Deregistered Bulldogs duo Jayden Okunbor and Corey Harawira-Naera have today learnt their fate from the NRL Appeals Committee.
It relates to their suspensions over an incident where the pair allegedly brought schoolgirls back to their hotel room during a pre-season trip to Port Macquarie.
The Appeals Committee overruled the NRLโs decision to cancel each playerโs registration, instead issuing bans and fines.
Okunbor will be suspended for 14 matches, pay a fine of $22,500 and undergo such course of counselling or community service as the NRL CEO may direct.
Harawira-Naera will be be suspended for 10 matches and to pay a fine of $15,000.
โThe NRL took the action which it considered necessary given the serious breaches of the Code of Conduct โ breaches the Appeals Committee also found to be serious,โ NRL Acting CEO Andrew Abdo toldย NRL Media.ย
โThe independent appeals committee has taken a different view on what penalty the players should face and although we are disappointed, we respect the outcome.โ
Appeal result has come in for Jayden Okunbor and Corey Harawira-Naera. Okunbor suspended for 14 Matches, pay fine of $22,500 and undergo such course of counselling or community service as the NRL CEO may direct. Harawira-Naera suspended for 10 matches and pay a fine of $15,000.
— Brent Read (@brentread_7) July 13, 2020
Harawira-Naera could be back next week pending biosecurity advice
— Brent Read (@brentread_7) July 13, 2020
OMG!
So Mitchell Pearce got ……………….
What they did was stupid, immature and immoral but not against law. No criminal charges were laid.
Sivo – Is charged with assault in Fiji – Nothing happens
Curtis Scott – has is tazzed by the cops – assault – Nothing happens
David Fifita – jailed in Bali for assault – nothing happens
Jack Whiton – Blind drunk picking fights with teenagers – assault – nothing happens
Nelson AS – punching on in Bali – Nothing happens
Todd Carney pretends to piss in his own mouth in a toilet – gone
Pearce talks trach about a dog in a private – gets run through the ringer
Yeah good one ZT delete my post because I dare tell it how it is