Popular former NRL presenter Tiffany Salmond has revealed that NRL players have tried to date her by using a ‘bizarre and weird’ pick-up method that she hasn’t seen 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 a few times and I’ve never received these types of messages from anyone else except NRL players,’ she explained 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.

Tiffany Salmond (pictured) has revealed that footy players have tried to date her by using a ‘bizarre’ pick-up method

The former TV sideline reporter said she only gets those types of messages from NRL players

‘This is a very unique way of flirting that I’ve never experienced from anyone outside of the NRL, so I don’t know what’s going on here. Is this their locker room talk or do they think this works?’ she wondered.

‘I think the worst thing about this is that they wouldn’t send these messages – these weird videos with no context, and no ‘hey’, no message, if it didn’t work.

‘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 went on to say that she thinks footy players and other professional athletes are probably bad at flirting because all they usually need to do is ‘look in somebody’s direction’ and ‘women are falling all over them’.

‘I do take pride in being maybe the first, or one of the very few women, who humble them (players) and let them know that this doesn’t work, this is kind of weird behaviour,’ she said.

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.’

Salmond included an example of one of the messages she’s received

Salmond said footy players wouldn’t send these messages if they didn’t work to attract some 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.’