{"id":139614,"date":"2021-10-05T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=139614"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:00:56","slug":"unthinkable-move-that-brought-storm-trio-undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=139614","title":{"rendered":"'Unthinkable' move that brought Storm trio undone"},"content":{"rendered":"

NRL great Paul Gallen says the Melbourne Storm trio are "lucky" to have escaped with a relatively lenient punishment following the white-powder video scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cameron Munster, Brandon Smith and Chris Lewis were each suspended for one match and fined a total of $49,000, after a video emerged of the three players in a hotel room with a white substance on the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Munster was hit the hardest, with a $30,000 fine, while Smith was fined $15,000 and Lewis $4000.<\/p>\n

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The club imposed additional sanctions, however those fines were suspended.<\/p>\n

Storm CEO Justin Rodski revealed yesterday that the trio were not drug tested after the incident came to light.<\/p>\n

Speaking on 2GB's Wide World of Sports radio program, Gallen agreed with host Mark Levy, who called the club's response "pathetic."<\/p>\n

"I love arguing with you, but I can't go against you," Gallen said.<\/p>\n

"The fact is, I was a former player, so I don't like seeing players get in trouble. They've done it to themselves, I understand that.<\/p>\n

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"But they're risk takers by nature, they've taken a big risk, they done something very silly, they've been called out for it.<\/p>\n

"The person who took the video, I don't know if he's going to be punished, but I think he's a dog."<\/p>\n

Gallen said the players have to be alert to the fact they're in a vulnerable position.<\/p>\n

"These blokes have put themselves in a stupid situation, it's unthinkable really, how drunk they were to put themselves in that situation with people who would do that to them.<\/p>\n

"What's enough? That's the question I've got to ask."<\/p>\n

In 2016, then Roosters captain Mitchell Pearce was fined $125,000 – $50,000 of which was suspended – and banned for eight matches after simulating a sex act with a dog at an Australia Day house party.<\/p>\n

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Most now regard that penalty as grossly excessive, especially in light of subsequent sanctions that have been handed down.<\/p>\n

"They're very, very lucky," Gallen said of the Melbourne trio.<\/p>\n

"The fines they've been given, they're lucky. I wrote something silly on social media many years ago and got fined $50,000 for that. Mitchell Pearce, it was insane what he got fined and the amount of games he was suspended for.<\/p>\n

"I understand people's frustration in what's happened. What the boys did was stupid (and) idiotic, but it's done now."<\/p>\n

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