Sydney Chickens prop Spencer Leniu has affirmed he will concede in actuality direct charge evened out against him during Cycle 1 in Las Vegas.
The NRL have additionally affirmed the legal executive hearing will be presented to Monday night after an application got from the Chickens. During the challenge in Las Vegas, play was stopped and Leniu was put on report for a supposed racial slur against Brisbane Mustangs native fullback Ezra Mam.
The star five-eighth submitted the question to arbitrator Adam Well who told Chickens’ commander James Tedesco he had heard nothing, however was putting the occurrence on report to be researched.
An accuse of opposite lead of an immediate reference to the legal executive was then affirmed by the match survey board on Monday. Leniu, who up to this point has held his quiet with the exception of a short meeting with Triple M Radio after the game where he named the occurrence “all silly buffoonery on the field” and guaranteed he had “nothing to stress over”, has now spoken in a club proclamation affirming he has confessed. The prop apologized to Mam and said he never implied it in a bigoted manner.
“I need to apologize to Ezra and his family for utilizing the word I did and I’m earnestly sorry to cause him such pain,” Leniu said in the explanation. “I’ve put my hand up and need to take responsibility for. I gave the signal yet I didn’t mean it in a bigoted manner.
Anybody who realizes me realizes that is not who I’m.” Chickens’ Chief Joe Kelly said the club likewise apologizes to Mam. “Spencer has been totally transparent in the interim, and we will keep on supporting him,” Kelly said.
“We stretch out our most profound statements of regret to Ezra, his family and the more extensive Native and Torres Waterway Islander people group and proposition our help to all gatherings during this time. “We regard the Legal executive interaction. In like manner, the Club won’t offer any further remark preceding the conference.”
