BREAKING NEWS: The head coach of the Brisbane Broncos has terminated his employment with the team today……….
Mam, a proud Torres Strait Islander, spoke for the first time on Tuesday since Leniu called him a monkey in the round-one clash in Las Vegas.
Mam made an official complaint about Leniu’s comments on the field and Leniu was subsequently suspended by the NRL judiciary for eight games.
Asked if he had any regrets about the way he handled the situation, Mam said “no'”.
Mam rejected an earlier offer from Leniu to meet with him in Brisbane in the lead-up to the judiciary hearing but said he would be prepared to do so in future.
“I think when the time is right we will have a chat,” Mam said.
“I appreciate that he wanted to come up and reach out to me. I have moved on from that now and I will probably have a chat to him when I see him, or whenever it is.”
Mam received huge support from the Broncos club and his teammates after the incident, along with current Indigenous stars Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker and past greats Lote Tuqiri and Steve Renouf.
“It was definitely a huge thing for other players to come out on behalf of me and reach out to me,” he said.
“It lifted me up and lifted my spirits up. It’s good to see all the Indigenous and non-Indigenous players reach out to me. I will just play good footy now, it was a long time ago.
