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We need to stand by our boys.
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Exactly Jaxx. New Rooster or old Rooster, guilty or innocent, Spencer needs our support.
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Freddy on the Latrell and Hines social media campaign to crucify Leniu:
Fittler, who coached both players at Origin level and has been a strong proponent of Indigenous issues in the game, believes the commentary is out of line.
“Why doesn’t everyone ring Ezra? Why does everything have to be done on social media?” Fittler said.
“The NRL has rules where you can’t come out and make comments about situations that are going to judiciary. So they should be in trouble. If you want to support Ezra, ring him up. Go and see him. That’s how you support someone.”
The NRL has not made any official approach to players or their clubs that have commented on the Leniu saga, and no sanctions for doing so are planned.Comment
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6.25pm: The hearing has opened in sensational fashion with NRL legal counsel Lachlan Gyles reading an exert of a 12 paragraph statement from Broncos five-eighth Mam about the incident.
Gyles said that Mam has asked that eight paragraphs of the statement remain confidential due to the sensitive nature of their contents.
However, he read the rest of the statement in which Mam accused Leniu of saying to him, “f*** you, you monkey.”
"I saw Spencer Leniu at marker and I recall saying the words to the effect of 'run it back at Spencer'
"I then recall Spencer Leniu saying the words 'f*** up, you monkey."
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6.33pm: Leniu has pleaded guilty but there is dispute between Gyles and Leniu’s counsel James McLeod about when the comments were made.
Gyles has shown vision from four camera angles of the incident, which followed a tackle by Leniu on Broncos prop Payne Haas.
He said the pair were about four metres apart at the time but McLeod insisted the incident occurred during the play the ball.
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6.35pm: Mam can be heard on the audio from referee Adam Gee’s microphone saying: He f****** called me a monkey”.
Haas yells: “He called him a monkey”.
Gee then asks Mam: “Do you want to make a formal complaint”.
Mam said: “Yes I do”.
Gee then calls over rival captains James Tedesco and Adam Reynolds.
“Ezra has made a formal complaint against Spencer that is racial in nature.
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I'm surprised Mam could manage to write so many paragraphs, let alone know what a paragraph is.Originally posted by King Salvo View Post
Whoops, that probably makes me a racist.1985: 1 try vs Parramatta, 1 try vs Manly, 1 try vs Wests, 2 tries vs Souffs
1986: 2 tries vs Illawarra, 1 try vs Balmain, 2 tries vs Norths.Comment
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6.47pm: Leniu is giving evidence under examination by McLeod.
“I was making a tackle on Payne Haas. Ezra Mam said something to me at the time and that’s when I said ‘f*** up monkey’.
“I am so sorry that I used that word I said that to Ezra and I made him feel little. This game goes so fast and, in that split second I said a word I shouldn’t have.
“I didn’t know how much that word means to the Indigenous community.
“I thought it was one grow man sledging another grown man. In my circle that is so common and I didn’t know how much that word meant to Ezra and to all the Indigenous people in the game.
“I am glad he bought it up. I am really sorry to Ezra and his people.
“I don’t think we would have the game we do without Indigenous people.”
Leniu says he will never use the word in that context to “a dark-skinned person”.
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Only if it was written in black pen.Originally posted by Carlos Parra View PostFVCK CANCERComment
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6.56pm: Leniu said he regretted post-match comments said to the media about the incident being “banter” and “fun and games”, as well as a run in with Broncos forward Pat Carrigan at the Las Vegas hotel where the teams were staying.
However, he said he came to realise how offensive his words were the following day.
“I was copping a lot of backlash after the game. 6.30am the next morning an older Aboriginal women sent me the definition of what monkey means to their people.”
Under cross examination from Gyles, Leniu said he was unaware of incidents in other sports where players have been called an “ape” or a “monkey”, including Adam Goodes.
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7.00pm: Gyles said Mam should be commended for his courage in standing up and he has been supported by other Indigenous players.
“Now it is possible that the player may not have appreciated the term monkey is a racial term," Gyles said.
“I would submit that most people and having been in Australia for 15 years would be aware that being called a monkey is a racial term.”
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The NRL council just asked the judiciary to consider an 8 week suspension.Comment
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7.06pm: Gyles called for a suspension of eight matches to send a strong message about racism.
By finding he knew monkey was a racist term doesn’t mean he is a racist by nature.
“But one of the things the tribunal has to do is make sure players are safe, so it is a pretty important matter.
“When rugby league broke away from rugby union in 1908 it was an egalitarian game and was open for all.
"The Roosters team of 1908 had an indigenous player, George Green, who was the game's first Indigenous player.
“This tribunal has a duty to send a strong message. It is an opportunity to draw a line in the sand.”
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7.12pm: McLeod said Leniu had pleaded guilty to contrary conduct but did not use the term in a racist manner.
“There was no racial intent. That puts it in the medium category of contrary conduct," he said.
"He was genuine, he was honest in his very poor use of a word but not one that was made on racial intent.
"He made a really bad mistake, one that has caused pain and hurt, but it wasn’t motivated by race.”
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