hobbo1
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@fade-to-black said in [Boyd Cornder Cap Concessions](/post/1299793) said:@jc99 said in [Boyd Cornder Cap Concessions](/post/1299782) said:@jirskyr said in [Boyd Cornder Cap Concessions](/post/1299510) said:@gallagher said in [Boyd Cornder Cap Concessions](/post/1299494) said:@jirskyr said in [Boyd Cornder Cap Concessions](/post/1299476) said:I'm still waiting for the precedent where a player sits out 12 weeks of footy from his first concussion. Cordner has known and long-term concussion issues, and his Origin selection was questionable in the first place, based on his known condition, let alone the decision to put him back on after that first head knock.
I don't think there's an NRL supporter around who was surprised to see Cordner go down hard after a head collision, and basically everyone called him out for the series.
The Roosters are asking dispensation for a decision that has been taken due to consistent and repeated head trauma, not a unique outcome from a rep game.
If this is the way it works, then per OP, select your worst or injured players for rep games, maybe even down as far as Tonga vs Samoa, and run them out, casts and stitches and moonboots and all, let them exacerbate the existing injury, then write off a cool 1/3rd million.
So a club can just select their worst player for a rep match? How's that work?
I was joking of course, I have yet to see a player run out in a moonboot.
The point being the injury allowance is supposed to be compensation for new injuries incurred by rep players, not for concussion-prone has-beens who continue to get selected for rep because their club is institutionalised at the Origin level.
No way was Cordner good enough to play Origin this year on form, but he was selected as incumbent, despite having huge injury clouds over his multiple concussions. And the coach is ex-Roosters. Lo and behold Cordner goes down in the first hard collision.
Not knocking the bloke as a warrior, but they are looking after his well-being VERY after the fact. Origin had very little to do with his long-term struggles with head knocks.
You're incorrect. The allowance isn't for new injuries, the NRL CEO himself said that isn't taken into account when the NRL decides whether to give a club compensation.
How do they come to the decision of who gets what re: compensation? As usual it's a hotch-potch dogs breakfast that changes from one club to the next. Disgraceful.
Will be interesting to see if PVL and his cronies cave-in to the Roosters request to play underage Suualli.
I’m sure Suualli has been given the green light