Paul Kent

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.

Professional athletes aren't allowed to bet on sport.

Full stop.

Okay.

Now…

Rugby league is probably going to have to go down that.

We are a country.

We're the biggest gambling nation in the world, essentially, per capita.

So we are a country that gets off on the punting.

I like a bet.

Yeah, you don't like a bet as much as me, but I know you've had one every now and then.

The fact is we have this look at ourselves, this idea of ourselves where we go, well, that's who we are.

We like a punt.