Mayo Medical Team should be Sacked

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Just throwing this out there as I thought this when I watched the game live.
Is it a case that a new manager and new management teams judgement may have been clouded as they were being hammered and just wanted him to stay on?

[IolarCoisCuain]

Can we change the thread title to something more meaningful - this is a worthwhile discussion to have..

+1. The discussion is better and more serious than the thread title suggests.

[moysider]

Just throwing this out there as I thought this when I watched the game live.
Is it a case that a new manager and new management teams judgement may have been clouded as they were being hammered and just wanted him to stay on?

I doubt that very much. There was nothing to be gained by that.

[Never beat the deeler]

We are slowly watching the neurological disintegration of Johnny Sexton, who I am in no doubt will suffer a further concussion in the 6 nations.

It was only a matter of time before Johnny Sexton came into it. The papers have that incident completely overhyped. This thread is similar. It's very unlikely that Lee Keegan was concussed at all, the blow was to the top of his head. The recent Sexton blow was to his jaw.

Concussion is only likely if you get a clash to the temple area.

Our 2 lads in Limerick should have came back onto the pitch that day, I'm still awaiting the reason for the hold up.

One of the most ignorant things i have read on the subject, im amazed with the amount of info available that someone would have that opinion !
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11264856
This is a long article but well worth reading, some of it is frightening

I had three weeks of no games and I thought that would sort me out. But heading into my comeback match I was knocked out at training. It wasn't even a head clash. One of the boys just ran a decoy line and bumped into me and I was knocked out. When you are getting knocked out and no one is even touching your head you realise things have got pretty bad.

When reading that article parts of it reminded me of Jonathan Brown's story. JB was a full forward with Brisbane Lions in the AFL before retiring in June 2014 after many serious concussion incidents. He was known as a courageous player with no regard for his own personal safety, which is apparently a positive here. He would travel 'back with the flight of the ball' and 'crash packs' meaning he was following the ball coming over his own head and had no idea what was coming the other way. The way the mark is officiated in AFL also means that high speed mid-air collisions are inevitable, even encouraged, although they have recently made players accountable when they contact an opponents head.

I remember watching an interview with him some months after when he said he still wasn't right, that he was constantly angry about the house, regularly slurring his words, and even his speech pattern was different (he has a slow QLD drawl at the best of times). Can't find a decent commentary article, and I haven't got around to reading his book yet, but the below link explains that his doctor was willing to break the patient-dr confidentiality if he wouldn't retire of his own will.

http://theconversation.com/repeated-head-injuries-highlight-gaps-in-sports-concussion-management-28395