{"id":29689,"date":"2017-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/mark-robinson-and-stephen-rowe-clash-over-big-afl-problem\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:00:00","slug":"mark-robinson-and-stephen-rowe-clash-over-big-afl-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mark-robinson-and-stephen-rowe-clash-over-big-afl-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Robinson and Stephen Rowe clash over big AFL problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mark Robinson and Stephen Rowe have clashed on air over what to do about dangerous tackling and the incidence of concussion in the AFL.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like the fact that we can still play a sport in 2017 when a guy can be thrown to the ground and knocked out or severely concussed,\u201d Robbo told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all say that\u2019s just part of the game. I think we\u2019ve given up\u2026 we can\u2019t do that, we can\u2019t have people getting concussed in a tackle &#8212; it\u2019s just not on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/322238295&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>But Rowey was wary about messing with the fabric of the game:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s going to be football collisions, football accidents, football injuries &#8212; since Adam was a boy\u2026 why are we all of a sudden now so damn, bloody sensitive about it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>But Robbo wasn\u2019t backing down:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s hundred of millions of dollars getting paid out in American football for people who have suffered concussion throughout their career. People who have these concussions some of them also develop depression and then people commit suicide\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would hate to think that people get a lot of concussions and get depression and AFL layers commit suicide and then people say, you know, what we probably should have stepped in when people were dangerously tackling and throwing people headfirst into the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/club-pulls-coach-into-line-following-embarrassing-comments\"><strong>CLUB PULLS COACH INTO LINE AFTER \u201cEMBARRASSING\u201d COMMENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/chairman-s-stunning-rebuke-of-adelaide-united-player\"><strong>CHAIRMAN\u2019S STUNNING REBUKE OF ADELAIDE UNITED STAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Robinson and Stephen Rowe have clashed on air over what to do about dangerous tackling and the incidence of concussion in the AFL. \u201cI don\u2019t like the fact that we can still play a sport in 2017 when a guy can be thrown to the ground and knocked out or severely concussed,\u201d Robbo told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14680,"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":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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