'My head is held high': Israel Folau breaks silence after code of conduct hearing | tomdecent
Rugby star Israel Folau says his “head is held high” and that he is at peace after Tuesday’s verdict that he has committed a high-level breach of Rugby Australia’s professional players' code of conduct and faces the sack.
A three-person independent panel is yet to hand down its punishment to Folau but there is a good chance they will come good on RA’s intention to terminate the 73-Test fullback’s multi-million dollar contract.“I have just had a note from Israel, he won’t mind if I’m sharing it with you because I said to him: ‘hold your head up’," Jones said.
“We sat down the other day and had a long yarn,” Jones said. “In many ways it was very, very sad. We were having a feed … and at one point he just threw his hands gently up in the air and he said: ‘Alan, I don’t know what this is about. What am I supposed to have done here’?”“You mob on the board of Australian rugby and you so-called independent panelists, enjoy your triumph of the last 24 hours, because it’s going to be sorely tested in the weeks and months ahead.
There has been no deadline confirmed on when the submissions have to be handed in or even when a verdict will be handed down.
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