Paul Gallen has put South Sydney on blast and says Latrell Mitchell should be "dirty" if the club tries to impose a monetary fine or suspension on him.Gallen doubled down on his criticism of the Rabbitohs after first accusing the club of not dealing with Mitchell properly on Monday night's 100% Footy. Mitchell fronted the club board last week after an image was leaked of him bent over a table with what appears to be a white substance in front of him. The photo was allegedly taken in a Dubbo hotel room the weekend prior. Mitchell remains sidelined with a foot injury and will not play again this season. It is the latest indiscretion for the Bunnies superstar, who is reportedly earning $1.2 million a season from the NRL club. "I'm not trying to bag Latrell here... he put himself in a situation he probably shouldn't have been in, he's got to accept responsibility for that," Gallen said on Wide World of sports' 2GB radio on Tuesday. "But this is just a vicious circle, this is what happens every time - he does something silly or says something silly, gets suspended, does something stupid, the whole world jumps on him. "Then he comes back, plays football the way we all know he can play, becomes the best player in the game, does crazy things that other people can't do, then all of a sudden what do we want to do? We want to interview him again. "So we interview him again, the media get involved, we start asking him about this and that and then Latrell says things like 'I'll do what I want, I'll say how I want'... then what happens, it's like a vicious circle." Gallen says the onus needs to be on South Sydney. "I don't mind if he says that, but privately someone at the South Sydney club - the captain or the coach - is getting hold of him and telling him the way it should be, but I don't think that happens at South Sydney," Gallen said.
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