ALEX MCKINNON HAS A RIGHT TO CLAIM COMPO BUT NOT TO SUE MELBOURNE STORM'S JORDAN MCLEAN

Alex McKinnon deserves a lot of empathy, compassion and respect. To date, following that split second tragedy on the football field in 2014, which left him paralysed for life, McKinnon has shown great fight, tenacity and character to rebuild his life to the extent he has in only two years. 

At least in the public eye until now, despite the life long implications of his catastrophic spinal chord injury, he has only exhibited a graceful and philosophical attitude towards his predicament, as set in stone as it appears.

Which is why it comes as a shock that he would now be engaging in retributory legal action to sue the NRL and Melbourne Storm player Jordan McLean, for what is bound to be a huge sum of money. 

The NRL I'm sure is cashed up enough to compensate McKinnon out of court and absorb a multimillion dollar damages claim by McKinnon, but spare a thought for Jordan McLean. Fact is, it was a split second tragedy, it wasn't premeditated and TV footage of the fateful tackle proves that McKinnon at least partly contributed to the tackle going woefully wrong.

What occured cannot be compared, as McKinnon has done so previously, to an act of negligent driving or driving in any illegal manner which causes somebody to sustain a spinal injury. Understandably McKinnon is emotional and perhaps feels a sense of anger but sueing McLean is not fair play on his part.