Rabbitohs Sexting

Whilst in the finals of last year’s season, Rabbitohs was involved in a sexting scandal with reports of multiple players revealing themselves in a FaceTime call with a fan. With the woman behind the allegations refusing to take questions, Burgess remains adamant that he wasn’t involved. Shortly after, the club cleared their players of any misconduct charges or breaches of club or league rules.

Matt Lodge

Involved in two incidents in the end of last season and 18/19 offseason, a witness claimed to have seen Lodge strike his ex-girlfriend Charlene Saliba and tell the seven year old grandson of the witness to call Saliba a “bitch”.

Additionally, Lodge reached an agreement with the victims of his assault in New York in 2015 at the end of last year. After kidnapping and terrorising a couple in October of 2015, Lodge avoided jail time in the US, instead serving 200 hours of community service and alcohol/anger treatment.

In June 2018, Lodge agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the victims as a settlement.

Manly Sea Eagles Salary Cap Breach

As a result of breaching the salary cap over the past five years, the Manly Sea Eagles were given a $750,000 fine and a $660,000 penalty to the clubs salary cap for the upcoming season.

Manly CCO Joe Kelly had his registration suspended for 12 months, as did former Manly CEO and current Roosters CEO.