Gambling and players

[ClintEastwood]

Is there any restriction / rule on players and gambling? Is it only footy they are not allowed to gamble on? A mate of mine was telling me about having been doing a certain activity with a few of the boys.

 

[Sneeky]

I know a few players who punt on horses/dogs do I'm guessing it's ok. A few port players owned a greyhound together the other year.

 

[Janey]

Pretty sure it's only footy that's a problem. When Matty got suspended for two weeks, turned out he had put some sort of multi-bet on and it was only the inclusion of one AFL game that was problem. Other codes, horses, dogs etc. are all OK.

 

[Spadge]

AFL players are not allowed to bet on Football

they can bet on other things

 

[cmpower]

A lot of afl players have investments in Dogs and Horses (Campbell Brown has a few big ones). Trengove is a mad punter. and owns a dog or 2, along with some of the other players. My missus works at the dog track and sees him there a bit for dinner and to watch his race.
Not too mention players invest in hotels, which have pokies.

 

[Peck]

Is there any restriction / rule on players and gambling? Is it only footy they are not allowed to gamble on? A mate of mine was telling me about having been doing a certain activity with a few of the boys.

Well if it wasn't okay then posting up on bigfooty would be the best thing to do!

 

[ClintEastwood]

Well if it wasn't okay then posting up on bigfooty would be the best thing to do!

Hence not mentioning names or activities....yet

 

[Power Raid]

maybe we should get the players to put all their weeks pay on the game

I'm sure we would see a little extra effort

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

^^ I think a VFL team did that in the mid 1980's.

Pretty sure Imran Khan made the Paki players back themselves in a game, think it was a ODI in the 1992 world cup tournament hosted in Oz and NZ.