Paul Crawley

Welcome to Kenny Blitch, your daily hit of NRL news.

I'm Paul Crawley with Paul Kent.

How are you, mate?

I'm looking forward to it.

Well, how do you see it, mate?

A lot of people are talking about the fact that he should be stood down.

There's no proof of him betting on rugby league games.

Talk us through this.

It's a bad look for the game.

But let's go back and break this down because the report said 2019 is when the NRL first became aware of it, right?

Yeah.

They did an investigation.

It wasn't until 2023 that Klein registered on BetStop.

See, I don't necessarily agree with this transparency aspect that you talk about.

And I know you say this is a public game and people in private business are allowed to have their business kept private.

But in the NRL, why should it be any different for the players as opposed to, like if players test positive to drugs within their club,

To start with, their coach doesn't even know.

Their CEO doesn't even know.

So why should a referee's business become public when, look, we've seen over time.

But we've seen over time, right, in the betting stakes that we've seen players' polls, we've heard players talk about the fact that there's just this –