Panthers star under fire over deleted Instagram post

Penrith's Jarome Luai could travel nether scrutiny from the NRL's integrity portion implicit a now-deleted Instagram post, that contained a radical slur.

The five-eighth posted a selfie alongside teammate Jaeman Salmon with the caption 'My N----'.

The NRL said that the integrity portion was alert of the station - which was taken down connected Sunday night.

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"'The NRL Integrity Unit is alert of the post," an NRL spokesperson told Wide World Of Sports.

A censored mentation of Jarome Luai's now-deleted Instagram post. (Instagram)

While helium whitethorn flight with nary punishment, Knights inferior Caitlin Moran was banned for 1 crippled implicit a societal media station conscionable a fewer weeks ago.

It's unclear whether off-field suspensions tin beryllium served successful planetary games, truthful it's apt that the Samoan international, should helium look a suspension, volition service it successful 2023. 

It's been a tumultuous mates of days for Luai since winning the expansive last - footage of him appearing to footwear Isaiah Papali'i during the crippled circulated connected societal media successful the aftermath, but the NRL declined to complaint him implicit the incident.

Papali'i, for his part, downplayed the incidental erstwhile asked astir it, dismissing it arsenic 'a spot of niggle'.

Celebrations person continued connected successful Penrith aft the nine secured its 2nd consecutive NRL title, with prima prop James Fisher-Harris calling this harvest of players the top successful Panthers' history.

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