Should the NRL sever ties with Gambling sponsorship?

Should the NRL sever ties with Gambling sponsorship?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 82.4%
  • No

    Votes: 6 17.6%

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Grunthos

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Does big money sponsorship bring corruption to the game?
They will tell you how much the game needs the sponsorships to grow but is this at the cost of its integrity?
 

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Does big money sponsorship bring corruption to the game?
They will tell you how much the game needs the sponsorships to grow but is this at the cost of its integrity?
No? How
 

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100% Yes. If you want to punt, you already have an app with all the odds, you don't need peanut Joel Cane updating you. Just like what they did with smoking advertising.

Tin Foil hat on me does say that Sports Bet and NRL are working together.

But it will never happen due to NRL getting a cut of winnings etc etc.
 

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Though not gambling-related Ill give you an example of how big money has changed the game for the worst.
Back in the 1980s, it was decided to scrap contested scrums, the reason given was safety issues.
The real reason is that Channel 9 worked out that if the scrums were sped up they could put another 2-3 minutes worth of advertising in their broadcast and an integral part of the game has been lost forever.
 

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Not sure on that mate there WERE real safety issues
John Farragher ring a bell??
 

Grunthos

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Not sure on that mate there WERE real safety issues
John Farragher ring a bell??
I was in advertising and media and dealt extensively with most MSM advertising executives in Sydney and across Australia at the time and I can tell you, safety was never an issue.
 

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Well..a guy became a paraplegic it fucking well should have been a focus.
 

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Well..a guy became a paraplegic it fucking well should have been a focus.
Most injuries in League come from the initial tackle and in Union from the tackle and in the ruck and maul but very rarely in the scrum.
 

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100% Yes. If you want to punt, you already have an app with all the odds, you don't need peanut Joel Cane updating you. Just like what they did with smoking advertising.

Tin Foil hat on me does say that Sports Bet and NRL are working together.

But it will never happen due to NRL getting a cut of winnings etc etc.
They pump a huge amount of money into the game so let them have their Joel Caine moment.
 

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Not sure if it brings corruption directly, but the game needs to be perceived to being clean and Banning betting sponsorship is the first step. Also, betting odds have become more prominent than other information and stats. Primary school kids could probably quote the odds these days. That's not a good thing.

Get betting off sports telecasts. Period.
 
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Yes. Gives the sport such an amateurish feel when you watch it and are constantly bombarded with this crap
 

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id rather promote anything and be free.
We ban gamling then whats next? alcohol? why one and not the other?
Then fentanyl, then sugary soft drinks.
then itll be something ridiculous likee hawaiian pizza dating apps because it offends trans etc which we do see around the place

we are already in a conversation elsewhere about australia becoming totalitarian. Dont wish for it. embrace libertarianism.

just let it be yo, i like knowing odds
 

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Sure. How are we making up that $90 million?
 

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Does big money sponsorship bring corruption to the game?
They will tell you how much the game needs the sponsorships to grow but is this at the cost of its integrity?
big money corruption brings big money fat pockets NRL will bmnever get rid of the betting sponsorships
 
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