Bombers midfielder Jake Melksham has injured his hand during a intra-club match.
AFL boss Andrew Demetriou is adamant that cheating of any form in the AFL will not be accepted and you will be caught.
A year-long investigation into Australian sport has revealed widespread doping and links to organised crime.
BOOKMAKERS around Australia have suspended betting on Essendon-related matches and on the club's Brownlow favourites.
It comes as advocates call for a ban on all AFL betting in a bid to rid football of any match-fixing and Premier Ted Baillieu said there needed to be a renewed analysis of gambling and sport.
Tabcorp alone took $7.3 million in bets on Grand Final Day, while in the 2010-11 financial year, more than $3.3 billion in betting was placed on sporting matches nationally.
Anti-gambling campaigner and independent senator Nick Xenophon said a gambling summit, similar to the AFL's drug summit, should be held to canvass issues and get insight from players.
But the AFL says it has no plans to review or change any betting arrangements, saying "the way we operate is the best arrangement".
Bookmakers have suspended betting on the opening match of the AFL season between Adelaide and Essendon and any cash being placed on Bomber Brownlow Medal hopefuls including 2012 medallist Jobe Watson.
On hold also is which sides will make the top four, the wooden spoon, final eight and minor premiership.
Senator Xenophon said sporting codes were "asking for corruption" by encouraging ball-by-ball betting and micro-betting.
"It is over-saturation. It's a huge cultural shift that is now about odds and no longer about the love of the game," he said.
Senator Xenophon said the AFL needed to sever its links with betting agencies to avoid corruption in the game.
"It makes players vulnerable to match-fixing," he said.
But AFL spokesman Patrick Keane said the league did not support any bans on betting.
He said the AFL was in charge of approving what bets could be placed on and would not conduct a review into current practices.
"Under the current arrangement, we are able to monitor what is happening around our game, " Mr Keane said.
Betting has come under scrutiny again after a damning report from the Australian Crime Commission that found organised-crime networks supplied banned drugs to elite sports players and exposed them to corrupt on-field behaviour.
Nicholas Tzaferis, spokesman for Tabcorp, said Australia had some of the most sophisticated sports betting regulations in the world.
"It's far safer to have a well-regulated betting industry, whose operations are open to scrutiny, than allow the activity to go underground and unchecked," he said.
Anti-gambling campaigner Tim Costello, chair of the Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce, said that the number of people needing help with gambling for sports betting had doubled and would soon rival those addicted to pokies.
He said he had seen cases of children as young as 12 using their parents' credit cards and putting money on matches.
"You are now being urged by football and cricket commentators to indulge your natural passion with a flutter," he said.
"A ban is only short-term but it's a wake-up call that we are in a terrible mess."
Tabcorp is the only agency to hold a Victorian wagering licence. Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation data shows more than $789 million was lost in sports betting from 2001-12.
But this figure does not include millions lost through other major bookies, including Sportsbet, Betfair and Centrebet and Tom Waterhouse.
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