{"id":13147,"date":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/a-group-of-ex-players-are-about-to-sue-the-afl\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"a-group-of-ex-players-are-about-to-sue-the-afl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/a-group-of-ex-players-are-about-to-sue-the-afl\/","title":{"rendered":"A Group Of Ex-Players Are About To Sue The AFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Essendon premiership player John Barnes will lead a concussion damages action against the AFL.<\/h3>\n<p>Barnes is one of half a dozen former AFL players who are exploring legal options relating to brain problems they say are linked to concussions received while playing, reports News Ltd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/john-barnes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barnes was diagnosed with epilepsy five years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cIt\u2019s turned my life upside down&#8230; I\u2019m not the same bloke I used to be,\u201d he told the&nbsp;<em>Herald Sun<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI know things are changing in my mind and I want answers.\u201d\u200b<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He told the paper about his first seizure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI passed out and froth was coming out of my mouth\u200b,\u201d he said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt was like I\u2019d gone five rounds with Mike Tyson &#8212; it absolutely knocked the guts out of me.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cEight weeks later, I had another one in the supermarket. I was paying for my groceries and just passed out on the floor. I smashed my elbow and got stitches in that. The paramedics were called and I came to in the ambulance.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt takes about 10 to 15 minutes for the brain to recalculate.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018I\u2019m not the same bloke I used to be\u2019 &#8211; John Barnes to spearhead concussion action against AFL, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heraldsunmick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@heraldsunmick<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W7yKB26Lws\">https:\/\/t.co\/W7yKB26Lws<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uo3LnbQSym\">pic.twitter.com\/Uo3LnbQSym<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SuperFooty (AFL) (@superfooty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/superfooty\/status\/933253035093983232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon premiership player John Barnes will lead a concussion damages action against the AFL. Barnes is one of half a dozen former AFL players who are exploring legal options relating to brain problems they say are linked to concussions received while playing, reports News Ltd. Barnes was diagnosed with epilepsy five years ago. \u201cIt\u2019s turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Group Of Ex-Players Are About To Sue The AFL - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/a-group-of-ex-players-are-about-to-sue-the-afl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Group Of Ex-Players Are About To Sue The AFL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Essendon premiership player John Barnes will lead a concussion damages action against the AFL. 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