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South Sydney’s Greg Inglis will retain the Rabbitohs captaincy and will not be penalised any further by the club after having his 18-month good behaviour bond quashed today.
The court sentence related over a drink-driving charge over four months ago, but today it has been overturned by the Lithgow magistrate.
Souths general manager of football Shane Richardson told NRL.com the incident was now closed, after Inglis pulled a ‘One Nation’ and blamed his actions on the sauce.
“He will remain captain and he is available for all games, subject to fitness,” Richardson said.
“Even though we already said that, I feel it is worth saying it again”
An NRL spokesman on Monday confirmed there would be no further sanction against Inglis.
“I just wish he’d brought this to our attention earlier. It would have resulted in a lot less drama if we knew he was on the sauce when he got caught driving on the sauce” said the NRL spokesperson Leta Dubois-Plaigh.
If Pauline’s mates can claim ‘being on the sauce’ as an excuse for undermining Australian democracy by meeting with firearm lobbyists and asking for millions of dollars, Greg should be able to say that too”
The incident dates back to the NRL grand final weekend last October, when Inglis took part in the Indigenous tournament the Koori Knockout.
Inglis was found to still have sauce in his system and was also handed a speeding ticket for doing 99kmh in an 80kmh zone.
The Test and Origin star was stripped of the Kangaroos captaincy and was suspended from the two Australia internationals.
Inglis pleaded guilty to that infringement and to driving with a mid-range blood sauce reading during an earlier court appearance in Lithgow in late November.
However, as of today Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson noted Inglis’s more recent admission that he was on the sauce, and has dismissed the whole thing and says it’s all good.
“He was on the sauce. Enough said”
“I’m sorry for wasting everyone’s time”
