Josh Addo-Carr plans to make himself available for selection for the second week of the finals should Canterbury progress past Manly on Sunday.
Addo-Carr has volunteered to stand himself down from the Accor Stadium clash with the Sea Eagles to spare the club adverse publicity after allegedly returning a positive result to a roadside drug test on Friday night.
The lawyer acting Addo-Carr said his client maintains he did not take illegal drugs and has raised questions about potential “irregularities” during the testing process. This masthead revealed that police were unable to follow usual roadside drug-testing procedures because officers received an urgent call to an attempted home invasion.
After allegedly testing positive to the first test, police required the premiership-winning winger to take a second. It could take up to three months for the results of the second test to be returned.
Sources close to Addo-Carr, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the delicate nature of the situation, said the winger wants back into the side should a win against Manly keep alive its premiership campaign.
Should that transpire, the Bulldogs will need to make a call on whether to slot their strike flanker back into coach Cameron Ciraldo’s team.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Canterbury general manager Phil Gould was asked if the club would have stood Addo-Carr down had it known he allegedly tested positive in the first test.
“That’s an interesting question,” Gould said.
