“Let me be clear whatever the police require they will get from the NRL and our integrity unit”.
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“I want everyone in rugby league to hear me very directly today”, Greenberg said.
“The organised crime squad is in the early stage of examining information relating to alleged match-fixing in the NRL”, an NSW police spokeswoman said by telephone on Thursday.
“The organised crime squad is in the early stage of examining information relating to alleged match-fixing in the NRL”, a New South Wales (NSW) police spokeswoman said.
“No further comment is appropriate at this stage”.
“(Match-fixing) is a threat which exists for all sport in this country and globally”, Greenberg told local media in Sydney on Thursday.
“If any allegations are proven and individuals are found guilty, we will ban them for life”.
“Manly were playing hard, we were playing hard and we’re both doing our best to win the game”, Goodwin said.
Rugby league has been rocked before by “spot fixing” allegations in the past but never by match fixing.
“The NRL is treating this as a serious matter and will take any action necessary to protect the integrity of the game”, a spokesman said.
Police are reportedly probing two 2015 games involving Manly – their round 16 20-8 loss to South Sydney and their round 24 20-16 defeat against Parramatta.
The current investigation comes just two weeks after three players – Corey Norman, Junior Pauloand James Segeyaro – were officially warned against consorting with criminal figures.
Geoff Toovey, who was Manly head coach past year for both of the games that are understood to be part of the police investigation, said on Thursday he did not believe there had been anything untoward take place but encouraged the allegations to be tested.
The NRL was rocked by a fixing scandal in 2011 when former Ireland global Ryan Tandy was found guilty of spot-fixing when playing for the Canterbury Bulldogs the previous year.
Tandy was fined $4000 and placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond, with the magistrate presiding over the case saying he was clearly involved in a plan to make money off the first scoring play of the game.
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In 2014 the 32-year-old Tandy was found dead at the Gold Coast home of his parents from an apparent drug overdose.
