The NRL is reviewing a video produced by a bookmaker in which the game’s match review committee boss Luke Patten made comments about the off-field behaviour of Cameron Munster and said Mitchell Moses “should be doing much better than he is”.
Ladbrokes, one of the fastest-growing brands in Australian wagering, is permitted to bet on NRL matches. “He’s got a star team around him and he should be doing much better than what he is,” Patten says of Moses. “At the end of the day, he’s the halfback, he’s getting paid the big bucks to get the job done and he’s not getting it done.”, Patten said he had appeared in several Ladbrokes videos with approval from the NRL and would have no issue giving them up if instructed.
Patten has proactively sought to explain a number of match review committee decisions this season, including a call not to ban Storm prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona for an apparent elbow on Warriors hooker Wayde Egan.