Irregular betting in overseas markets is still largely monitored. But you can never 100% rule out corruption, all you can say is despite sophisticated software used by multiple agents no betting irregularities have been detected in Ash Klein's games.
I agree the NRL dropped the ball back in...
I think you have made two very good points arguing against point one. However yes the rules around involvement with betting companies is black and white his involvement as a customer is not against those black and white rules. Should it be? Yeah, for a whole list of reasons including those you...
Two seperate issues here.
1) NRL allowing him to ref with known gambling/financial concerns.
2) Has his financial concerns corrupted his integrity when refereeing games.
With regards to issue 1, I'm not sure how the NRL could initially keep him on in the role. Particularly as they try to...
I would expect that spending by Parra includes grants given by the NRL where as the 1.5mil in tigers spending obviously does not, making it about even between the two.
Everyone claims they know for a fact clubs are making payments outside the cap (and I believe they likely are). Why not report what you know, make it public knowledge and maybe have the NRL look into it?
Hes been available for about 2/3 of games the last 18 months. Not great, not awful, but pretty common for a body that is still developing being put under the stress of first grade to miss plenty of games.
In that time we've added to the stress on that body by playing him through the middle the...