Report: Israel Folau's punishment decided in unanimous verdict

Israel Folau’s fate has reportedly been decided.

According to a Daily Telegraph report, all three members of an independent panel tasked with deciding his punishment have agreed with Rugby Australia that his contract should be terminated.

The official announcement will reportedly be made on Wednesday or Thursday.

Last week, the fundamentalist Christian was found to have committed a high-level code of conduct breach for an Instagram post that said hell awaited “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers” and others.

The three-member panel of John West QC, Kate Eastman SC and John Boultbee AM decided the controversial posts left him open to having his four-year, $4 million contract torn up.

Since announcing Folau’s breach, the panel has been considering written submissions from both the player’s legal team and Rugby Australia.

Both parties have a right of appeal, meaning the most divisive matter in Australia could drag on for weeks and months yet.

‘Satan’s work’

On Sunday, Folau revealed how he resisted the “temptation” of a peace offering from Rugby Australia that would have allowed him to resurrect his playing career.

The troubled Wallabies star described his fallout with the governing body as “challenging” and spoke of being tempted by the “opportunity” to rekindle his career with the NSW Waratahs and Wallabies during a Sydney church address.

But, in a video of him speaking at a church service on Sunday afternoon, Folau insisted the process was not finished and the “outcome is yet to be known”.

“Potentially I could get terminated, which means that there’s no more playing contract and therefore no more finances or money coming in,” he said from the lectern.

“It would be the first time it has happened to me in my life.

“All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me.

“It’s been really challenging but also it’s been encouraging to myself to see what my God is actually doing.”

It’s understood Super Rugby’s all-time leading try-scorer would have been allowed to resume playing again had he agreed to take down his latest controversial post.

“There have been many opportunities to potentially make the situation a little bit easier. I could go back and play the game, get everything back to the way it used to be,” Folau said.

“The way Satan works is he offers you stuff that could look good to the eye and makes you feel comfortable, and if you follow that path all the worries and troubles will go away.

“(But) it is always the will of God that comes first.”

with AAP