Originally Posted by
Meg
There are four categories for classifying impact: low, medium, high, severe.
COR’s head was slammed into the ground, rendering him momentarily unconscious and needing to be helped from the ground in a dazed state, and then being ruled out for the rest of the match with concussion.
That should be classified as high impact in my view - and Rioli should have got two matches not one.
Seems to me that the AFL have gone soft on head-high contact at a time when we are learning more and more about the long-term health risk of concussion injury.
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