Renowned former NRL presenter Tiffany Salmond has disclosed that NRL players have attempted to approach her using an ‘unusual and peculiar’ method she hadn’t encountered before.

The 27-year-old New Zealand sports reporter took to social media this week to lift the lid on the types of DMs she gets from footy players.

“This has happened to me several times, and I’ve only received such messages from NRL players,” she stated on Instagram.

‘It’ll be on TikTok and what they’ll do is send me a video to my DMs with no context, no message, no “hey”, nothing. 

‘And it’s always these bizarrely sexually charged videos or like over-the-top “I’m attracted to you” type videos.

Salmond said the weirdest one she received had very explicit moaning as a soundtrack.

“This is a distinctly original way of flirting that I’ve never experienced from anyone outside of the NRL, leaving me puzzled. Is this their locker room banter, or do they believe this strategy is effective?” she pondered.

“The most troubling aspect is that they wouldn’t send these messages—odd videos without any context or greeting—if this method didn’t have some success,” she remarked.

‘I’m sure I’m not the first person they’ve tried it on, probably just the first person to make them realise how strange it is.

Salmond further commented that she believes footballers and other professional athletes might struggle with flirting because typically, all they need to do is make eye contact, and “women are immediately drawn to them.”

“I take pride in perhaps being one of the first, or one of the rare few, to ground them (players) and convey that this approach doesn’t work and is quite strange,” she expressed.

It’s not the first time that Salmond has called out men for their bad behaviour when flirting, recently warning them to ignore influencers like Andrew Tate.

‘Okay I was just about to leave the house and go on my usual morning walk, but there’s something that’s been on my mind lately and I thought screw it, I’m just going to say it,’ she said earlier this month.

‘I was about to say I don’t know what’s happened with the attitude men bring into dating these days, but it’s pretty clear it’s the whole Andrew Tate phenomenon, the manosphere, the red pill dating advice, the male dating gurus that think they can tell men today how to get women.’

‘And I just want to come on here and say, because I have quite a big male audience, that that advice is literally killing your dating life.’

The ‘Andrew Tate phenomenon’ and the ‘manosphere’ promote hyper-masculine views on dating.

Salmond warned men that using that sort of behaviour while dating would poison their chances of connecting with a woman.

‘This is a PSA to all the men that follow me that playing your weird little power games, being mean, being rude, negging [deliberate put-downs] – it’s the biggest turn-off. You neg me, you’re never going to hear from me.’

Salmond stressed that mocking, teasing or bullying behaviour is not attractive.

‘Especially not in the early stages when you haven’t got that rapport with someone, trying to test their boundaries.’

She described how men often disguise this behaviour, making it appear playful or flirty when it is actually undermining.

‘This sounds insane, but I [have] come across this one all the time, and it’s when men will try and … they think they’re being flirty and funny. But actually I don’t,’ Salmond said.

‘I think it’s veiled as flirty and funny, but it’s actually just trying to test your [confidence] and your boundaries.’