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Parker: I cheated in every NRL game I played
SEN • July 29th, 2025 12:41 pm
Corey Parker has conceded he “cheated every time he played” rugby league.
The discussion of cheating in sport was initiated on SENQ Breakfast after suspicious vision of Donald Trump’s aides dropping golf balls in more favourable areas of the greens for the President emerged from Scotland.
While some have since argued the video was in fact a drop, it hasn’t stopped the chorus of people calling Trump a cheat.
The topic of cheats in sport covered multiple Australian teams as well as international names and even led to a bold confession from Parker.
“I would have cheated every game I played,” he told co-host Ian Healy. “Make of that what you will.
“You are throwing the onus onto the officiator of the game.
“If I can get away with being a metre offside or not standing so square at marker or leaving a little earlier off the try line offensively - that’s cheating.
“I tried to stay (in the ump’s) blind spot. I used to tell the referee ‘I’m onside’.
“Some of the great manipulators of any game do it, Cameron Smith was probably the best I ever played with.”
Healy was not immune from confessions saying it was the Australian way when it comes to cricket. You don’t walk voluntarily. Always push the decision back on the officials.
“My philosophy was, we would appeal for a catch that was out or a catch that was given out,” he said. “There’s a nice sound. Even though we knew it wasn’t out.
“I shouldn’t have even said that I think I’m the only one that’s written that ever.
“We don’t walk unless we run out of petrol – it is a form of cheating, but we put it back on the officiator.
“We make no bones about the fact Australians don’t walk.”
The phone lines and text lines blew up with examples of the worst cheats in sport with the Chinese swimming team named, Sun Yang, Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong among the offenders.
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