{"id":56774,"date":"2025-08-10T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56774\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:13:08","slug":"rabbitohs-star-brandon-smith-questioned-by-police-before-titans-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56774\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbitohs star Brandon Smith questioned by police before Titans game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon Smith<\/a>‘s milestone 150th game was thrown a curveball after the Rabbitohs<\/a> star was questioned by police upon his arrival to Queensland.<\/p>\n

The mid-season recruit, who has been sidelined with a knee injury suffered in his first game for South Sydney, is slated to make his return on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Smith flew with his teammates to Coolangatta the day before the game when he was called aside by Queensland Police, according to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Smith of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“Queensland Police had cause to speak to a 29-year-old male at Coolangatta Airport. The male was later released without charge,” a statement from the authorities said.<\/p>\n

“Police have no further information to provide.”<\/p>\n

The reason why Smith was questioned is unclear at this stage. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing from that the New Zealand international.<\/p>\n

Smith joined the Bunnies mid-way through the season after a well-publicised exit from cross-town rivals the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n

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The 29-year-old was still recovering from an ACL injury when he signed with Souths and returned against Manly in round 18, before suffering a fresh knee injury.<\/p>\n

It delayed the milestone appearance for Smith by more than a month. The hooker was presented his jersey by club legend Issac Luke.<\/p>\n

Smith won’t be the only Rabbitohs star making their return for the must-win clash against the Titans, with marquee man Latrell Mitchell back on deck from a quad injury.<\/p>\n

Souths sit on the bottom of the NRL ladder, but a win could lift them above Gold Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Smith‘s milestone 150th game was thrown a curveball after the Rabbitohs star was questioned by police upon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-56774","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\/56774","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=56774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}