gangad Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Lance Hohaia has announced his immediate retirement from Rugby and will no longer Play for Saints I wonder what has been going on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 'Lance has been a valued and integral member of the squad for the last three and a half years and we thank him for his service. 'We wish him and his family well in their life after rugby league with St Helens. 'St Helens will make no further comment on this matter.' Very sudden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky D Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Has he not Jeff. I underated him four years ago and couldn't understand why or how Saints gave him a four year contract. Apart from a couple of games he has been next to useless. Maybe some one has found him out or his conscience mortally has pricked him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 St Helens half-back Lance Hohaia says he is retiring from rugby league because of "recurrent post-match concussion-type symptoms". http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/32525472 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenbanker Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I used to get post match recurrent symptoms myself after watching Francis Meli in all of those GF defeats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 You mean when he kept fumbling the ball when it was passed to him.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw78 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I think a claim has gone in. A personal injury claim at the end of the career is a nice little pension. Saints and the rl are being very quiet. He wasnt even mentioned on friday. Fishy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 ALL British RL players, even down to junior amateur level, are required to be insured, usually via a group or team insurance. Unless Saints have been paying an absolute fortune for individual's remiums, I doubt that he'll get anything like a pension out of it. More likely a lump-sum of a few thousand quid ...now if he'd been a soccer-player.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw78 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 The game is changing, they are very sensititve about concussion lately and have put new control measures in place, this suggests there is a problem and the rl have recognised they havent sufficiently met their duty of care on that specific injury. Now a player has retired and is alegidly blaming that. I might be putting 2 and 2 together and making 10 but I know a little about h&s law and I think these factors means there's liability and a claim would be upheld. The public liability Insurance you mention is for exactly this scenario and must cover a minimumof £5 million. all my opinions are my own and based on nothing but speculation Also I'm not criticising. If theres an injury caused by your work you should absolutely be compensated. My worry is rl will be american football or tick n pass shortly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 All teams have to have public liability insurance PLUS players' insurance. The latter covers incapacity through injury and also death. The amount of coverage for each player is dependent on both claim history and, of course, premium paid. The public liability insurance is to protect members of the public, ie non-players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artyfarty Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 No one has actually said as much,but is there any suggestion that the concusion has anything to do with him being punched by,I think Ben Flowers(apologies to Mr.Flowers if I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky D Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 It was the first thing that entered my mind artyfarty and let's face it, he's never been the same since. He's only started about six games since that incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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