NRL stars insist they are entitled to their privacy amid the governing body’s bid to have access to players’ phone records and bank account details as part of the ongoing pay talks.

With both parties close to agreeing on a 29.5 per cent revenue share - including a $9.4m salary cap in 2018 - focus has now turned to the finer details of the collective bargaining agreement.

And a part of that includes the NRL integrity unit holding the keys to players’ personal information should any salary cap or match-fixing investigations arise.

The NRL claims it is a protective measure already used also by rival codes AFL and Cricket Australia, who both recently completed their CBAs earlier this year.

It is believed the AFL has access to their players’ private information, but strictly for inquiries into problems such as cap breaches or supplementary drug scandals.

Sydney Roosters pair Boyd Cordner and Aidan Guerra, who were among a gathering of almost 300 at a players’ union meeting on Monday, were reluctant to agree to opening their personal books.

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“I think at the end of the day, it’s sport. It’s a game of rugby league,” Cordner said on Tuesday.

“When they’re bringing in personal stuff like that, personally I don’t agree with it. But if that’s the way it goes, and everybody’s happy like that, we’re going to have to abide by it.”

Cordner said he could understand the NRL’s desire to clamp down on integrity problems.

“But then again, it’s a minority out of the playing group. It’s not all of us,” he said.

“I know it reflects on us as a group but then again I think it might be a knee-jerk reaction to something that happened a while ago from the minority.”

Roosters teammate Guerra echoed Cordner’s sentiments.

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“I don’t think they can just fill out a form and look in everyone’s phone records or anything like that. It’s got to be pretty extreme circumstances,” he said.

“But even still, I mean everyone’s entitled to their privacy. We’ll see how that pans out.”

St George Illawarra forward Paul Vaughan said it was a delicate topic. “It’s a tricky one. I wouldn’t be too comfortable with that personally,” he said.

“You would have to ask the boys collectively as a group, I’m not too sure but myself I wouldn’t be comfortable with that.”