While the NRL talks tough over recreational drugs, an advert on its own website seen in some territories makes light of performance-enhancing substances. The star of the ad, for a gambling app, is Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, who was stripped of a 100-metre gold medal at the 1988 Olympics for doping. "No one knows performance enhancement like Ben Johnson," says the voiceover, explaining that this idea is what led the 55-year-old to endorse an "unfairly fast" phone app. "Get on it!" Johnson says, while posing in the starting blocks.

A longer version of the ad, shown on TV, includes puns like "puts the roid in android". Set Of Six saw the ad in North America on Sunday at the start of the Neil Henry media conference video; we'll let you decide whether that's appropriate right now – we're sure there will be a variety of opinions. Bacho Salam of North Queensland is the latest rugby league player to reportedly fall foul of drug testers.

"Unfairly fast": Sprinter Ben Johnson, who admitted to using performance enhancing drugs during his career, in an ad for a betting app that boasts it brings an unfair advantage to customers.

2. Getting a kick out of loophole

Wayne Bennett warned Daly Cherry Evans would start an epidemic of dives after a late disallowed try at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night, but the real obstruction trend may have been set in the earlier game. Faced with a situation in which two team-mates were blocking the defence from getting to him, Gold Coast hooker Nathan Peats opted to kick – and set up a try that proved crucial in the Titans' best win of the year. Rival skipper Cameron Smith pointed out that had Peats passed, the try would have been disallowed for obstruction. Commentator Andrew Voss added that under schoolyard rules, it was a shepherd. Coaches aren't dummies – we'll give officials until the end of the year to be forced into changing the interpretation.