Benji Marshall has slammed the prospect of NRL players being banned for life for match-fixing saying if he found out his teammates had fixed matches he’d never speak to them again.

“There’s no excuse, honestly,” he said on Fox Sports’ NRL 360.

“There is a lot of education around it and, to be fair, if there was anyone in my team (and) I knew about it, I couldn’t be (more) filthy on a bloke and I’d never want to speak to him again.

“In my books, that’s unacceptable and as a teammate if someone’s throwing a game or whatever it is, that’s just not on.”

Marshall did however admit that there could be a problem for the game.

“Problem gambling is a problem in this country, first of all,” Marshall said.

“I wouldn’t say it’s most players in the game. It becomes a problem when you’re gambling money that you don’t have or you’re gambling money that you use to pay your bills or you’re borrowing money to gamble.

“That’s when it becomes a problem …. but the hardest thing is no players are going to say to you: ‘I’ve got a gambling problem, can you help me?’

“That’s hard to get out of players so I think (if) we can have more counselling or more one-on-one talks with people who may have a problem, it will benefit them.”