Panthers prima Apisai Koroisau says helium has brought "shame and embarrassment to galore people" successful the aftermath of the latest NRL COVID-19 bubble breach.
Koroisau has been suspended for 2 matches and fined $35,000 implicit an incidental during the caller State of Origin series.
The NRL claims Koroisau attended the edifice country of an idiosyncratic who was not portion of the team's biosecurity bubble connected June 27.
"I made the prime to bash the incorrect happening and my actions person brought shame and embarrassment to galore people, particularly my woman and children. I volition beryllium everlastingly sorry," Koroisau said successful a statement.
"I sincerely apologise to the NRL, NSW Rugby League, Panthers, the sponsors and stakeholders, and each my teammates for letting you down.
"I apologise to the fans for putting our crippled astatine risk, peculiarly astatine specified a challenging clip for truthful galore people."
The 28-year-old acknowledged the wounded the incidental has caused his wife.
"I apologise to my woman Amy for the symptom I person caused. I've wounded you and the girls with my selfish, thoughtless actions," helium said.
"I'm determined to go a amended partner, begetter and protector, and hopefully rebuild trust, and gain backmost your emotion and our family.
"I volition enactment hard each time moving guardant to amusement my wife, my children, my squad and the rugby league assemblage that I americium not defined by my mistakes and I volition turn from this."
In the aforesaid statement, Koroisau's wife, Amy, said she's been devastated by the incident.
"While determination person been immoderate achy lies and misrepresentation successful definite media reports, I don't deliberation it is successful the champion interests of our household to prosecute with it," she said.
"Api is simply a large dada and though this has wounded maine immensely I person nary uncertainty helium volition enactment the indispensable strategies successful spot to larn from this and amended who helium is."
NRL main enforcement Andrew Abdo said measures are being enactment successful spot to forestall a repeat.
"All nine hotels, nether quarantine orders, are presently fenced disconnected from the nationalist and patrolled by information 24 hours a day,'' helium said.
"We are taking each precaution to guarantee determination is nary breach of the protocols and to support the Queensland assemblage safe.
"The situation has rapidly changed since this breach and players recognize the consequences of failing to comply with the protocols."
The Panthers said successful a connection it supported the sanctions imposed by the NRL.
"Apisai has expressed genuine remorse for his actions and understands the imaginable ramifications of his decisions connected the viability of the game," the nine said.
The NRL indicated the punishment would person been much severe, nevertheless it took into relationship the breach took spot anterior to much caller breaches, including the infamous St George Illawarra BBQ.
It's the aforesaid punishment handed to Queensland's Jai Arrow after helium breached protocols during the State of Origin series.
News of Koroisau's punishment comes connected the aforesaid time Queensland's main wellness serviceman Jeanette Young says she's "very close" to ending the hub agreement with the NRL.
"I'm very, precise acrophobic astir what is happening with these NRL players," she said.
"This is excessively risky. We conscionable cannot person radical deliberately breaching the rules."
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