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Disclaimer: a user on Reddit submitted this list and I thought it deserved a re-post.

Can anyone think of any others to add?
  • Marty Taupau's contract being emailed to a theatre critic in Canada due to a mistyped email address
  • The Tigers sending multiple emails over a long period of time to a Canadian Reddit user named Nathan Brown, also because they mistyped an email address
  • Jarryd Hayne losing thousands in crypto fraud scheme run by prison cellmate, who had previously been convicted of running a crypto fraud scheme
  • Kevin Proctor getting himself fired from the Titans after posting an Instagram story of him vaping in the toilets at half time
  • Mitch Kenny posting about "boxing day lines" on his public Instagram story
  • Martin Kennedy imprisoned for running large scale reptile smuggling scheme
  • Lachlan Lewis stealing a Bluetooth speaker from a club event and selling it on eBay "as a prank"
  • Craig Gower going on a drunken rampage at a charity golf day by groping Wayne Pearce's daughter, chasing Mitch Pearce around with a bottle then vomiting on him, streaking nude around the golf course, stealing a golf cart then crashing it and holding a butter knife to the throat of a radio personality before being pinned by security and arrested
  • Dragons derail their season by hosting a lockdown-breaking BBQ; key moments include Jack de Belin hiding from police under Paul Vaughan's bed and Corey Norman leaving his wallet at the house before running away
  • Nathan Cleary breaks COVID bubble to film TikTok dances
  • Andrew Johns gets slizzered at Toowoomba airport, asks a random woman if she had a c-section before falling asleep on the floor
  • Josh Dugan breaching lockdown to drive to Lithgow
  • Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson skip training to drink vodka cruisers on a roof, post photo evidence on Instagram
  • Todd Carney ends his career when a photo of him pissing into his own mouth leaks
  • Todd Carney gets himself banned from the entire city of Goulburn after jumping on a car in the Goulburn Workers carpark
  • Todd Carney sets his friend's pants on fire while on a camping trip
  • Anthony Watts bites an opponent's penis on-field
  • Julian O'Neill "I just shat in Schlossy's shoe" incident
  • Julian O'Neill "pisses under the blackjack table at the casino" incident
  • Julian O'Neill "set fire to teenager in foam mascot outfit then escape by swimming naked into the Hastings river and hitchhiking away" incident
  • Wests Tigers' elite training facility/demountable shed revealed in much hyped Fox Sports special
  • Jason Taumalolo throwing eggs at cars
  • Russell Packer pissing on field
  • Parramatta board taking and keeping minutes on how exactly they were cheating the salary cap
  • Josh Papali'i driving home drunk then calling the cops on himself
  • Mitchell Pearce gets drunk and humps a dog
  • Joel Monaghan gets drunk and puts his dick in the mouth of a dog
  • Bryce Gibbs hammers a nail through his scrotum at Benji Marshall’s house while Benji is away, using Benji's chopping board
  • Tigers release commemorative ANZAC jersey with a stock photo of Americans on it
  • Nate Myles shits in hotel corridor in "tragic accident", after mistaking the front door for the bathroom door and locking himself out of his room during a bout of drunken diarrhoea
  • Brandon Smith and Cameron Munster get on the bags with randoms in their apartment, photos inevitably leak out
  • Adam Elliott "Sweet Caroline" nude Mad Monday routine exposed
  • Tony Williams quote on Hayne guilty decision: "just want to congratulate the victim and the so called justice system you’ve sent an innocent brotherly to jail away from he’s kids you bunch of flops.. that’s all respectively"
  • Video of Kurt Capewell in gay gloryhole porno leaks, responds by claiming to media and teammates that he didn’t know it was a man on the other side of the hole
  • Dylan Napa filmed wanking while Kane Evans shadow boxes
  • Coach Brad Fittler fines himself $10 000 after attempting to enter a stranger's hotel room drunk and shirtless
  • Fa'amanu Brown blowing up his microwave after reading that microwaving your phone will charge it
