Yes, Rugby Is Physical But It Is A Force For Good

The thing about a bandwagon is that once it starts to roll, more and more people want to jump on. That’s what’s happening with rugby and concussion.

- Colin Boag

 

Everyone knows there’s a problem, inasmuch as for years lack of information, and the game’s culture, led to instances of concussion being concealed, and ignored. Things have changed, and the game’s administrators have taken action to ensure that once a player is concussed they are taken off the pitch, and not allowed back on until deemed fit to play again.

In a recent Sunday Times, David Walsh wrote a piece which was deeply worrying, not because it put the spotlight on the concussion issue, but because it seemed to be based on a couple of ‘samples of one’. Walsh was inspired to write the article after sitting next to a woman whose octogenarian father died after suffering from dementia.