Thompson’s exit from Warriors not linked

Bodene Thompson almost certainly won’t be at the Warriors in 2018.

Thompson is off contract at the end of next month, and he is unlikely to be offered a new deal by the club.

The situation is unrelated to yesterday’s stories in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper which detailed his relationship with a former stripper and Penthouse model Belinda Medlyn, although the allegations didn’t cast Thompson in a particularly favourable light.

The pair conceived a child during the 2015 season, after meeting via a social media site in 2014, when he was at Wests Tigers.

The stories allege Thompson and some of his Tigers teammates engaged in group sex with Medlyn during the 2014 season.

Medlyn told the Telegraph it was her belief NRL players used group sex sessions as a form of team bonding.

The newspaper said Thompson — who joined the Warriors at the start of the 2015 season — had arranged for Medlyn to come to his hotel room the night before the Warriors’ last game of the 2015 season, even though he shared the room with a teammate, who was not involved in the activity.

The Warriors lost narrowly to the Bulldogs the following day — they had led with less than three minutes to play before a late James Graham try — for their eighth successive defeat. In that game Thompson registered 12 runs for 100 metres, with 19 tackles.

The club offered Thompson a new contract early this season, which the former Kiwis squad member chose not to take up, and there is no offer on the table.

He made two errors and had two missed tackles.

The Warriors were made aware of the 2015 incident earlier this year, and Thompson was disciplined at the time for breaching team protocol.

The NRL Intergrity Unit were also notified about the matter but it’s understood the unit is not actively investigating it.

The Warriors are satisfied there are no other issues to be addressed, as there is no suggestion the activity between Medlyn and Thompson was