Disgraced Bulldogs star Josh Addo-Carr is set to be sacked by the club after Canterbury served the player with a show cause notice.

The latest development comes after Addo-Carr failed to find another club to move to – with Canterbury’s blessing – following his positive cocaine test last month.

The Bulldogs have issued the former State of Origin member a show cause notice, with his future to be determined when he appears in front of the powerhouse clubs next week. His contract is expected to be terminated after this meeting.

The bombshell revelation from a roadside test on the eve of the Bulldogs’ first NRL final in eight years sent shockwaves through the club and the league.

The NRL issued him with an infringement notice last month after he accepted a $682 fine from NSW Police and a three-month driving ban over the incident following his September 6 road test.

Addo-Carr continued to maintain that he did not know how the cocaine that was detected in a roadside test entered his system, arguing that he had not taken any illicit drugs.

Addo-Carr has also received backlash for misleading Bulldogs officials over the incident and further upsetting club higher-ups over an altercation at last year’s Koori Knockout competition.

Bulldogs supremo Phil Gould is defending Addo-Carr after the star told him the test was inconclusive, but after it became known that was not true, Gould’s support has waned.

“I think he’s still protesting his innocence, but at the end of the day, it’s in his system when he takes the drug test,” Gould said last month.

“How he got there, he needs to sort that out and explain that to the people who matter.

“(The board) may or may not accept my recommendation. They may or may not have a different point of view.”

Addo-Carr was looking at long odds to see out the final year of his $500,000-a-year contract after further analysis of a drug test in early September confirmed a positive for cocaine.

The saga cast a shadow over the Bulldogs’ return to the finals for the first time since 2016, with Addo-Carr opting to miss the knockout final defeat to Manly rather than cause a media circus.

Canterbury’s decision to sign replacement winger Marcelo Montoya earlier this month appeared to be another blow to Addo-Carr’s hopes of staying at the club.

St George Illawarra have been linked with the winger as they look to add speed to their ongoing rebuild.

Dragons coach Shane Flanagan was coy when asked if he was interested in signing the former Kangaroo.

“Our first priority is to wait and see what happens with the Clint Gutherson situation first. Maybe on the runway we’d watch Foxx. He’s a quality player, he’s had a hiccup and we’ll sort it out. But it is not on the immediate radar,” he said.