  • Valentine Holmes posts selfie of himself holding a bag to his Insta story
  • Josh Papali'i throwing 1 litre bottle of moisturiser at another motorist in road rage incident
  • Harry Grant found passed out in random person's front yard
  • Adam O'Brien yells "don't you know who I am" at Newcastle races seccies after bathroom scuffle
  • The entirety of the Sharks club banned from Cronulla Sailing Club due to multiple scuffles
  • Mal Meninga announces his entry into politics and his retirement from politics all at the single twenty second long press conference
  • Liam Knight sprays insect repellent into his mouth in an attempt to fool a breathalyser into thinking he was sober
  • Kane Evans plays game with "fold some c**t" written on his wrist"
  • Matt Lodge plays game with "****" written on his wrist
  • Terry Hill and Scott Fulton caught poaching lobsters
  • Ponga and Kurt Mann filmed leaving club cubicle together on the night Ponga bought his Newcastle home
  • John Hopoate shoving his finger up the arse of opponent players
  • Chris Sandow crashing a loan car on the way to a game and leaving it there so he wouldn't be late
  • Junior Paulo caught playing third grade club union, attempt at disguising himself by wearing headgear does not work
  • Roosters U20s players trash hotel room and smear their faeces all over the floor and tables
  • Jerome Luai gives the best man speech at Brian To'o's wedding and describes how To'o masturbates in the bathroom
  • Tom Trbojevic loses a footrace to a stranger down the Corso mall, coincidentally pulls up with hamstring issue right after but blames it on a fall in the shower
  • Chris Sandow gets into street fight on New Year's Day in Cherbourg, Queensland
  • Jarryd Hayne does presentation on cyber safety at a high school, somehow accidentally plays porn through the projector
  • Mark Gasnier leaves late night angry voicemail requesting a gangbang on woman's phone
  • James Tedesco punched by a teammate after attempting to proposition his girlfriend
  • Nene Macdonald on Magnetic Island, driving a hire car into a cliff then abandoning it with his ID and open bottles of alcohol in the car
  • An unnamed Cowboys player has an affair with a married staffer in an airport bathroom, husband finds out and is distraught. Cowboys ply him with prescription sleep medication which then gets him fired from his job as a truck driver
  • Darren Lockyer tackling a barman on a night out, threatens to sue the venue after CCTV footage emerges claiming it wasn't him, then has to apologise after more CCTV conclusively proves it was him
  • Beau Falloon texting drug dealer "the season starts now" minutes after the Titans season ends
  • Johnathan Thurston arrested after hassling casino patrons with crutches
  • David Fifita entering a tinder dates fathers room mistakenly and gets chased out with a bat, Titans attempt to keep family quiet by paying for a CCTV system
  • North Sydney Bears players kicked out of the cricket after throwing tomato sauce and a cup of urine on other spectators
  • Souths coach Jason Taylor knocked out by David Fa'alogo after attempting to "karate chop" the second rower, dressed in karate gear on the clubs "Chinese" themed Sad Sunday
  • Mitchell Pearce blows up own wedding by sexting Knights employee days before the event
  • Albert Kelly filmed blind harassing patrons in a U.K McDonald's
  • Greg Bird arrested on his wedding weekend in Byron Bay after urinating near a cop car
  • Glenn Lazarus becomes federal senator representing Clive Palmer's party, which he soon leaves
  • Selwyn Cobbo goes on a podcast and describes his head coach Kevin Walters as not "a good coach, he's not the best coach but he's alright"
  • TPJ breaks lockdown rules to go to a barbershop opening that gets busted in a police gang raid
  • Mark Taufua ges dropped by Wayne Bennett, tweets that he wished he was a player "so I could fold him like my washing"
  • Brad Fittler dropped off unconscious outside Glebe police station, described by a police source as "the drunkest human being ever"
  • Koni Hurrell films himself getting a BJ while driving
  • Craig Gower tries to kiss a man in kings cross, before biting him on the neck vampire style and instigating a brawl
 
