Farah "Smith isn't better than me"

[Porthoz]

No doubt about the players having a laugh at Farah's expense. I can picture them snickering at the article on the paper...

The other paragraph about the refs seething doesn't surprise me either. Sandow getting away with calling a ref corrupt was a pretty poor message sent by the NRL...

 

[Harry Sack]

The answer is simple. Smith will be an immortal, Farah will not.

 

[Anonymous person]

The other paragraph about the refs seething doesn't surprise me either. Sandow getting away with calling a ref corrupt was a pretty poor message sent by the NRL...

Can you blame him though? I certainly can't after some of the blatantly incorrect outcome-affecting decisions that have been made along with the fact that 12 match day officials have been fired or stood down for betting on matches

Melbourne Storm's Slade Griffin and Hymel Hunt suspended for betting on NRL games

The NRL has also fired three casual game-day officials and suspended nine other officials for the rest of the season for betting on matches.


Doyle said the league had also issued 12 “first and final” warnings to players, staff and officials who had laid “small, isolated” bets of $5 or less on rugby league matches.


The names of the terminated officials and the people who received warnings were not released by the NRL.

I can't believe how little has been made about the fact that match officials have been caught betting on games! These are the people who can directly cause a team to win or lose a game, and they were betting on matches!

 

[broncos4life]

Can you blame him though? I certainly can't after some of the blatantly incorrect outcome-affecting decisions that have been made along with the fact that 12 match day officials have been fired or stood down for betting on matches

Melbourne Storm's Slade Griffin and Hymel Hunt suspended for betting on NRL games



I can't believe how little has been made about the fact that match officials have been caught betting on games! These are the people who can directly cause a team to win or lose a game, and they were betting on matches!

I took match day officials to not mean referees

 

[Anonymous person]

What else can they be? To me, officials would be touchies/refs. I hope I'm wrong, but the fact that they won't release any names is very suspicious.

 

[Kimlo]

It can also be things like interchange officials

 

[broncos4life]

What else can they be? To me, officials would be touchies/refs. I hope I'm wrong, but the fact that they won't release any names is very suspicious.

Match day officials can be anyone involves on match day. Crowd control, people that hand out the jerseys, all that kind of shit.

 

[Porthoz]

But as AP says, the fact the NRL doesn't release their names is a worry and certainly doesn't help transparency!

 

[Morkel]

But as AP says, the fact the NRL doesn't release their names is a worry and certainly doesn't help transparency!

What? Greenberg hiding shit to protect the ass of his charge? Unheard of.

 

[Kimlo]

But as AP says, the fact the NRL doesn't release their names is a worry and certainly doesn't help transparency!

If it's truly for bets of $5 or less I don't have a problem with it, to me that's just a stupid mistake rather than an intention to match fix.

 

[Je$ter]

Can you please post the text from the link in QUOTE tags and not just the link?



Article is from the 9th July and is just some muppets' opinion on what he thinks he may have heard from someone. No quotes at all from anyone.

Yeah I'm sure his team mates are going to come out publicly and be like "Yeah, how about Robbie thinking his better than Cam Smith? What a wanker!"

NRL Lurker usually has his finger pretty close to the pulse.

 

[Morkel]

If it's truly for bets of $5 or less I don't have a problem with it, to me that's just a stupid mistake rather than an intention to match fix.

Why were the officials determined to bet on an NRL match? Surely if it's a "fun" thing then they'd stick to something other than NRL. The worry is that there are fixes on at a higher level, word filters through the ranks and some throw a small punt to see if it's legit.