LIST OF THE 15CAMPAIGNERS’DEMANDS
1. World Rugby to accept playing professionally can lead to CTE and other neurodegenerative diseases
2. Contact training to be limited
3. Limit to substitutes
4. Players’ unions to have greater independence
5. Zero-hours contracts to be abolished
6. Better testing in preseason
7. Better sideline testing
8. Concussion ‘spotters’ to have authority to remove players with symptoms
9. Database of players’ injury history
10. Remove rugby’s reliance on groups with conservative positions on concussion
11. Urgent research on front row forwards
12. Greater education for players on concussion
13. Full set of medical tests for a player for every three concussions
14. Remove reliance on MRI scan to prove brain trauma
15. Better postretirement care