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Victor Radley’s crime was making a fool of Nick Politis

Malcolm Knox Journalist, author and columnist September 19, 2025 — 3.30pm

Text message from Victor Radley to Nick Politis:

Happy Days. Sick c--- you sorted us good man. Yep let me know if you need anything I’ll sort it for ya. Hektic cheers lad.

There is no suggestion that Radley sent this or any other text messages, that he owns a phone, that he has ever consumed cocaine or any other illegal drug, or that he went to the Sunshine Coast in June for a golf weekend and put $900 up his nose without sharing it with his teammates.

Yet for all of these absences of suggestion, Radley, who had the sack waved over him and then withdrawn, put out a public statement apologising “to the club, my teammates, our

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