The National Rugby League (NRL) has issued Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks player Josh Dugan with a Breach Notice for failing to comply with the game's biosecurity protocols.
The Notice proposes Dugan is fined $50,000 and removed from the club's biosecurity bubble in NSW.
The Notice alleges Dugan drove to Lithgow with a friend on the evening of 20 August, in contravention of the game's Level 4 Protocols.
In considering the proposed penalty, the NRL took into account that the alleged breach was Dugan's second serious contravention of biosecurity protocols in the past 2 months.
The NRL alleges that Dugan has shown a continued failure to comply with the protocols and poses an unacceptable risk to his teammates in the NSW bubble.
Dugan has 5 working days to respond to the Breach Notice.
