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Eliesa Katoa
🇳🇿 🇹🇴
Second Row, Active Debut: 2020-03-14
- Age
193 Height (cm)
110 Weight (kg)
241
Eliesa Katoa
🇳🇿 🇹🇴
Second Row, Active Debut: 2020-03-14
- Age
193 Height (cm)
110 Weight (kg)

Player Eliesa Katoa

Full Name
Eliesa Katoa
Date of Birth
Jan 3, 2000
Birth Location
Hihifo, Niuatoputapu, Tonga
Nationality
  1. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
  2. 🇹🇴 Tonga
Height (cm)
193 cm
Weight (kg)
110 kg
Position/s
  1. Second Row
Warrior #
241
NRL Debut Date
Mar 14, 2020
NRL Debut Details
2020, Round 1, New Zealand Warriors vs Newcastle Knights
Warriors Debut Date
Mar 14, 2020
Warriors Debut Details
2020, Round 1, Newcastle Knights
Warriors Years Active
  1. 2020
  2. 2021
  3. 2022
College/s
Tamaki College
Signed To
Melbourne Storm
Current Club
Melbourne Storm
Status
Active
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliesa_Katoa
Rugby League Project
https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/eliesa-katoa/summary.html
Overview Gallery Discussion
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Multiple concussive incidents in series is the absolute worst thing that can happen to your brain outside of direct trauma. Players should be removed after even minimal head contact but it won’t happen.

Both the NRL and NFLs protocols are woefully inadequate but we all turn a blind eye to the sports we love.
 

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Ferdie said:
Awful situation for Eli. I hope he makes a full recovery.

I can't help but feel something like this was going to be an inevitable outcome.
Teams are letting players play on way too often, even when they've been clearly dazed.
How often do you see a stop in play while the team doctor/physio (whoever) checks the guy on the field, decides he's ok, and then about 3 tackles later, play stops again once the independent ref has taken another look and decides he needs to be checked.
I know this is a big statement, but it happens too often to be a coincidence, and I'm not sure those on the payroll of the teams have the best interests of the players.
It also gives the coach and club an easy out, because "the doctor assessed him, and said he was fine".
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I think its reasonable (statistically speaking) to assume it came from one impact. Obviously we don't want someone running around with a brain bleed though. A big question is are the concussion test thoroughly exploring this also? If not, they clearly need to be.
 
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Really.
I’d hardly put it in the John Hopoate v Keith Galloway incident which should have been a much longer ban than the 17 weeks he received.
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Take a look as he deliberately leaps off the ground and leads with the shoulder into Eli s head.

It's not a contest here as to what's the worst. They're all shit actions and all deliberate
 
The night before, in the ashes test, Walsh arrives late into a kick contest leaps wildly and gets the england player (Herbie?) shoulder to head. Not nearly the same impact as Katoa, but he got him.

After much time wasting with the TMO, Atkins eventually bins him, didn't really matter to the game, England wouldn't have scored against 9 players the way they were going.

Anyway - the whole time the pommy commentators would not shut up about how terrible this decision is, how's its ruining the game, how they need to play on and get over it, didn't even hurt him etc, etc.

14 hours later a player nearly dies. These two things are absolutely related, got zero tolerance for the games gone soft crowd after this, its so bad and any coach, ref, official, doctor, player who minimises head contact, should get hauled over the coals going forward, and they should tinker with the rules to reward ye olde legs tackle and make the players practice it (yes, lots of player including our own Wayde Egan end up with more knocks from putting their head in the wrong place, but it's mostly bad technique after 20 years of upright gang tackling).

People will get used to it, we got used to no more SBW style KO shoulder charges, which have also killed people.

Everyone shits on union being red card happy but at least they have some deterrents.

Its just entertainment.
 
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Fufu said:
They were both warming up contesting a catch on a kick? You need to jump to catch. To call out Hopoate is ridiculous.
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I've watched it numerous times. Katoa has caught the ball and is back on the ground pretty much before hopoate jumps. There's nothing suggesting any kind of catch, it's shoulder first.

It's reckless.
 
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