Match Fixing Allegations

[Tunza's Chin]

edit: Still making a reference to a player there

 

[Super Freak]

Err..the common team is Manly !

I don't think I would have known that if you did not tell me.

Thank you!

 

[Unbreakable]

Eddie Hayson embroiled in NRL match-fixing investigation

Date
June 2, 2016 - 2:24PM

Kate McClymont
Senior Reporter

EXCLUSIVE

Controversial gambler and former brothel owner Eddie Hayson is embroiled in a NSW police investigation into allegations of match-fixing in two NRL games last year.

One of the matches being investigated is a 2015 match between South Sydney Rabbitohs and Manly Sea Eagles.

The week before the match, Mr Hayson is alleged to have collected $500,000 in cash to bet on the match. The bet involved Souths winning by more than eight points.

A jockey, on the instructions of Mr Hayson, is also understood to have wagered $120,000 on the same outcome with a bookmaker. Mr Hayson later instructed the jockey to put another $100,000 on but the bookmaker refused the second wager.

"The reason it [the betting] didn't come under suspicion was because the Rabbits were favourites. They were giving away seven and a half points. So they had to win by eight points or more which they did win," said a source who declined a request by Mr Hayson to contribute to the scheme.

He said Mr Hayson told him six players were involved. "Eddie did tell me there were six players and he had to give 50 large [$50,000] to each one," said the source.

A statement from NSW police said: "The Organised Crime Squad is in the early stages of examining information to alleged match fixing in the NRL. No further comment is appropriate at this stage."

The round 16 game between South Sydney and Manly took place on Friday June 26 at ANZ Stadium in Sydney.


Souths led Manly 6-4 at half-time. The Rabbitohs were coming off a bye, having lost 34-6 to Wests Tigers in their previous game. Manly were at the bottom of the ladder but had just beaten the Tigers 30-20. Betting agencies contacted by Fairfax Media said that there was no suspicious betting activity on that match.

Separately, Mr Hayson, who has been banned from betting at the TAB, has angrily denied widespread rumours he was behind beleaguered Parramatta Eels captain Kieran Foran's recently revealed $75,000 gambling spree.

According to the TAB's terms and conditions, only the account holder is allowed to use the account to bet.

Sources have confirmed Mr Hayson met Foran in Brisbane on May 20, the day after Foran's TAB account was allegedly used for a massive betting spree. According to News Corp $75,000 was lost from his betting account. "Nobody knows who made the bets on dogs and horses but the money has gone all the same," the Daily Telegraph reported.

The frenzied betting included wages on greyhounds at Dapto, Albion Park and Sandown. This was followed by betting on South African horse races.

Fairfax Media has been informed Mr Hayson and Foran were seen meeting at the Manly team hotel as the Sea Eagles were in Brisbane to play the Broncos.

Foran, who remains close to some of the Manly players despite his switch to the Eels this season, was in Queensland receiving treatment for personal issues at a rehabilitation facility.

The Kiwi international, who is out for the season due to a shoulder injury, is understood to have instructed lawyers to start proceedings against the TAB for a breach of privacy.

Earlier this year Fairfax Media revealed Mr Hayson, already banned for life from the Star Casino, was banned from betting with the TAB.

In February the TAB instructed staff members to "no longer serve Edward (Eddie) Hayson ... due to suspicious ... activity".

"Please ensure your staff familiarise themselves with his face," said the missive.

"Am I addicted? Well, it has been a problem over the years," Mr Hayson has previously told Fairfax Media while admitting he once placed a $1 million bet on a State of Origin game. In 2014, Mr Hayson lost control of his high-class brothel Stiletto and declared himself insolvent with debts of $52 million.

In 2006 Mr Hayson's friendship with Newcastle Knights star Andrew Johns brought a storm of publicity about Mr Hayson using inside information to win an estimated $2 million on a betting plunge.

Along with big-time punter Steve Fletcher, Mr Hayson wagered a fortune on the lowly placed New Zealand Warriors to beat the competition frontrunners Newcastle. Bookies were so confident of a Knights win they gave the Warriors a 16.5-point start.

