Going EW on the ponies makes some sense, even more on the dogs. Rugby league, though, is not an each-way game. For one, with golden point in effect for the best part of two decades, there is no second or third dividend. We see the occasional draw but, when that occurs, no one wins.

At it's very core, rugby league is all-in game. Yes people still try the each way, at the judiciary, with rule changes, with discipline for off-field slip-ups but, like the draw, no one ever really wins. We've seen that in multiple instances over the last fortnight.

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Just about all parties had a crack at it through the Kevin Proctor biting saga, from the very moment it occurred. Shaun Johnson was adamant he was bitten, later on not so much. Proctor's first on-field defence was not denial but justification "he was choking me." Then he hadn't bitten him at all.

Johnson continued the yes, no, maybe at the judiciary. The panel went for an each-way bet of its own, finding Proctor guilty of biting but only suspending him for four weeks. Biting used to be as low as it got, now there's apparently degrees of biting.

Each-way bets are even more tangibly flawed when you look at clubs hiring and firing of coaches, though they give it a go anyway.

When the Dragons slumped to a 22-2 loss, and an 0-4 start, to the Bulldogs in round four Paul McGregor said he'd "understand" if the board moved to sack him. They didn't sack him, but they didn't really back him either.

Instead, it went each-way and imposed the 'selection panel' that McGregor pointed to as the chief reason he walked away last week. As he quite rightly said, when you're being asked to own a result, and wear all the flack if you don't get it, you should have full say in the team you out out there.

A look at Mary's recent tenure reveals several occasions the club went each-way. Recruitment was taken out of his hands. It wasn't his call to drop near $2 million a year on Ben Hunt and Corey Norman. Then there was the review that Phil Gould has recently admitted wasn't really a review at all. At the very least it did not put in place his recommendations.

Of all the criticisms levelled at McGregor, the suggestion it was ever about selfishness or self-preservation is by far the most flawed. His final act in staying on for the Eels match was a case in point. It was a selfless one.

They were playing a top-four side at their home ground in the week a coach departed. The form guide would've said they were headed for a flogging, and McGregor was going to own that result - good, bad or horrific.

In the end the Dragons produced the upset and it proved a more fitting send off for a club great, but it could easily have gone the other way. Either way though, it's given Dean Young clear air to start off as interim coach this week. That, in a round about way, brings us to our point.

Young needs, and deserves, more than an each-way chance at the full-time gig. He has the resume as an assistant and the pedigree to satisfy both sides of the joint-venture.

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There's nothing the decision-makers don't already know about his abilities and character. If the full-time job really is his to lose as it's been reported elsewhere, than the club needs to go all-in.

Other mooted candidates - like Craig Fitzgibbon, Jason Ryles and Shane Flanagan - are unavailable at present for differing reasons. That won't be the case in a years' time and you can bet that discussion will only ramp up if the club only half commits to Young.

If the club thinks Young is the man for the job now, it needs to go all-in - that means at least two years but more likely three. He, more than anyone else, knows the pressure that will come with it, which is another box he ticks.

He never went anything but all-in for the club as a player. He's entitled to the same thing from the club in return.