Club Statement: Spencer Leniu - Leniu enters Guilty Plea

[Mr Whippet]

So here we are.....tensioning our necks awaiting the guillotine to fall.

[Billy Gunn]

I see this heading towards a six week ban - half way between what the prosecutor has asked for and what the defence says is reasonable. I suspect this was decided long ago.

The media have been magically saying 6-8 weeks

[Carlos Parra]

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”.

What a load of concocted cuck shyte.

Next they'll have us believe that "Indigenous people" have known about monkeys for 65,000 years.

[Bates]

Speaks volumes about how great our club is if true.

[QWERTY]

7.46pm: The hearing has adjourned while the panel deliberates to determine the length of Leniu's ban.

Thanks for the updates Salvo

[King Salvo]

Either still deliberating or stretching it out for O/T payments

[QWERTY]

Spencer out for 8 weeks. Surprised with that, I thought it would been struck down to 6

[King Salvo]

Leniu has been suspended for 8 games

[tloos1999]

Laughable. Shouldn’t of even apologised - the 8 week suspension was already determined once that self obsessed clown Latrell had a whinge.

[Kentucky_Fried_Rooster]

8 weeks seems a bit hash
I was expecting 4

[Waylander]

He’s copped 8 games. That’s ludicrous. He should take it to the sporting appeals tribunal.

[Thirteen]

He won’t play v Broncos in Round 9.

Lucky Mam.

[Crab]

Leniu has been suspended for 8 games

The beginning of the end of the great game of NRL ..

[Danish]

Yep so worthwhile the club forcing that garbage PR apology and building essentially zero case in his defence.

either he should have been advised to simply deny the entire thing, or bring witnesses to whatever shit Mam was saying to him in the lead up. Instead we get this grovelling shit from the club casting Leniu to the wolves meekly begging for leniency and now he’s rubbed out for a third of the season for calling someone a monkey.

**** this garbage code

[King Salvo]

Leniu is suspended for eight games

And deliberations have wrapped up after 40 minutes.

The panel issues Spencer Leniu an eight-game suspension for contrary conduct, making note of his remorse and attempts to apologise to Ezra Mam.