NRL players are being challenged to process the avalanche of rule changes coming out of Rugby League Central in recent years.

There have been too many new “rule interpretations” – or “policy tweaks”, as the NRL prefers to describe rule changes – for players to comprehend in the high-pressure environment of a game. It is doubly hard for those whose brain circuitry operates without a kill switch. There are times when confrontations cause some players to bypass the brain completely, the impulses travelling directly from........

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