{"id":279870,"date":"2025-11-12T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279870\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:24:18","slug":"victor-radley-cleared-to-return-in-round-6-for-sydney-roosters-despite-10-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279870\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Radley cleared to return in round 6 for Sydney Roosters despite 10-game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Roosters star Victor Radley<\/a> will only serve half of his club-imposed suspension in the NRL season, freeing him to return to the field earlier than anticipated.<\/p>\n

According to various reports, including from The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the 10-game ban handed down will include three Ashes matches and two pre-season trials.<\/p>\n

Radley opted out of playing for England<\/a> following the cocaine scandal that engulfed him and the club late in the season, also involving former teammate Brandon Smith.<\/p>\n

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Victor Radley\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was not charged by police or accused of any wrongdoing, but the Roosters had previously expressed their strict anti-drug policy and were close to tearing up the remainder of Radley’s contract after he brought the club into disrepute.<\/p>\n

As a result, he was banned for 10 matches without pay by the Tricolours<\/a> and also fined $30,000 that was donated to St Vincent’s Hospital for cancer research.<\/p>\n

Radley will be free to play in round six after Trent Robinson and Nick Politis agreed to allow the Ashes series and pre-season games to count towards the suspension.<\/p>\n

The NRL did not hand down a punishment to Radley due to the severity of the club’s sanction, which they labelled as the biggest in their history.<\/p>\n

Roosters general manager of football Mitch Aubusson was quoted by News Corp to explain the decision to allow Radley back early. <\/p>\n

“Rads was going to be picked for England and he was desperate to play,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Victor Radley has played for England in recent years\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“He made the decision to put the club first and withdraw from selection.<\/p>\n

“Plus, he missed out on getting paid for playing in the Test matches. He made the call to do it for the club. That’s what the Roosters mean to him.<\/p>\n

“No matter what way you look at it, it’s still a harsh penalty and a fair whack.”<\/p>\n

Radley has been a staple of the Bondi-based outfit since his debut in 2017, playing in two successful grand final triumphs and pulling on the famous kit 161 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters star Victor Radley will only serve half of his club-imposed suspension in the NRL season, freeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-279870","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\/279870","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=279870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}