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John Elias deserves some mentions, from memory was jailed for weapons and assault. Cant remenber details?
 
I can think of quite a few of just our boys, but won't add to that list!
NRL players just can't help themselves
 
Tricky Trindall getting part of his ear bitten off.
 
I go back a long way but the non-selection in the 1948 Kangaroos of Len Smith. he was captain of Australia but was not selected because he was catholic so it was said.
 
Disclaimer: a user on Reddit submitted this list and I thought it deserved a re-post.

Can anyone think of any others to add?
  • Marty Taupau's contract being emailed to a theatre critic in Canada due to a mistyped email address
  • The Tigers sending multiple emails over a long period of time to a Canadian Reddit user named Nathan Brown, also because they mistyped an email address
  • Jarryd Hayne losing thousands in crypto fraud scheme run by prison cellmate, who had previously been convicted of running a crypto fraud scheme
  • Kevin Proctor getting himself fired from the Titans after posting an Instagram story of him vaping in the toilets at half time
  • Mitch Kenny posting about "boxing day lines" on his public Instagram story
  • Martin Kennedy imprisoned for running large scale reptile smuggling scheme
  • Lachlan Lewis stealing a Bluetooth speaker from a club event and selling it on eBay "as a prank"
  • Craig Gower going on a drunken rampage at a charity golf day by groping Wayne Pearce's daughter, chasing Mitch Pearce around with a bottle then vomiting on him, streaking nude around the golf course, stealing a golf cart then crashing it and holding a butter knife to the throat of a radio personality before being pinned by security and arrested
  • Dragons derail their season by hosting a lockdown-breaking BBQ; key moments include Jack de Belin hiding from police under Paul Vaughan's bed and Corey Norman leaving his wallet at the house before running away
  • Nathan Cleary breaks COVID bubble to film TikTok dances
  • Andrew Johns gets slizzered at Toowoomba airport, asks a random woman if she had a c-section before falling asleep on the floor
  • Josh Dugan breaching lockdown to drive to Lithgow
  • Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson skip training to drink vodka cruisers on a roof, post photo evidence on Instagram
  • Todd Carney ends his career when a photo of him pissing into his own mouth leaks
  • Todd Carney gets himself banned from the entire city of Goulburn after jumping on a car in the Goulburn Workers carpark
  • Todd Carney sets his friend's pants on fire while on a camping trip
  • Anthony Watts bites an opponent's penis on-field
  • Julian O'Neill "I just shat in Schlossy's shoe" incident
  • Julian O'Neill "pisses under the blackjack table at the casino" incident
  • Julian O'Neill "set fire to teenager in foam mascot outfit then escape by swimming naked into the Hastings river and hitchhiking away" incident
  • Wests Tigers' elite training facility/demountable shed revealed in much hyped Fox Sports special
  • Jason Taumalolo throwing eggs at cars
  • Russell Packer pissing on field
  • Parramatta board taking and keeping minutes on how exactly they were cheating the salary cap
  • Josh Papali'i driving home drunk then calling the cops on himself
  • Mitchell Pearce gets drunk and humps a dog
  • Joel Monaghan gets drunk and puts his dick in the mouth of a dog
  • Bryce Gibbs hammers a nail through his scrotum at Benji Marshall’s house while Benji is away, using Benji's chopping board
  • Tigers release commemorative ANZAC jersey with a stock photo of Americans on it
  • Nate Myles shits in hotel corridor in "tragic accident", after mistaking the front door for the bathroom door and locking himself out of his room during a bout of drunken diarrhoea
  • Brandon Smith and Cameron Munster get on the bags with randoms in their apartment, photos inevitably leak out
  • Adam Elliott "Sweet Caroline" nude Mad Monday routine exposed
  • Tony Williams quote on Hayne guilty decision: "just want to congratulate the victim and the so called justice system you’ve sent an innocent brotherly to jail away from he’s kids you bunch of flops.. that’s all respectively"
  • Video of Kurt Capewell in gay gloryhole porno leaks, responds by claiming to media and teammates that he didn’t know it was a man on the other side of the hole
  • Dylan Napa filmed wanking while Kane Evans shadow boxes
  • Coach Brad Fittler fines himself $10 000 after attempting to enter a stranger's hotel room drunk and shirtless
  • Fa'amanu Brown blowing up his microwave after reading that microwaving your phone will charge it
  • Valentine Holmes posts selfie of himself holding a bag to his Insta story
  • Josh Papali'i throwing 1 litre bottle of moisturiser at another motorist in road rage incident
  • Harry Grant found passed out in random person's front yard
  • Adam O'Brien yells "don't you know who I am" at Newcastle races seccies after bathroom scuffle
  • The entirety of the Sharks club banned from Cronulla Sailing Club due to multiple scuffles
