Former New South Wales Blues captain Paul Gallen has unloaded on the South Sydney Rabbitohs for what the legend perceives as preferential treatment of Latrell Mitchell.

Mitchell was sensationally photographed in an image that has since gone viral of him standing over a white substance in a Dubbo motel.

“He has got no one at South Sydney saying hang on Latrell… you’re the highest paid player… you’re the best player at this club, we need you here to support the boys, we need you here to get us out of this rut, we need your help,” Gallen said on 2GB.

“No one does that at South Sydney – they just let him do what he wants and they always have.

“So now when they try to turn it back, he’s going to say “wait on a sec, you’ve always let me do it”.

“It’s going to take Wayne Bennett to come in there and change it because no one else has had the balls to stand up to Latrell and say, “no Latrell you can’t do this”.

“No one has done that and look where they are now.

“He’s always done it his way and good luck changing it.”

Mitchell is currently out with a foot injury.