The Roosters may find it inconvenient, but, it’s an inconvenient truth.

Their former player, Brandon Smith, now at arch-rivals South Sydney, is accused of supplying drugs to the Roosters’ favourite son Victor Radley, a local lad made good.

It’s a fact that Smith has been issued a summons by Strike Force Maxima, a Queensland Police organised crime task force. It’s also a fact that Radley’s name is on the summons.

This isn’t an accusation from a beat copper outside a nightclub who suspects something is in someone’s pocket. Or a grainy video released by a duplicitous friend. This is from an organised crime task force, whose methods centre around observing individuals and monitoring and intercepting communications.

In this instance, they have, at the very least, the contents of the alleged drug dealers’ phone as well as what they found on Smith’s phone at the Gold Coast airport when he arrived with Rabbitohs teammates to play the Titans in early August. Sources speaking on the condition of anonymity because they did not have permission to discuss the issue publicly have told this masthead they have more.

Yet, if you listened to Roosters coach Trent Robinson’s press conference on Thursday ahead of their Friday clash with the Storm, you may have been left wondering........

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