{"id":479583,"date":"2025-11-12T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479583"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:20:29","slug":"radley-set-for-early-return-despite-mega-10-game-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479583","title":{"rendered":"Radley set for early return despite mega 10-game ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Roosters star V\ufeffictor 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>,\ufeff 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>\ufeff 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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The 27-year-old was not charged by police or accused of any wrongdoing, but \ufeffthe 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 \ufeffthe 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.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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

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

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"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 \ufeffin 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 V\ufeffictor Radley will only serve half of his club-imposed suspension in the NRL season, freeing him to return to the field earlier […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479587,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479583\/revisions\/479587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/479585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}