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The Fitz Files

Obviously concussed: Dale Copley leaves the field during the match against the Broncos.

The attitude to concussion is still in the dark ages

You had to see it to believe it. A minute before half-time in the Roosters vs Broncos game Dale Copley goes into a tackle, gets his head in the way of an inadvertently flying knee, and falls to the ground like a sack of spuds.

'Why do you write all that s--t about me?': Tomic

Tomic v FitzSimons

Yes, I had seen the yellow Ferrari outside the Palazzao Versace hotel last Saturday arvo, but still, nothing twigged, and I had no clue that it was the first crack of lightning on the horizon for what looked like a mid-level storm approaching.

Eels need cleanout from top to bottom

Trouble on and off the field: Anthony Watmough, Kieran Foran and Semi Radradra.

Tell me. In the history of the world, has any football team ever, begun the season with such high hopes only for so many things go to hell in a hand-cart that soon need a freaking convoy of hand-carts to carry them all?