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Well - I think a lot of the mental health problems that retired footballers have comes from too many head knocks throughout their career.

Some players go for a specky without any regard to the player in front of them. 

To stop this:

1) The specky mark should be reversed if the front player gets a knee to the head.
2) The offending player should get a week to two on the sidelines if found guilty of recklessness - similar to the tunnelling rule brought in after the Michael Barlow incident.

 

TFAF, I reckon if Trump understood Aussie Rules, and posted here on Oz Footy, he would be calling you out for being  a woke leftie  mate,  after that post.

Gotta feeling recreational drug use is more a factor for any former or current  players mental health fragility since the 90's , than a knee to the back of the head in a marking contest is sadly.....

 

Freezin wrote:

TFAF, I reckon if Trump understood Aussie Rules, and posted here on Oz Footy, he would be calling you out for being  a woke leftie  mate,  after that post.

Gotta feeling recreational drug use is more a factor for any former or current  players mental health fragility since the 90's , than a knee to the back of the head in a marking contest is sadly.....


 

Freeze - Im 54 and played nine games of Ammos last year - happy to be called woke on this one issue. 

I would also like put the accidental elbow to the back of the head (Alastair Lynch style) into the same bag. 

These guys know their bodies and shouldn't be placing elbows or knees near heads. 

Agree drug use and mental health important too. 

Mental health will improve with conservative governments who don't treat masculinity as toxic.