Gyles called the 23-year-old front-rower ‘Spencer Luai’ on multiple occasions, most likely getting him confused with Leniu’s former teammate at the Panthers Jarome Luai.News.com.au has approached the NRL for comment about the incident.
“The club remains strong in its position that Spencer did not use the word – the subject of tonight’s hearing – in a racially derogatory way.It’s been the biggest talking point in rugby league for the past two weeks with current players supporting Mam and calling for a monster suspension for an incident that left him distraught and unable to focus on the final 11 minutes of the game.
“I saw him at marker and recall saying words to the effect of ‘run it back at Spencer’,” the statement read. “I heard Ezra Mam say something to me. That’s when I said to him ‘f--- up, monkey’,” Leniu told the panel, with the star recruit to return the week after his side plays Brisbane for the second time.“This game happens so fast. In that split second I said a word that I didn’t know the meaning to. I didn’t know how much that meant to the Indigenous community, Ezra and his family.
The Roosters prop found out just how offensive the slur was the following day at around 6am when an elderly Aboriginal woman sent him the definition of “monkey” and how culturally insensitive the term was.It’s why Leniu wanted to fly to Brisbane to have a face-to-face chat and apologise to the Broncos five-eighth who turned down the offer because he wasn’t ready to confront the Samoan forward.
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