Paul Crawley

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.

Do you think that the time is coming where we have to address that and maybe make it a blanket gambling ban for the integrity of the game?

But they're hard, though, Paul.

Mate, like, you go back just to Origin 1 and the Ponga send-off, right?

And some people are already using that as evidence.

You've got 50% of people that will say he shouldn't have been sent off, and you've got another 50% that say he should have been sent off.

I know you and I both believe he should have been sent off, yet in the Courier Mail the next day, I think they voted...

Ashley Klein, New South Wales, is the man of the match.

You make a valid point there because it's an easy fix to come up with, you know, giving the public enough information to say, okay, it's all legit.

Okay?

Sometimes you get there and you watch games sometimes and you feel like that, don't you?