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UPDATED: Sydney Roosters prop Spencer Leniu has been referred straight to the NRL judiciary for opposite conduct.
The star recruit made alleged racially motivated feedback in opposition to Broncos participant Ezra Mam of their Las Vegas season opener on Sunday.
Broncos gamers allege Leniu known as Mam a “monkey”.
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In keeping with a report from The Sydney Morning Herald, Leniu will now entrance a judiciary listening to to plead his case and a decide an acceptable penalty.
He was positioned on report by referee Adam Gee in the course of the second of two NRL fixtures on Sunday afternoon (AEDT), following a heated on-field incident that left Mam emotional and reportedly in tears.
Mam and his teammates had been heard yelling on the sphere that the front-rower known as the five-eighth a “monkey”.
Put up-match, Leniu was questioned on the alleged feedback by Triple M.
“I feel it is all enjoyable and video games once we’re on the sphere. That is it,” he instructed Triple M.
When requested if he is anxious concerning the doubtless fall out from the alleged incident, Leniu remained coy.
“Not anxious in any respect,” he mentioned.
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Two years in the past, Marcelo Montoya was suspended for 4 matches after being discovered responsible of utilizing a homophobic slur, whereas three years in the past Mitch Barnett escaped sanction after an alleged racial incident with Tyrone Peachey because of a scarcity of proof.
Sunday’s win over Brisbane was Leniu’s first sport for the Roosters, having left the Panthers after final 12 months’s grand remaining win over the Broncos.
Roosters coach Trent Robinson provided restricted touch upon the incident after the sport.
“I can not have any opinion on it, I do not know what occurred,” Robinson mentioned put up match.
Advised within the press convention that Mam was adamant the remark had been made, Robinson mentioned: “That does not imply it is proper, he clearly made the grievance however that does not imply it is proper, it would undergo the formal course of because it ought to.”
The coach added he hadn’t spoken to Leniu concerning the particular incident.
The Roosters held on for an 20-10 win over final 12 months’s grand finalists.