  • Mal Meninga announces his entry into politics and his retirement from politics all at the single twenty second long press conference
  • Liam Knight sprays insect repellent into his mouth in an attempt to fool a breathalyser into thinking he was sober
  • Kane Evans plays game with "fold some c**t" written on his wrist"
  • Matt Lodge plays game with "****" written on his wrist
  • Terry Hill and Scott Fulton caught poaching lobsters
  • Ponga and Kurt Mann filmed leaving club cubicle together on the night Ponga bought his Newcastle home
  • John Hopoate shoving his finger up the arse of opponent players
  • Chris Sandow crashing a loan car on the way to a game and leaving it there so he wouldn't be late
  • Junior Paulo caught playing third grade club union, attempt at disguising himself by wearing headgear does not work
  • Roosters U20s players trash hotel room and smear their faeces all over the floor and tables
  • Jerome Luai gives the best man speech at Brian To'o's wedding and describes how To'o masturbates in the bathroom
  • Tom Trbojevic loses a footrace to a stranger down the Corso mall, coincidentally pulls up with hamstring issue right after but blames it on a fall in the shower
  • Chris Sandow gets into street fight on New Year's Day in Cherbourg, Queensland
  • Jarryd Hayne does presentation on cyber safety at a high school, somehow accidentally plays porn through the projector
  • Mark Gasnier leaves late night angry voicemail requesting a gangbang on woman's phone
  • James Tedesco punched by a teammate after attempting to proposition his girlfriend
  • Nene Macdonald on Magnetic Island, driving a hire car into a cliff then abandoning it with his ID and open bottles of alcohol in the car
  • An unnamed Cowboys player has an affair with a married staffer in an airport bathroom, husband finds out and is distraught. Cowboys ply him with prescription sleep medication which then gets him fired from his job as a truck driver
  • Darren Lockyer tackling a barman on a night out, threatens to sue the venue after CCTV footage emerges claiming it wasn't him, then has to apologise after more CCTV conclusively proves it was him
  • Beau Falloon texting drug dealer "the season starts now" minutes after the Titans season ends
  • Johnathan Thurston arrested after hassling casino patrons with crutches
  • David Fifita entering a tinder dates fathers room mistakenly and gets chased out with a bat, Titans attempt to keep family quiet by paying for a CCTV system
  • North Sydney Bears players kicked out of the cricket after throwing tomato sauce and a cup of urine on other spectators
  • Souths coach Jason Taylor knocked out by David Fa'alogo after attempting to "karate chop" the second rower, dressed in karate gear on the clubs "Chinese" themed Sad Sunday
  • Mitchell Pearce blows up own wedding by sexting Knights employee days before the event
  • Albert Kelly filmed blind harassing patrons in a U.K McDonald's
  • Greg Bird arrested on his wedding weekend in Byron Bay after urinating near a cop car
  • Glenn Lazarus becomes federal senator representing Clive Palmer's party, which he soon leaves
  • Selwyn Cobbo goes on a podcast and describes his head coach Kevin Walters as not "a good coach, he's not the best coach but he's alright"
  • TPJ breaks lockdown rules to go to a barbershop opening that gets busted in a police gang raid
  • Mark Taufua ges dropped by Wayne Bennett, tweets that he wished he was a player "so I could fold him like my washing"
  • Brad Fittler dropped off unconscious outside Glebe police station, described by a police source as "the drunkest human being ever"
  • Koni Hurrell films himself getting a BJ while driving
  • Craig Gower tries to kiss a man in kings cross, before biting him on the neck vampire style and instigating a brawl
Boys will be boys. 😂 Lucky there weren't mobile phone cameras around back in the day because this list is undoubtably endless. I'm sure anyone who's played the game could come up with plenty from their junior clubs as well. Great memories ! 🙈🙉🙊
 
Interesting one. I found an old RLW and it had a front page article of Bampton ,God rest his soul, who was livid that he was shown naked in a change room on TV.
 
I feel like I still don’t know what happened with the Bulldogs in Coffs Harbour.
 
what about that Newtown player Paul Heward (?) with the drugs
 
Singo's lackey. Ended up in a Thai prison ,got released then came home and died of AIDS he'd picked up while in prison . Paul Hayward
A very sad story. From memory he was a very good player. Don't get mixed up with drugs.
 
Could add Ryan Tandy to the list of sad stories.
Someone gave me his book.
Very interesting to say the least.
His manager gave money to one of his other clients who was a young player that was only a reserve grader at the time, said put this on the Cowboys to be first point scorers, penalty goal.
Normally a bet like that would have a pool of about 2 grand.
This game it was over thirty grand.
The finding? Tandy was the only one guilty, everyone else had nothing to answer for.
 
1952 GF. Jack Rayner never spoke to that ref again, even though they lived in the same suburb.
 

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