Referees and match fixing

Maybe dave will be able to help out with this query too... At the moment and at previous times in the leagues history there have been allegations and convictions of match fixing. I know the referees appear to be protected species in match conferences and such but why are the media not suggesting that referees could be invlved? If I wanted to fix a game I would go to the referees rather than the players. If you were an outside person who knew nothing about league and saw some of those decisions that have been made wouldn't you question that? Even today Eddie hayson suggested that there's no money in bribing players as the refs have to much control??? What are people's thoughts on this?

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  • A referee would be the best person to corrupt, but a lot harder to approach from a gang member point of view.  The civil action of Defamation is what stops the media from seriously questioning the integrity of refs.  Refs are human and they stuff up just like players do.  With refs they get moved on (sacked) from year to year due to poor and inconsistent decisions and when they have a bad game (ie., Broncos vs Titans) they get dropped, hammered by the media, which in turn affects their ongoing employment.  It is a lot easier for criminal gangs to suck in young single NRL players with parties, drink, drugs and girls, then a married ref who doesn't go to pubs/clubs and licenced premises. 

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