Betting Syndicate
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Bucking Beads
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I can see some heads rolling big time over this. I think the roosters will be looked at also
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mrslong
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I heard the rumour mill last year going absolute rank that the Roosters betting scandal was going to break and heads will roll etc etc, something to do with the brothel thing. Never happenned, the powers that be chickened out (like the pun)Bucking Beads said:
Beachy said:
I'm not saying that, but I think it's time the NRL bans clubs from being sponsored by betting agencies, and forbids third party sponsorship arrangements with individual players and betting agencies (surely the latter is the case already).
mrslong
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What Coxy said, 100%.
I love a bet as much as the next person, but it's obvious the betting agencies are getting too much control over the product.
Another thing I find interesting is that I think it might mess with players heads. I've seen a certain renowned first try scorer bomb certain tries by not passing the ball over the past season - and I am NOT implying in any way that he is involved in match fixing, but I do wonder whether all the pressure to be the first try scorer get's in the heads of these guys. Especially when they know their brother, mother, father has $50 on em every week to score first? (Of course he could just be a greedy try pig)
I love a bet as much as the next person, but it's obvious the betting agencies are getting too much control over the product.
Another thing I find interesting is that I think it might mess with players heads. I've seen a certain renowned first try scorer bomb certain tries by not passing the ball over the past season - and I am NOT implying in any way that he is involved in match fixing, but I do wonder whether all the pressure to be the first try scorer get's in the heads of these guys. Especially when they know their brother, mother, father has $50 on em every week to score first? (Of course he could just be a greedy try pig)
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Ghibli said:
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I think that once these investigations are through, if any players are implicated, the NRL must come down hard on them and de-register them. Regardless of their profile. This is the only way to discourage other players with a dishonest streak from taking the risk.
Unfortunately (if the current rumours are indeed true) I can see there being some scapegoats in this scandal while others may come out with clean hands.
Unfortunately (if the current rumours are indeed true) I can see there being some scapegoats in this scandal while others may come out with clean hands.
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Coxy said:
Well the NRL itself will also need to say no to any form of sponsorship from betting agencies as well if they are going to stop teams from it.
But we all know that nothing short of a Federal Law banning it (ala the ban on cigarette companies sponsoring sport) will see this happen. Although banning sponsorship by betting agencies won't stop these issues in any case. The only thing that might stop it (as mrs long already said) is to ban "exotic" (weird term, but anyway) bets like FTS, LTS, First to Score, How they Will Score etc etc etc etc. It is a lot easier to "fix" or "cheat" small parts of the game like this than it is to "fix" an entire match. But again - stopping these kinds of bets will also never happen, or just send them underground.
