{"id":13622,"date":"2025-07-22T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13622\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:44:21","slug":"victor-radley-not-considering-retirement-despite-run-of-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13622\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Radley not considering retirement despite run of concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe specialists I\u2019ve seen, 100 per cent, I\u2019m not even near retiring. Chris Levi has been really good and really positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour brain is like a muscle, and you need to make sure you\u2019re working it and building that tolerance, so I don\u2019t get a little knock and it gives me a daze.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victor\u00a0Radley comes from the field against the Brisbane Broncos\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1ac803d06838359fda7055bd68c31f87ef4c31eb.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victor\u00a0Radley comes from the field against the Brisbane BroncosCredit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are games you play where you follow a ball, and you have to remember where they move. There is also VOMS training, which I do around training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been advised to do [the exercises] morning and night. The biggest thing I\u2019ve learned after seeing all the specialists is to keep working your brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radley has started wearing headgear in recent weeks, which does little to prevent concussions but \u201cat this point, any little thing that might help, I\u2019ll do it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old wants to help the Roosters make a charge for the finals before getting the call-up to play for England in the Ashes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Radley has begun wearing headgear during matches.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1798ec117db8178f128b85de1c78679b79ea8817.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Radley has begun wearing headgear during matches.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to go over there and play against Australia \u2013 it\u2019s something I\u2019ve earmarked since [the Ashes] was announced,\u201d Radley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, I\u2019m just thinking about the Roosters, being fit, playing my best footy, and hopefully that takes care of itself and [England coach] Shaun [Wane] picks me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>The shoulder injury he aggravated against Cronulla last weekend has been an ongoing issue, but there will be no need for surgery, nor painkillers. He took no part in Monday\u2019s main training session and will benefit from the extra time off against the Storm at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne will be without Nelson Asofa-Solomona due to suspension, while Cameron Munster will skip the game to attend his father\u2019s funeral in Rockhampton on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an ongoing issue I\u2019ve had for years, but I copped a knock the other night when I was running the ball. I got hit hard, and re-aggravated it,\u201d Radley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI normally strap my shoulders tightly, I\u2019ve been really conscious of my right one this year. This [injury] is my left. I\u2019ll run the same strapping program on the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beerfootyfood.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Footy Food Festival<\/a> will be held at Henson Park on Saturday. For the record, Victor Radley\u2019s beer of choice is Carlton Dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe specialists I\u2019ve seen, 100 per cent, I\u2019m not even near retiring. Chris Levi has been really good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}