Paul Kent

And that's the question that needs to be answered from the NRL.

How he got in there, how he got out of it, what happened?

Was it four $100,000 bets?

Was it four $101,000 bets?

Was it four $40,010 bets?

We don't know.

But there's a difference in the manner of those bets as well because the difference speaks to the depth of the problem.

And as we know, if he had a gambling addiction, which we're led to believe he did, addiction by its very nature is a lack of discipline.

So what I'm trying to say here… Brandon Smith goes to Gamblers Anonymous as of last year when he came up with a gambling problem.

It's certainly problematic.

And eventually there will come a problem.

Look, I said sometime back this year, there will come a point where we go, there's a problem here.

Now, this may not be that point, but there will come a point at some point in the future where it will be a problem.

The game can head that off by banning gambling across all sports.

Certainly in America, which has a history of being tainted, their sports, the Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919, the college basketball from, I think it was the 80s, where the referee was actually convicted of fixing games and officiating to get certain results.

And again, came out because he had a gambling debt.

And the bookies got to him, and the legal bookies got to him and said, look, we need to sort this out.

And they got him to start influencing results.

Now, the thing is… So did they bring in a blanket ban of betting?

You're not allowed to bet on betting in America.