{"id":147552,"date":"2025-09-16T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147552\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:14:08","slug":"court-documents-reveal-alleged-texts-between-smith-radley-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147552\/","title":{"rendered":"Court documents reveal alleged texts between Smith, Radley – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Court documents will allege Brandon Smith<\/a> put Victor Radley<\/a> in contact with an accused drug supplier.<\/p>\n

Smith has been charged with a drug offence, and a separate betting offence, with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> hooker to appear at Southport Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The documents, revealed by The Daily Telegraph, will allege that Radley’s number was found in the alleged supplier’s phone, and that Smith was the link between the two.<\/p>\n

The police facts statement suggests that Radley asked Smith to “tee up your cousin” with a “little short ball” or a “short eight-ball” when he was on the Sunshine Coast for a golf trip.<\/p>\n

At the time, both Radley and Smith played for the Roosters.<\/p>\n

Police will state in the hearing that ‘short eight-ball’ is a common slang term meaning one-eighth of an ounce of powdered drugs.<\/p>\n

It’s believed the trip to the Sunshine Coast – which came during a bye week – was talked about between Radley and Smith as far back as April 9, 2025, when Smith was still at the Roosters.<\/p>\n

It’s reported by the publication that Radley first made mention of the ‘short eight-ball’ on May 30.<\/p>\n

Smith replied, saying he would give Radley the contact when he got it.<\/p>\n

The alleged drug dealer was arrested by Queensland Police on July 18, with his phone seized. Smith was then interviewed when the Rabbitohs travelled to Queensland for a game against the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, before being charged with the two offences on August 9.<\/p>\n

Radley was named in the case, but has not been charged by police.<\/p>\n

Smith, through his lawyer Paul McGirr, has advised that he will be pleading not guilty to all offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Court documents will allege Brandon Smith put Victor Radley in contact with an accused drug supplier. Smith has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-147552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}