Legal fees totaling 2.8 million pounds are now a necessary condition for former rugby players to continue their complaints against World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union, and the Welsh Rugby Union. These fees are primarily due by the end of October. The case involves former rugby union and rugby league players who claim that repeated head impacts have led to neurological disorders. They allege that the governing bodies did not provide adequate protection, although these organizations dispute the claims. The 2.8 million pounds refers to legal fees owed to the defendants, not damages to be paid to the players or a sum to be paid if the plaintiffs win the case. Most of these fees must be paid by the end of October for the complaints to continue in their current form. A key moment in the case occurred in August when the High Court temporarily excluded hundreds of complaints due to a lack of neurological examination documents provided to the defendants. The legal firm Rylands Garth was replaced by KP Law, and the judge allowed the affected claims to continue under certain conditions. The August decision affected 377 rugby union players and 153 rugby league players due to these document shortages. The court considered that the responsibility to provide these documents fell to the complainants and took into account the change of legal representation and the consequences of a definitive exclusion. The deficiencies in the medical records must be corrected for the complaints to proceed. The new deadline makes these conditions clear. Medical records must be completed, and the fees must be paid within a very short time. The judge asked the firm if it could fulfill its obligations while the same representatives were involved in a collective procedure on football. The firm indicated that it would no longer pursue this football case. The dispute is supported by Asertis, a financier specializing in legal proceedings. The company has already covered the legal fees of the complainants and the neurological examinations, covering six years of proceedings. However, the financing of the 2.8 million pounds remains uncertain. Funding the procedures of a group does not mean paying any amount ordered by the court to the other party. No information indicates that the bill is paid or that it falls to an identified party. The distribution of the sum between the groups of complainants also does not emerge from the published elements. The case has not yet been decided on its merits. The August decision allowed threatened complaints to continue, subject to compliance with procedural requirements. The financial deadline and the submission of documents are conditions for proceeding. They do not constitute an admission of fault by the entities or the medical causality invoked by the players. The players have not definitively lost their case, as the court has accepted to re-examine their situation. However, the authorization to proceed does not mean that the accusations are validated. Some complaints risk being excluded as long as the conditions are not met, even before the examination of the medical issues. The next step depends on the regularization of the neurological records and the payment of the fees. Their resolution could allow moving to the next stage, while their failure would again reduce the number of active complaints.