Paul Kent

The gambling aspect of the game, the performance of referees, the lack of accountability for many of the decisions they're making, and it just continues to, I think, add to this whole narrative that something stinks in the state of Denmark.

I get that.

Okay.

But this to me, gambling on a game affects the outcome of the game, which affects the integrity of the whole sport.

I get that.

And that's why they need to come out.

And if that's all it is, show us the investigation.

Show us where he bet.

And we're not alleging that Ashley Cline has bet on rugby league.

Let's be clear about that.

But let's just talk hypotheticals here.

Anybody that gets themselves into a $400,000 gambling debt is open to shadowy figures coming in and offering them ways to get out of that debt.

So you've got to... There are...

To me, the gambling is akin to systematic doping.

It's not one player going out and being a drug cheat and whatever.

To me, it is having an impact on the whole game, like, for example, a club that is injecting all their players, such as we saw back in 2012 with the Cronulla incident, okay, with the peptide scandal.

I think it's on that side of scale because gambling, it affects your entire faith in the game.

If scores are being fixed to settle betting accounts.

Well, he's made himself vulnerable.

He's made himself, by getting into that kind of debt, he's made himself vulnerable to people getting in there, mate, I can help you fix that debt up.