Pearce pays price for drunken Australia Day incidentSydney Roosters NRL star had already been stripped of captaincyMitchell Pearce has been suspended from the first eight rounds of the original NRL season and fined $125000 for his drunken Australia Day antics.
The NSW and Sydney Roosters star was hit by the ban and a $125000 fine,$50000 of which has been suspended for two years, after 24 hours of heated discussions between Roosters powerbrokers Nick Politis and John Lee and the NRL’s most senior official, and ARLC Commissioner John Grant.
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Source: theguardian.com