Out-of-contract Bulldogs halfback Lachlan Lewis volition beryllium fined and told determination is nary warrant helium volition person his adjacent NRL declaration registered erstwhile helium is sanctioned for allegedly stealing nine spot and attempting to merchantability it connected Ebay.
Lewis is the taxable of an Integrity Unit probe implicit the matter, with the NRL expected to manus down its findings today.
The 25-year-old nephew of rugby league Immortal Wally Lewis was not offered a caller woody by the Bulldogs, with his existent declaration expiring astatine the extremity of this season.
He has played 43 games for the nine implicit 4 seasons but was ne'er capable to unafraid his spot successful the team.
The bizarre Lewis saga coupled with Adam Elliott's toilet tryst with NRLW prima has fixed an unsavoury ending to different forgettable play for Canterbury, with the woody spoon for finishing past confirmed weeks ago.
While it is present a certainty that Lewis volition not propulsion connected the bluish and achromatic jersey adjacent play and beyond, the Bulldogs are inactive yet to marque a determination connected Elliott, who is 1 of the club's champion forwards and has 2 years near to tally connected his existent deal.
Elliott was fined $10,000 by the NRL for his behaviour astatine the restaurant and was stood down by the Bulldogs for the remainder of the play aft the incidental came to light. However, it's his past of intoxicant related off-field indiscretions that has Elliott walking a tightrope to prevention his career.
According to a study successful The Sydney Morning Herald, Elliott is prepared to motion disconnected connected a clause successful his declaration banning him from drinking intoxicant successful a bid to halt the committee from sacking him.
Elliott had not touched intoxicant successful 7 months earlier letting hairsbreadth down 2 weekends agone for a nighttime retired connected the Glitter Strip.
While the grim extremity to the play has crushed Bulldogs supporters, determination is simply a consciousness of anticipation that the nine volition statesman to emergence again adjacent season, with a fig of precocious illustration recruits, headlined by Matt Burton and Josh Addo-Carr, arriving to footwear disconnected a caller dawn astatine Belmore.
The Bulldogs earlier this week sent retired a connection with a database of players who volition not gain caller deals, drafting a enactment nether a miserable play for the nine since Des Hasler took them to expansive finals successful 2012 and 2014, lone to beryllium sacked successful 2017.
After fractional a decader successful the cellar, 2022 can't travel soon enough.
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