The Florian Fritz concussion incident

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Last night Toulouse played Racing Metro with a spot in the play offs at stake.

18 minutes in and Fritz takes an accidental, but sickening knee to the face.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdNQQFm5tdo

Fritz is clearly in a terrible state, he looks as if he's been in the ring with Tyson for 8 rounds. He's unstable and dazed, having trouble walking and as he tries to leave the pitch he collapses.

Yet despite this, unbelievably 10 minutes later he comes back onto the pitch and plays for the rest of the first half.

What the hell were the Toulouse medical team and coaching staff playing at allowing a player in his state back on to the field? How could he be deemed fit? And where was the duty of care?

munkian wrote:

No 7&1/2 wrote:Following on from the George Smith collision was it? He came back on didn't he after looking for all the world done in or is my memory shot?

Hibbard seemed to shrug it off, don't think he even left his feet, Smith was completely out of it, staggerring about like he'd had 10 pints but came back on - very dodgy

Look at it again. Specifically the next scrum after the collision with Smith. After a relativly short scrum the ball is fed out to the backs and the front rows stand up. Then hibbard completely collapses. Catches up about 3 or 4 phases later and is totally out of it. I was screaming at the tele at the time for them to take him off.

See I thought he was messing - it looked quite comedic - the 'crucified' position etc

I'll re-watch it - always a nice match to re-look over