The NRL is considering restricting contact training including in pre-season to combat head injuries and concussion, but any decisions on limiting contact training sessions will be based on scientific evidence, NRL football boss Graham Annesley told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Autopsies carried out on the brains of two former players who donated their brains to a special research team after they passed away has shown signs of CTE, the debilitating brain disease at the centre of a billion dollar legal case brought by former players against the NFL.
