Guilty will get life bans: Gallop
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By AAP, 8 Sep 2010 AAP is a Roar Pro
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NRL boss David Gallop has threatened life bans for any player found guilty of involvement in the betting scandal which has gripped the game.
Speaking at a state of the game address on Wednesday, Gallop said the matter was now in the hands of police, though he refused to rule out the NRL handing out its own penalty.
NSW Police have set up a taskforce to investigate suspicious betting activity surrounding the round 24 match between North Queensland and Canterbury in Townsville.
Betting agencies alerted the NRL when a large number of bets were placed on the first scoring play, which normally does not attract much attention.
“If these matters are proven, then you can expect to see us take the harshest action that we’ve got available to us,” Gallop said.
“In terms of individuals obviously life bans are available to us and if this type of thing is proven then you would have to say that’s very much on the cards.”
Gallop said the league had not been given a timeframe for the police investigation to be completed.
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Irene Tobin said | September 8th 2010 @ 3:26pm | Report comment
The NRL is a News Limited company. It is not a statutory Authority, a court of law or even an entity based on a public forum.
Further, the chances are, Rupert’s company is about to hand over control of the game to another bunch of fat cats.
In short, it has no power to ban anyone from earning a living. Rupert and Mr Gallop, you might want to look up a little thing called the Trade Practices Act, 1974. If you are really lazy, call Dennis Tutty.
Gob Bluth said | September 8th 2010 @ 7:14pm | Report comment
Irene,
I’m trying to get your logic. So if you are an employee and embezzle funds, if you are sacked do you take the employer to court via the Trade Practices Act and claim they stopped you from earning a living?
Match fixing is illegal, its not just trying to earn an income…or were the pakistani cricketers just “earning an income”
josho said | September 9th 2010 @ 2:49pm | Report comment
Sorry Irene, but the NRL are well within their rights to refuse to ratify the contract of any player, provided there are sufficient grounds to do so. Said circumstances may include instances of repeated misbehaviour much less criminal activity including, but not limited to, recieveing funds by deception (match fixing).
Or do you think Danny Wicks and Reni Matuia have a case against the NRL for season 2010??
Dennis Tutty??? I think you will find the elements at law which apply to a restraint of trade as it related to Tutty are somewhat different to that which applies to the NRL’s refusal to register a player having been found guilty of match fixing.
But David Gallop’s legal background is obviously no match for your ability to use google……
Gareth said | September 8th 2010 @ 3:49pm | Report comment
Are we going to see the same threats made against players who wilfully cheat the salary cap? If we hypothesize that Ryan Tandy is guilty of the allegations against him, is giving away two points in a game that doesn’t decide anything really a more serious infringement that taking additional payments under the table and being part of an illegal team that then has a significant effect on the outcome of the actual premierships in multiple years?
Jeff said | September 8th 2010 @ 5:27pm | Report comment
For F++ sake Meesta Gallop. GO AWAY. you are a two faced being, Trying to crucify a good team player and threatening life bans, whilst Lauding that you gave the Dally M winner lots of chances. Yeah Please get a job that pays well in some law office, we had enough of your CRAP.
Gob Bluth said | September 8th 2010 @ 7:15pm | Report comment
How good is a team player who tries to give away penalties to the other team?
Mushi said | September 9th 2010 @ 1:33pm | Report comment
A good team player? If proven to be invovled then the only team this guy is playing for is organsied crime.
josho said | September 9th 2010 @ 2:55pm | Report comment
For F@@&^ sake?? so you are cool with players fixing matches???? There’s a difference between being a young and immature goose and being a low life cheating piece of sh!t. For one the immature goose is not a cheat, unlike performance enhancing drug cheats, salary cap cheats and match fixers.
Otherwise if we applied the same rules to everyone, you’d be given a life ban from commenting on the Roar.
Jeff said | September 9th 2010 @ 5:02pm | Report comment
Have I missed something, You guys are already crucifying this player without being found guilty. If he is then no penalty is big enough, If he isn’t he should suee all those who have made allegations against him!!.
Danno1 said | September 9th 2010 @ 10:11pm | Report comment
Thing I find interesting is the Nine, the NRL, and all the papers are constantly talking about the odds of this & that, carrying adverts for gambling, advising what the odds are at half-time and on and on it goes.
What did they expect to happen when gambling is so openly embraced. If they are serious, the NRL should remove all aspects of sponsorship related to gambling same as smoking & alcohol.
If the player involved is found guilty he should serve a similar penalty to an athlete who takes performance enhancing drugs. Then it will be up to the “market” to determine if they want to give a cheat a second chance.
I’d be interested to see what would happen if the punter who happened to put the large bets on was a 7%er, if it was, would the police review every match his clients were involved in? Wonder what they would find, and how far back they would look?
The NRL should also re-open the Melb wooden spoon betting plunge as well, or is that a plunge too close to the bone?