whose number police allege Smith provided to former Roosters teammate Victor Radley<\/a> on a golf trip in June.<\/p>\nGroup Chat 1 (July 2)<\/p>\n
Friend A: You playing this weekend<\/p>\n
Smith: Yep<\/p>\n
Friend A: First grade?<\/p>\n
Smith: Yeah bro. Told me today. Starting too lol<\/p>\n
Alleged exchange between Radley & Smith | 02:53<\/p>\n
Group Chat 2 (July 5, from 6:35pm)<\/p>\n
Friend A: Let\u2019s go (Shares a screenshot of a $250 bet placed on Sportsbet for Brandon Smith anytime try scorer – odds $8.50 with potential return $2,125)<\/p>\n
Smith: 8.50 that\u2019s f…ing crazy<\/p>\n
Friend A: Can I get a confirmation you are run on? (starting)<\/p>\n
Smith: I\u2019m run on. 100 percent<\/p>\n
Friend A: (Shares a screenshot of a $200 bet placed on Sportsbet for Brandon Smith first try scorer – odds $91 with potential return $18,200).<\/p>\n
Smith: Hahahahahaha<\/p>\n
“Victor may have played his last game” | 03:17<\/p>\n
Chat with Smith and Friend B (July 5, from 6:37pm)<\/p>\n
Smith to Friend B: Bro I\u2019m paying $91 for first try scorer<\/p>\n
Friend B: Back it?<\/p>\n
Smith: I\u2019m starting<\/p>\n
Friend B: I\u2019ll back it<\/p>\n
Smith: So it\u2019s not a bad bet. Bra ask [Friend A] to send you his bet. 8.5 anytime. And 91. Sports bet. Think it\u2019s getting bobbed haha<\/p>\n
Friend B: I just went on lads got 51<\/p>\n
Police allege a day after the latter two text exchanges, Smith was announced as moving from the extended bench to starting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s concerning,\u201d Fox League\u2019s Dan Ginnane said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
Journalist Michael Carrayanis added: \u201cThe second text is him instigating, that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first one … he said haha, I\u2019m starting, along those lines. I don\u2019t have an issue with that because that\u2019s mail we could get in our everyday jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he has prompted this exchange (about the first try-scorer bet) … he\u2019s put it on someone\u2019s radar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no red flags in his performance at all. That\u2019s not screaming alarm bells, I don\u2019t think he altered his performance … but it becomes murky, and this is why players can\u2019t bet on games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith went close to scoring the first try of the game but it was recorded by Manly\u2019s Reuben Garrick in the 17th minute.<\/p>\n
Smith did not end up scoring, leaving the game injured in the 76th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The text messages which Queensland Police allege show South Sydney star Brandon Smith provided inside information about his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-149463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149463","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=149463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}