviewing foul play. If a player knows they won't get a player sent off following the incident, they won't stay down.

They won't implement it because they're petty and won't want it looking like a teams' coach has told them what to do. But the game is dying because of constant interference and this pantomime act of staying down while we wait for the video ref to chime in. There has to be middle ground.