'Unthinkable' move that brought Storm trio undone

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NRL large Paul Gallen says the Melbourne Storm trio are "lucky" to person escaped with a comparatively lenient punishment following the white-powder video scandal.

Cameron Munster, Brandon Smith and Chris Lewis were each suspended for 1 lucifer and fined a full of $49,000, aft a video emerged of the 3 players successful a edifice country with a achromatic substance connected the table.

Munster was deed the hardest, with a $30,000 fine, portion Smith was fined $15,000 and Lewis $4000.

The nine imposed further sanctions, nevertheless those fines were suspended.

Storm CEO Justin Rodski revealed yesterday that the trio were not cause tested aft the incidental came to light.

Speaking connected 2GB's Wide World of Sports vigor program, Gallen agreed with big Mark Levy, who called the club's effect "pathetic."

"I emotion arguing with you, but I can't spell against you," Gallen said.

"The information is, I was a erstwhile player, truthful I don't similar seeing players get successful trouble. They've done it to themselves, I recognize that.

"But they're hazard takers by nature, they've taken a large risk, they done thing precise silly, they've been called retired for it.

"The idiosyncratic who took the video, I don't cognize if he's going to beryllium punished, but I deliberation he's a dog."

Gallen said the players person to beryllium alert to the information they're successful a susceptible position.

"These blokes person enactment themselves successful a anserine situation, it's unthinkable really, however drunk they were to enactment themselves successful that concern with radical who would bash that to them.

"What's enough? That's the question I've got to ask."

In 2016, past Roosters skipper Mitchell Pearce was fined $125,000 - $50,000 of which was suspended - and banned for 8 matches aft simulating a enactment enactment with a canine astatine an Australia Day location party.

Most present respect that punishment arsenic grossly excessive, particularly successful airy of consequent sanctions that person been handed down.

"They're very, precise lucky," Gallen said of the Melbourne trio.

"The fines they've been give, they're lucky. I wrote thing silly connected societal media galore years agone and got fined $50,000 for that. Mitchell Pearce, it was insane what helium got fined and the magnitude of games helium was suspended for.

"I recognize people's vexation successful what's happened. What the boys did was anserine (and) idiotic, but it's done now."

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