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Speaker 1: Well, it's fair to say World rugby's copping it today

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Speaker 1: a even more so than yesterday. This is following the

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Speaker 1: death of Shane Christy, the former Highlander who had the

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Speaker 1: headaches and the memory loss and all those other symptoms

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Speaker 1: that were consistent with CTE from too many head knocks.

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Speaker 1: A former Wales number eight with early on set dementia,

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Speaker 1: Alex Popham, has gone straight to World Rugby and the

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Speaker 1: All Blacks as Twitter accounts and told them they've got

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Speaker 1: blood on their hands, and our very own Scotti Stevenson

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Speaker 1: has written a piece saying it's time to stop spending

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Speaker 1: money on PR. This is obviously for rugby, time to

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Speaker 1: stop spending money on PR and start spending money on

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Speaker 1: helping the former players with these symptoms. Absolutely, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there is no doubt that World Rugby could be doing

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Speaker 1: more right. The standdown period for a professional rugby player

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Speaker 1: for a suspected concussion is, what do you think, twelve

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Speaker 1: days It's that's ridiculous, twelve days, twelve days In boxing,

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Speaker 1: it's thirty days. And if they actually lose consciousness and

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Speaker 1: they know they've lost consciousness, it could be anywhere from

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Speaker 1: six months up that they're forced to stand down. I

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Speaker 1: think we've all seen pretty gnarly cases of head knocks recently,

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Speaker 1: or players talking about morains over the summer period, only

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Speaker 1: for them to be back on the field when they,

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Speaker 1: if you were being careful, should not be back on

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Speaker 1: the field. And who knows what World Rugby will be

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Speaker 1: forced to do once these lawsuits are successful. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. Our ability to keep blaming that the rugby

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Speaker 1: bosses is going to run out if it hasn't already.

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Speaker 1: No player in twenty twenty five can blame World Rugby

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Speaker 1: if they end up with these symptoms in years to come.

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Speaker 1: No one playing rugby in twenty twenty five doesn't know

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Speaker 1: that if you take repeated knocks to the head, you

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Speaker 1: are opening yourself up to future problems. We know that.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we already knew it when Shane Christy was

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Speaker 1: playing professionally, even if we didn't know it as widely

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Speaker 1: as we do today. It is terrible that this may

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Speaker 1: be the thing that has happened to him. It is

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Speaker 1: terrible that it is undoubtedly happening to rugby players playing today.

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Speaker 1: But personal responsibility is now very much in play. Here

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