as revealed by Love Rugby League earlier this week<\/a>, after Shaun Wane insisted he would pick the forward if he is fit.<\/p>\nBut Radley\u2019s sanctions may not end with what has happened at the Roosters. Fresh reports in Australia have suggested that the NRL are going to come down heavy on the forward for potentially bringing the game into disrepute, with Smith also set to be targeted by Peter V\u2019landys and Andrew Abdo too.<\/p>\n
With Radley\u2019s name all over the news for the wrong reasons in recent days, there is a belief \u2013 according to a report from Code Sports \u2013 that it has robbed the NRL of the usual space it would expect to receive for its play-off coverage.<\/p>\n
That report also suggests that Canterbury\u2019s original hopes of attracting a crowd of around 70,000 for their game against Penrith on Sunday have effectively been ruled out due to a lack of marketing, with Radley and Smith\u2019s names instead dominating the press and the column inches.<\/p>\n
Roosters chairman Nick Politis, who previously said the club had a \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 approach to drugs, insists that if the club had legally been able to terminate Radley\u2019s contract, then that would have happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if the grounds were there for us to rip up his contract, we would have,\u201d Politis said. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t have that. He wasn\u2019t charged with anything, so there were no grounds to terminate his contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould we have gone down the path of sacking him for bringing the club into disrepute? Maybe, but we would have left ourselves open to a wrongful dismissal [case].<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took the most severe course of action available to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Radley will now face further punishment from the NRL, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL are set to hand Victor Radley a further punishment on top of the one he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-157235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157235","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=157235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}