Ashley Klein gambling Problems

What can you expect when you have a failed politician like Anusley in charge of the refereeing and judiciary,it should be renamed to Fraud central.
 
Not tryna defend the bloke at all, but apparently he’s still $250k in the red. So unless he’s playing the long game and paying it off slowly to not look sus, I highly doubt he himself has been putting money on nrl games
 
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Hypothetically, if you go to work and tell your employer you have a $400k gambling problem what are the odds your employer will respond by sending you on a junket to Vegas every year? For those of you playing at home, yes, every year!
 
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 distance employees from gambling conflicts. Surely avenues for him to be employed elsewhere or simply stood down. If stood down further questions of if/when he could possibly return to refereeing but no action is pretty unbelievable.

Having said that I think it would actually be weaker to take action now. For 4 years he was refereeing games with known gambling issues. A further 3 with remaining large gambling debts. If the NRL has deemed him fit to referee all this time, the revelation becoming public shouldn't change that.

2) there is no genuine suggestions of corruption. This isnt simply his own accounts don't show NRL bets but it would also be no irregular betting activity on his games. Any large irregular betting gets picked up pretty quickly Ryan Tandy, Bellamy Dally M, Storm wooden spoon as some examples.
 
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 distance employees from gambling conflicts. Surely avenues for him to be employed elsewhere or simply stood down. If stood down further questions of if/when he could possibly return to refereeing but no action is pretty unbelievable.

Having said that I think it would actually be weaker to take action now. For 4 years he was refereeing games with known gambling issues. A further 3 with remaining large gambling debts. If the NRL has deemed him fit to referee all this time, the revelation becoming public shouldn't change that.

2) there is no genuine suggestions of corruption. This isnt simply his own accounts don't show NRL bets but it would also be no irregular betting activity on his games. Any large irregular betting gets picked up pretty quickly Ryan Tandy, Bellamy Dally M, Storm wooden spoon as some examples.
Mate you’re wrong on both of these .
Point 1 . The rules about involvement with betting companies and affiliates are black and white . You’re not allowed. In a business where the integrity of it is the most inportant of all things , his very being there undermines the integrity , and as such is grounds for instant dismissal. It’s literally like for my industry if I went out and sabotaged equipment accidentally / indirectly, and it was all over the news I’d cost the company tens of millions of dollars. I’d be let go that day .
Point 2 . Just because there’s no paper trail , the very fact the lead nrl red spend his spare time , around the Sydney underworld and gaming industry is once again grounds for instant dismissal .
I worked a job in another life where I signed away and agreed to behave in certain ways , keep certain information quiet , and sacrifice other things because they were detrimental to and contrary to the role I was asked to perform . Whether he did or didn’t is irrelevant . The integrity of the game is sacrosanct. He simply by association at best , and who knows what at worse , has gone against what it’s clear in his role he’s not supposed to do.
No different to many of us who work in roles where some of the restrictions of the role can limit things .
Especially when clubs and fans and players have been breached in the past by being in the wrong place at the wrong time .
 
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