Ladies and gentlemen, the numbskulls strike again. This time it is NRL superstar, Dally M winner and former San Francisco 49er, Jarryd Hayne.

You could not make this stuff if you tried with The Daily Telegraph releasing footage of Hayne and alleged bikie Chris Bloomfield cruising around the Gold Coast after the Titans were knocked out of the finals by Brisbane last Friday night.

“Haynesy just gave me five grand,” Bloomfield says into the camera holding a large bundle of cash.

Then in a masterstroke of pure genius Hayne replies, ““Cash money fam, cash money. Give me a f****** cigarette.”

Jarryd Hayne, could you be any more of an idiot?

Just when you thought NRL players couldn’t get any dumber we get this on the eve of the second week of the playoffs.

Titans officials are rightly seething and you can just imagine Chief Executive Graham Annesley’s reaction when he saw the footage. This is all after the Titans splurged over a million dollars a season to sign the former Parramatta fullback.

In no way is what Hayne did illegal but seriously?

What world are these people living in?

But rest easy because it’s not us giving the game a bad name, it’s the players. You don’t see NRL touch judges going on social media and acting like drunken morons or commentators asking for a “f****** cigarette” live on-air or an assistant NRL coach with a mobile phone in his face performing oral sex on some woman.

It’s a real shame because so many of the players do a great job but no longer can we give them the benefit of the doubt. The minority has wrecked it for all of them.

The Titans released this statement: “The Gold Coast Titans and the NRL Integrity Unit have been made aware of a video that is circulating which features Titans player Jarryd Hayne and briefly Nene Macdonald.

“We are liaising with the Integrity Unit and the players over the matter and have no further comment until those discussions are completed.”

MacDonald has also been implicated as an Instagram photo surfaced of him with the same alleged bikie.

Yes none of this is illegal but it burns the game so why can’t the players see it?

So how do you stop them?

How can you possibly hurt these guys in a world of social media, massive contracts and all the fame you can ever image?

Ask yourself a question.

How much is the game’s image worth?

Everything, should be your answer.

The NRL should fine Hayne a minimum of $150,000 for embarrassing the game. Hayne’s fine should be the starting point and the game should crack down with an iron fist for any player that wants to hurt the image. The money should be paid by Hayne and given to a grassroots region that desperately needs the money.

If money is everything than use it against them.

Make them accountable and burn them at the hip pocket.

If they still don’t learn their lessons, we’ll fine them out of the game.

And then they’ll realise, that the only reason they live the lives they do, is because of rugby league.

@woodward_curtis