The Breakdown | Player concerns over wellbeing must be heeded by coaches and officials

Jamie Cudmore is taking his former club to court over concussions, but longer seasons will only deepen the problemKearnan Myall’s stark account this week of the loneliness of the modern-day rugby player showed a disconnect at the top of the game touched on recently by Jamie Cudmore, the former Clermont Auvergne second-row who is taking the club to court for allegedly failing to protect him from serious injury in 2015 after a series of concussions.Myall, who experienced depression as the speed of the sport’s treadmill regularly increased, pointed out that many of the coaches at club and country…