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Peter FitzSimons

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If it please Her Honour, in the class action of Brain-Damaged NRL Players vs The NRL 2035 – alleging grossly breached its duty of care to its employees by allowing long kick-offs to continue – I cite a column published by the SMH on May 2, 2024.
smh.com.au/sport/the-expe…

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Michael Morgan(@MichaelMorgan64) 's Twitter Profile Photo

scof Peter FitzSimons The NRL only needs a few ex players to successfully sue on the basis of head injuries sustained while playing and it could be all over. They have to be seen to be being proactive. The kick-off is low hanging fruit.

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Peter FitzSimons(@Peter_Fitz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your comment apposite if I was calling for league to be shut down.
I'm not.
I'm saying when they have identified a part of the game delivering bulk brain damage - which is long kick-offs - they are legally and morally bound to make safer.
Like rugby union did with scrums.

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Jamie Wall(@JamieWall2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Peter FitzSimons Feel like this is quite a simple fix if they want to, which is just to incentivise short kickoffs like they did with goal line restarts, and/or kicking the ball dead like in NFL? Maybe play restarts on the 10m line or something.

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My column. No pun intended, this is a no-brainer.

The expert opinion is in: NRL must take on the kick-off concussion issue smh.com.au/sport/the-expe…

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Peter FitzSimons(@Peter_Fitz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yup. But Churchill believed the thrust of Kitchener: “Supposing, one submarine pops up opposite the town of Gallipoli and waves a Union Jack three times, the whole Turkish garrison on the Peninsula will take to their heels and make a bee line for Bulair.”
They were wrong.

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Right in the heart of Kelly Country, I was privileged to have the late, great, Ian Jones take me all over, showing the hidden haunts of the Kelly Gang, and was quite stunned at the beauty of the whole region.

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The best of Victoria, however, is the regional towns. If is not the most beautiful town in the country I haven't seen it. See it in autumn, as the leaves start to fall.
Not even , or the mighty could argue the toss as to its beauty!

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