The Rugby Paper

LIST OF THE 15CAMPAIGN­ERS’DEMANDS

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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

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