Hopefully some of the people Goulding has repeatedly punched in the face come forward and sue him. Goulding has a duty of care to all the people he has leathered over the years.

As a plumber its like me taking every firm I've worked for to court to sue for knackered knees, elbows and hearing when I'm 70. I know the risks, I wear knee pads and ear defenders.

I truly cannot think of a worse advocate for this case than Bobby Goulding. And this idea that someone like him is thinking about the welfare of other players is derisory.

Sonny Nickle?

Point 1 is a tricky one as you point out and its support I was meaning to get back to normal life not financial. I do think that elite sports people are left with a huge void once they've retired that they struggle to deal with not just in rugby league.

There are other players in the case and possibly more may come forward would we be more sympathetic if Bobby Goulding was not one of them ? Not a perticularly nice chap but let's not dismiss everyone's claim because we don't like one of them as a person ?

Get a grip !! There's only one person who has a valid claim to sue a player over a punch to the head n that's Lance hohia.

It's quite disappointing that the rugby league community has generally stood by players who have become ill Steve Prescott Rob burrow mike Gregory (except Wigan rlfc) yet your letting your dislike of a player downplay the severity of the injuries or even worse implying he deserves them !! Very sad

No it's not the same.....

Your have safe lifting courses etc to minimise risk of injury what did rugby league players have before hia and concussion protocols ?

What's even sadder (but probably makes sense) is that we're being lectured for expressing doubts about the genuineness of a player who spent much of his career hitting other players in the head by a fan who proudly wears a moniker celebrating another player for doing exactly the same thing.

the same Lance who elbowed someone first and played games after that? The same one? Adrian Morleys knocked by Cassidy was far worse as was Newtons on Long

Fair point

Give it a rest please

Agreed.

That was about the 50th concussion of Lance's career.

You can’t say that on here. Pretty much every Wigan fan on here thought Hohia deserved it and were up in arms that flower got sent off. I

no they thought he deserved it and deserved sending off.....

Don't confuse your and the Dezzie Right Hook guy's attitudes to on-field violence with ours.

There's a difference between recognising that an opposition player provoked an incident and approving of one of your own being dumb enough to hand a Grand Final to the opposition on a silver plate.