This could be quite damaging. If they accept liability what happens to the game then? I know there are now protocols in place for head knocks but how many more ex players will creep out of the woodwork. It reminds me of of the asbestos stampede. How many of these players apart from Goulding and Highton have any of you heard of? Must all be skint. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/59045827

This could be quite damaging. If they accept liability what happens to the game then? I know there are now protocols in place for head knocks but how many more ex players will creep out of the woodwork. It reminds me of of the asbestos stampede. How many of these players apart from Goulding and Highton have any of you heard of? Must all be skint. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/59045827

pretty sure Goulding will be too.

While the protocols were a lot lower (non existent) compared to today, surely as they were not in conflict to the scientific evidence at the time, there cant be much of a case?

Will he be suing his dealer for supplying him with drugs too?

Whilst I have every sympathy for anyone in any sport effected by these types of issues it does smack of trying to use todays knowledge to apply to what happened in the past which seems to be a societal thing at the moment.

I am not sure exactly what they are trying to achieve beyond making some money and possibly bankrupting the already pretty poor RFL, trying to raise awareness would seem pointless as that is already the case as witnessed by the major improvements in on field care and then off field care and protocols which are may ahead of what happened in their days.

Here we go,this is a lawsuit thats been coming for a good while it could well be quite literally game changing

Did anybody force Bobby Goulding not to wear a scrum cap?

Perhaps if he didn’t like having a punch up every so often he wouldn’t have had so many head knocks?

or play the game

I agree it's quite worrying. So what do the RFL do? Change the rules to an automatic red card or something for a head shot? There are a lot of footballers going to court for the same thing about heading the ball, do you think they will get anywhere? Should we ban boxing? or do you think the government and courts will single out a sport that doesn't produce hundreds of millions per year? Boxing and football bring in a hell of a lot of revenue so why would they change the rules. Rugby league would be easy to point fingers at and could effectively become a scapegoat. One thing in our favour is that we have Rugby Union. The toffs love Union so any changes forced on Rugby League would have to filter through to Union too. Be interested to hear what some of the older heads on here think about all this. I am 36 so all i have known is Rugby from the 90s onwards but reading accounts from players from the 60's and 70's you got smashed in every tackle whether you were a prop or winger.

the issue is they won v the NFL in america so might have opened the floodgates

can you then sue Ford motors for injuries received in car crashes before seatbelts were mandatory?

Did you know in 1990 and 1991 Bobbie and Ian Gildart where the subs in the challenge cup final

Love watching the old finals back. Goulding left Wigan and just seemed to become a very angry man. I remember watching the u20s final at Leigh about 6 or 7 years ago. His son was playing for Warrington and Goulding (snr) was thrown out for starting a fight in the stands. He is an absolute diving header that mon.

No they weren't

Goulding is a first class bell end . Moaning about what multiple concussions have caused him. Is this the same guy who used to punch at least one opponent in the head every match ?

Goulding was a sub both years, but Gildart wasn't

Correct

Been around him 3 x times in my life

All 3 times he was an absolute bell end

1st time Mike Gregory and Dennis Betts came over to get him away from starting a fight, bought us some drinks and threw him out of a pub (1991ish)
2nd time he thought he'd get his revenge and king hit my mate in a pub from behind (He was with Botica and and his wife and after my got up and pummelled him we had a chat with Botica and he explained he was always like that)
3rd time at Mike Greg's funeral, he stayed behind in the pub when all the other players left to walk to the church/funeral. He (and 2 other players, 1 of which won't surprise you) came in 10mins or so after the funeral started, stood at the back and spent the next 15 mins or so burping and making stupid noises trying to make everyone laugh.
Horrible bloke

The idea of Bobby Goulding trying to sue the RFL for head injuries is laughable. Is he also going to sue all the nightclubs of the Northwest because of all the fights he got into?

He's a first-class lowlife, but this kind of thing does worry me, as I fear it has the potential to seriously impact on the game.

The irony of Bobby Goulding taking legal action for head injury, absolute clown, disgusting human being who would seemingly see the game ruined for a few cheap quid...Because thats all it is, he's not interested in the safety of the players going forward as his legal team claim. Utter bellend.

Its not just about Goulding and the other players in Rugby League.

The issue has been started by players in Rugby Union and involves far more than the ten in League.

So, are they are all bell ends?

I suspect it's Goulding's hypocrisy that rankles.

He never worried about head injuries to players when he was hitting them in the head himself.

The responses are just about Goulding though. Dont think anyones saying there isnt an issue and people feel for players affected.

But Goulding, whilst im sorry he's suffering, will likely of received more trauma to the head in fights he's started in his life than he will of playing rugby league, the hypocrisy of the man is staggering.

Spent his whole adult life, on and off the field, provoking situations that inevitably result in taking shots to the head, then blames RL, because its the only thing he's got a chance of making money from.

All skint.

One of the players is Jason Roach was up until very recently still playing amatuer rugby and playing in any ex players game he could, couldn't have been that bothered then.

The bloke is a cap end on the scrounge