You make a very good point. Linked to Purtell's heart attack or not, RL is an intensive game played in the summer months. It's been bloody hot this last week and it would make sense that when conditions are as they have been the game is played in quarters rather than halves. Yes, this might break the flow of the game a little, but that's a small price to pay to not see a player collapse on the field isn't it?

I don't have any problem with drinks breaks if the powers-that-be think they are warranted, it's the suggestion that lack of breaks here did or may have caused Adrian Purtell's heart attack that I think is out of order. Especially when it's been specifically reported that what caused it was a blockage in an artery.

The question of drinks breaks should not be linked to Purtell's illness, and that's what's OT, but if you think it's fair to imply that the RFL did or may have caused it by not allowing drinks breaks, then carry on.

Agreed. Hope Adrian recovers well.

Yeah, but that's not what he said. He never implied the RFL were at fault, just that it would have been more sensible to have drink breaks for the players



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All the best to purtell on a full recovery

had 1 myself 4yrs ago hope he has a good recovery and back 2 the greatest game

Wishing Adrian Purtell a speedy recovery. I hope he is able to grace our great sport once again.

Although not as serious as the Muamba incident, the potential was obviously there and as such I hope the reaction from the RL fraternity is as good as the support and reaction showed in fussball.

All the best to the lad and hope its a speedy recovery.

No, and neither do you. He used the common idiom "I'm not saying xxxx ... BUT"; we're all familiar with it, you are, and it implied that there may well have been a link. (He wasn't saying there definitely [iwas[/i... BUT"icon_wink.gif.

Otherwise, he's randomly thrown drinks intervals in even though he thinks it's got nothing to do with the thread. And on the basis that it clearly hasn't, that's my last response on this point.

Its clearly hard to say sorry, I took it the wrong way and over reacted.

Yeah, luckily it isnt SO FAR as bad as Fabrice Muamba. But still we should pray for him and his family and hope he gets well soon.

I echo all previous comments

It certainly appears that way doesn't it.

My thoughts are with Adrian Purtell and his family and here's hoping for a speedy recovery.

Shaggoth's post clearly asks posters to refrain from having a go at each other. As a result I've deleted subsequent messages that seemed to miss the point.

It's quite simple. Stay on topic.

Best wishes to him, hope he has a speedy recovery.

You're totally and utterly wrong.

Wising Adrian all the best for a full recovery.

About what you think? You wrote what you wrote, and you now understand what your post implied. I am happy to accept that you didn't intend to, and that you don't, in fact, link the lack of a drinks break with what happened to Purtell. Let's leave it at that.

Is there any more news?

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He has been discharged from LGI Hospital and is now resting up at home. He will have a heart scan in 4 weeks time and will know more about the possibility of playing again after this. He looked pretty shook up when I spoke to him though.

His mum, dad and sister are here looking after him, and Joel Monaghan and Trent Waterhouse have just gone round for a coffee.

Thats the latest...

RUGBY LEAGUE
Bradford coach Mick Potter believes dehydration may have been partly to blame for Adrian Purtell's heart attack. Potter had concerns that his players received an inadequate water supply, saying: "I wasn't happy. I think they needed more water. I think the other team showed the way. They just rested on the ground and waited for some people to come out to get water to them. I think all the officials were hydrated up on the sideline enough. The people out there performing in those conditions, I don't think were getting enough."

This is from the BBC website.

How so? What I took umbrage at was the drinks break point, specifically the link implied, not the issue of dehydration. But I'll make my main reply on this in the separate drinks thread, where it belongs, this is the Purtell thread and IMHO (for what that may be worth) it deserves to stay that way.

Well Potter can believe dehydration may have played a part but he's no doctor.

Dear God man, let it go FFS.

No. It's a valid and important discussion. But this ain't the thread for it.

Aye, perhaps discussion over the whole drinks/dehydration issue shoule go on the drinks breaks thread.

Ta