New Zealand Warriors chief Jim Doyle has urged the NRL to revisit its protocols around team announcements, believing the risk of inside information being passed on for gambling purposes could be limited by overhauling the system.

Doyle was in charge of the NRL's integrity unit during his stint as the chief operating officer at Rugby League Central and oversaw a raft of new measures to protect the game's integrity. They included the limiting of the exotic markets that betting agencies were allowed to offer and an expansion of the game's registration scheme, which meant club directors and staffers were bound by the same code of conduct – and the same sanctions for breaking it – as the players.

The former New Zealand Rugby League boss was close to implementing another fundamental integrity change before taking the Warriors job. Doyle had proposed that the naming of football teams be delayed, initially by a day, as part of a strategy to ensure the team that runs onto the park is the same as that named earlier in the week. The initiative was put forward following concerns that information about team changes was being passed on to individuals to gain a betting advantage, a valuable commodity in the punting arena.

The NRL was poised to shift the naming of teams from Tuesday to Wednesday for the 2015 season, but the plan was aborted when Doyle took the Warriors job midway through 2014. It is understood one of the reasons for aborting the proposal was concerns the official match-day program, in Big League magazine, would be affected.