Dr Colin Doherty

With Aviva Insurance.

Morning, Clare.

Yes, I mean, this is pretty, I mean, in my mind, it's pretty uncontroversial now.

And most people have heard that term.

It stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is just a long word to suggest dementia that's associated with a career, long term career of repetitive head injury.

And it's not just athletes.

It does affect other groups like ex-military, etc.

But obviously, athletes are in the crosshairs here.

Yeah, I feel that I've been banging this drum for a decade.

I've been saying this in less temperate language, less intemperate language.

I kind of felt my frustration came through in the article.

I was glad they didn't edit it out.

I really do feel that we need to make a change here.

And like anybody who enjoys the sport, it just needs to be a safer game.

And I'm not saying I have all the answers to making it safer.

I'm calling for a sport-wide, government-wide response.

to come together and decide how do we profile risk, how do we decide how to reduce the dose of blows to the head and make the game safer.

That's it.

It's not a question of crossing any Rubicon.

To my mind, that happened a decade ago.