We now know 185 former professional and semi-professional rugby players are suing World Rugby, the Welsh Rugby Union and the Rugby Football Union over permanent injuries caused by brain damage in what is set to become a landmark case in the sport.
We also know around 50 of them are former Welsh professional players.
Just as the National Football League, the United States' elite American Football league, had their own day of reckoning in the past decade, rugby union is now heading down a similar path as legal action involving a group of rugby players diagnosed with early-onset dementia and other irreversible neurological impairments is now destined for the courts.
