“I left the premise (sic) and someone from our party stayed and got into a physical altercation with the security”, he wrote.
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Gold Coast Titans forward Greg Bird moved to clarify an incident he was involved in at a hotel on Saturday.
“The club is aware of an investigation now under way by the NRL Integrity Unit regarding an alleged incident at a hotel in northern NSW last weekend”, he said.
Bird then became involved in a scuffle with bouncers at the Hotel Brunswick, but says he was actually trying to be the peacemaker.
The NRL Integrity Unit is now investigating the incident, visiting the pub to review CCTV footage and interviewing witnesses.
Bird is said to have been on teammate Anthony Don’s bucks night when the representative backrower was involved in an altercation with bouncers at the Hotel Brunswick.
He was sentenced to eight months’ jail, but the conviction was subsequently quashed by an appeal judge. The former NSW backrower was fined after he was caught urinating beside an unmarked police auto during his Byron Bay wedding in 2014.
The charges were eventually dropped because of a lack of evidence.
“The club is aware of an investigation now underway by the NRL Integrity Unit regarding an alleged incident at a hotel in northern NSW last weekend”, it read.
The 31-year-old was stripped of the club co-captaincy, fined $15,000 and told he was on his last warning following that incident.
Two suspensions in 2016 for illegalities took him to a career tally of 31 weeks on the sidelines, which makes him the NRL’s most-suspended current player.
Police are said to be investigating the matter, as are the NRL.
The Titans released the following statement on Wednesday: “The Gold Coast Titans can confirm that NRL Integrity Unit representatives today met with Jarryd Hayne as they previously indicated they meant to do, as part of their normal follow-up to the media reports of last week”.
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In an online Newcastle Herald poll on Wednesday, 58 per cent of recipients said the Knights should not try to sign Bird.