Unbeknown to the public, and to the bookmakers, Johns had injured his neck at a weights session on the Thursday night before the Sunday game. Hayson, who owned racehorses with Johns and his brother Matthew, denied receiving inside information about Andrew Johns' neck injury. A subsequent NRL investigation found nothing amiss.

The other match the police are understood to be investigating involves information received from an organised crime figure that match-fixing allegedly took place in a round 24 clash in 2015 between Manly and Parramatta, which the Eels won 20-16.

Comments are being sought from Mr Hayson and Foran.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/p...02-gp9ruz.html

 

[Unbreakable]

Greenberg just said that anyone found to be involved in match-fixing in any way shape or form will be banned from the NRL for life, with no exceptions.

This could get nasty.

 

[Porthoz]

Weidler just confirmed that it's a player at the centre of the drama.

Someone from the 2015 Sea Eagles with gambling problems...

Stopped reading there...

 

[Socnorb]

Err..the common team is Manly !

Yes. you also don't match fix to win games.

 

[Kaz]

It's now 6 players.


GAMBLING identity Eddie Hayson has been linked to a police probe into alleged match fixing that has rocked the NRL.


Fairfax media reports Hayson is alleged to have claimed he paid six NRL players $50,000 each to fix a round 16 game between Manly and South Sydney last year.

He allegedly collected $500,000 in cash to bet on the match and the bet involved Souths winning by more than eight points, Fairfax reported.

Hayson is also alleged to have instructed an unnamed jockey to make separate bets of $120,000 and $100,000 on that outcome. South Sydney won the match 20-8.


NRL match fixing: Players offered bribes - report

 

[Nashy]

Australia doesn't have a gambling problem.

 

[Mr Fourex]

Not surprised to see Andrew Johns name mentioned in amongst all that.......

 

[Unbreakable]

Judging by the footage that 7 news just showed from Round 16 last year, and what they heavily implied.. The halves pairing of Manly in 2015 have some serious questions to answer for.

 

[Morkel]

IIRC, the R24 game was a surprise at the time. Manly were coming home strong at the back end of the season, were playing good football, and with their season on the line just croaked. It wasn't even a "tried too hard" situation, they just played like they didn't give a shit.

 

[LittleDavey]

IIRC, the R24 game was a surprise at the time. Manly were coming home strong at the back end of the season, were playing good football, and with their season on the line just croaked. It wasn't even a "tried too hard" situation, they just played like they didn't give a shit.

Well if the rumours of 6 players having 50,000 reasons each not to give a shit are true........

Just wow. Don't these jokers get enough pay for their job? Considering some of the names being thrown around. Just....wow.

 

[Super Freak]

Well if the rumours of 6 players having 50,000 reasons each not to give a shit are true........

Just wow. Don't these jokers get enough pay for their job? Considering some of the names being thrown around. Just....wow.

That's the problem when you start getting big money..

You want more of it. Greed takes over.

 

[Kaz]

On the sports program on fox tonight, they said the first game Souths vs Manly, it's rumoured to be 6 players.

1 from Souths & 5 from Manly.

They said if you can find the game online watch the last 15 mins & see how bad Manly were.

 

[Kimlo]

Ohh, now I have to watch.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

edit: Sneaky but still too obvious

 

[Super Freak]

Based on the fact that Manly is involved in both and lost both matches in question, I would say they are the ones that should be concerned. Pretty hard to fix a match that you are to win.

A few players from each side could have easily orchestrated something.

But my comment was more about the fact that whenever a big scandal has come up in the NRL lately, Parra are usually mentioned.

 

[Fozz]

Chewbecca linking Kieran Foran and Hayson via his brother Liam who works for Hayson.

Eddie no stranger to playing long odds

Foran, his brother Liam and Hayson were spotted by senior Manly figures in a Brisbane nightclub the night of the Manly double header against Brisbane at Suncorp.
Sources close to Foran claim Hayson has taken a growing role in the NRL star’s life, along with Foran’s brother, Liam, who acts as Hayson’s assistant in business dealings.

Rugby League players really need to take stock of people they call friends. If you've grown up with someone then stick with them but if some dickhead bikie or brothel owner worms his way into your life then maybe keep them at arms length.