Paul Kent

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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.

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.