Not that much an issue I'm guessing between either have ACC fund everything if injury occurred in NZ, verus getting a NZ$25,000 insurance payout if the injury happened in Aus.
I imagine $25K would go a long way to covering the costs of an ACL op, with an excellent knee specialist surgeon in NZ.
The issue here is that Samba is delaying her surgery until she has raised the $NZ135K to have the op (and post op recovery) in Qatar. As the article says the longer she waits, the more likely she is to miss a chunk of the next ALW season.
It's typically a 9 month recovery? The ALW starts November each year?
I mean it's her body, and if she had a great result last time in Qatar with her first ACL fair enough she wants to do her 2nd op there. But the Nix as her employer could rightly start to get a bit pissed off, if it drags on much longer. Esp when sportspeople have ACL ops all the time in NZ all the time which are successful.
She's on a 2 year deal, which is bit uncommon in the ALW??
So the NZ could rightly say 'we have shown a 2 year investment/commitment, be nice to have that reciprocated'
I imagine $25K would go a long way to covering the costs of an ACL op, with an excellent knee specialist surgeon in NZ.
The issue here is that Samba is delaying her surgery until she has raised the $NZ135K to have the op (and post op recovery) in Qatar. As the article says the longer she waits, the more likely she is to miss a chunk of the next ALW season.
It's typically a 9 month recovery? The ALW starts November each year?
I mean it's her body, and if she had a great result last time in Qatar with her first ACL fair enough she wants to do her 2nd op there. But the Nix as her employer could rightly start to get a bit pissed off, if it drags on much longer. Esp when sportspeople have ACL ops all the time in NZ all the time which are successful.
She's on a 2 year deal, which is bit uncommon in the ALW??
So the NZ could rightly say 'we have shown a 2 year investment/commitment, be nice to have that reciprocated'