The National Rugby League altered its rules to give Jai Arrow special dispensation. The rule update follows his forced retirement from rugby league owing to motor neurone disease. This special dispensation enables Arrow to reach 100 games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Emotional Rabbitohs players learned of the update. He can now achieve a milestone.
Separately, a man given a diagnosis of MND 29 years ago stays ill but alive. In another development, a UK patient aged 36 learned he has 10 years to live following his diagnosis.