Tigers 'appalled' at criticisms of club doctors

Richmond CEO Brendon Gale says the nine is "appalled astatine the suggestion" made successful tribunal astir however aesculapian unit acted towards erstwhile Tiger Shane Tuck.

Tuck, who took his ain beingness past year, was deemed to person had a terrible lawsuit of degenerative encephalon illness CTE pursuing an autopsy, which was revealed earlier this twelvemonth by the Australian Sports Brain Bank.

CTE is simply a encephalon information associated with repeated concussions.

The Age reports that astatine a proceeding astatine the Victorian Coroners Court today, Greg Griffin, the lawyer of Tuck's widow, Katherine Tuck, urged Coroner John Cain to look into however the erstwhile Richmond subordinate was looked aft during his 173-game vocation betwixt 2004 and 2013.

Tuck besides had a little boxing stint pursuing his AFL career.

Shane Tuck successful enactment for Richmond during a 2012 lucifer against Collingwood astatine the MCG. (Getty)

"We would inquire your honour successful the people of the coronial probe to possibly look astatine the sins of the past to spot however they can't beryllium repeated," Mr Griffin said.

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"For the widow and many, galore AFL footballers who are watching this result with large involvement … it is imperative for the coronial probe to absorption connected what really did hap astatine the Richmond Football Club and successful different AFL clubs during that nine-year play [when Tuck played AFL]."

In effect to Mr Griffin, the coroner said that helium was "far much funny successful what the existent authorities of play is successful narration to the absorption of concussion and caput knocks successful the AFL and boxing".

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The Richmond CEO released a connection contiguous successful defence of his club's aesculapian staff.

"We consciousness compelled to support the highly nonrecreational aesculapian unit that managed Shane Tuck passim his vocation successful the aftermath of the inflammatory allegations made astatine a coronial probe today," Gale said.

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"We are appalled astatine the proposition our aesculapian unit acted successful a negligent oregon unethical way. We basal down those aesculapian unit who acted to the highest nonrecreational standards, and successful the champion interests of Shane during his career."

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