Paul Crawley

outrageous amount of gambling addiction going on in the game.

Like you go back two decades, mate, they were talking 50% of the players after a poll that said their teammates had some sort of gambling problem.

But they're not gambling on rugby league.

They're gambling on other sports.

Like that's-

That's what's out in the public domain at the moment.

You're talking about, you know, Ashley Kine's debts.

We don't know.

Let's talk about other lacks of discipline over time though, okay?

So because we're talking about Ashley Cline and he's in the news at the moment, but you and I will both go back through the years when Nathan Hindmarsh released his book.

He admitted to gambling, I think it was in the vicinity of $200,000 on the pokies.

Poker machines.

When Steve Price was a young guy at the Bulldogs, I think he was actually – Peter Moore may have banned him from the Canterbury Leagues Club because of his problem gambling –

At the time, he spoke about it later.

There was so much compassion and understanding towards these players.

We had Luke Bateman from the Raiders who I think at the end of last year admitted that he'd lost something in the vicinity of $500,000 during his playing days to the point where he was on like a $400,000 contract and his mother had to pay for his mortgage.

You know, and he said in his interview when he spoke about this publicly that he reckons about half of his teammates had some sort of gambling problem.

So we've got a game here, though.

We've got a game here that allows…

referees, players, officials to bet on other sports, but they're not allowed to bet on rugby league.