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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Call for NZ Rugby to acknowledge former All Black's life-changing disease
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:10:24
	Publish Date:		2025-09-09 05:26:00
	Description:		The wife of a former All Black and NZ Māori player, Tutekawaka Wyllie, who is suffering from a brain disease caused by the game has said it is hurtful that they have never heard from NZ Rugby, offering the organisation to "come and feed him off a teaspoon if they like." Margaret Wyllie fought for years to get ACC to accept her husband has chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, after suffering numerous head knocks playing top level rugby during the 1970s and 80s. Margaret Wyllie believes NZ Rugby has failed to acknowledge Tu's condition and spoke to Lisa Owen.
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