Exiled rugby union star Israel Folau's potential return to rugby league has hit a roadblock
Fox Sports is reporting that the league could block the Tongan Rugby League's attempt to make him available for the Tests against Great Britain and Australia.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a call will be be made on Thursday.
And Wests Tigers veteran Benji Marshall believes it's double standards by the league in allowing domestic violent offenders to return to the league and not Folau.
“It doesn’t faze me if he’s allowed or he’s not allowed to play. I definitely don’t agree with the things he’s said, but to me, I think we need to decide what we forgive and what we forget,” Marshall said on NRL 360.
“Because I see, and this is my personal opinion, I see domestic violence as worse than what Israel did. I don’t agree with that, and yet we let people who have done those actions come back into our game.
“So where do we sit now with what’s right and what’s wrong?”
Journalist Paul Kent is startled by the prospect that Brisbane's Matt Lodge can be welcomed back into the league and touted as a potential captain following his New York rampage.
“I find it extraordinary, on one hand we’ve got a player who kicks in a door, threatens to kill everyone inside, has a nine-year-old boy hiding in the bathtub asking if this is the night he’s going to die,” Kent said.
“He’s now being considered as the captain of the team, and on the other hand we have a guy who comes out and puts a post on social media saying that if you don’t repent because you’re certain things you’re going to hell, and we just say, ‘mate, can’t have this in our game’.”