fast forwarded to the half time blue, angriest you ever saw Kouta, can't find the 95' prelim, that night Diesel got knocked out early (cant' remember who by), but clearly remember him running the boundary in the last 1/4 - any help on this?

Peter Dean was knocked rotten in the Prelim as well - probably played with concussion in Grand Final as well.

Pretty sure it was Darren Crocker who knocked out Williams

& Schwass got Dean

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but how fantastic is that commentary compared to the dross we get these days?

Concise, calls the action and little else. And it's not all about the commentators. Yes, I'm looking your way, Dermie and Monga.

Now get him to do the bit with diesel running the boundary later on

I remember him sitting on the bench and waving to the camera. Gerard Healy commented that he was waving to let everyone know he's okay for next week.

Peter Dean was knocked senseless. Imagine telling him he wasn't playing in a grand final because of it.

This is just the start. The class actions are coming. We mightn't be the litigious society like the United States - but it doesn't take Blind Freddy to see that a professional athlete has a compelling case. If the AFL had medical knowledge that sending players back on the ground (instead of sending them to hospital) and damage to the brain occurs during and/or post-career - and the AFL did nothing to instigate rule changes surounding concussion - then they better have a good legal team.

Maybe in GW's case the loss of memory means something. He has always been acutely aware of details in his career, and I've heard more than one interview where he's corrected the interviewer with a very minor detail regarding an incident or a game.

Really sad if this is anything more than 'normal' time-induced vagueness.

I wonder whether this existed.

NFL only recently got serious about concussions. It really wasn't talked about much medically beyond the last 5 years perhaps. Now it is a priority of on field handling.

I'm glad the king hits and shirtfronts of yester-year have been eroded from the game (Wellingham sniping notwithstanding).

I wonder if the massive hit by Milburn on Silvagni has had ongoing effects for Stephen. Not just the initial contact but worse the head clattering into the Princes Park turf and him all but motionless... it's a good case study. I don't remember the post incident handling other than angry supporters and Milburn jibing the crowd.. was SOS carted off to hospital or just taken to the rooms? Did he play the next week?

Surely this indicates that he doesnt have damage....if he can correct interviewers over fine details. As another has said, its not unusual in times of high stress and activity for recollection to be impaired. Adrenaline flight or fight response. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of ... _on_memory

Agreed!

Sandy Roberts a quality caller, too. Just tells it how it is. None of this over the top rubbish of Taylor or endless rhetorical quesitons by Macavaney "isn't it?" "doesn't he?" "won't it?"