Patrons at pubs on Australia's Central Coast have reportedly been signing into bars using the names of New Zealand rugby league players amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a player's wife saw her husband's name had been signed on a register at a pub, near the team's home base at Terrigal.
The report said the wife "knew for a fact that her husband was not at or had been at the premises''.
Pub patrons are assuming the identities of Warriors' players says the Daily Telegraph. Photo: Photosport
The report said it wasn't the first instance a player's identity had been used, and the Warriors were "privately filthy that their reputations continue to be brought under the microscope for no valid reasons''.
The Warriors were sticking to the NRL's biosecurity rules, and had been "exceptionally well behaved'', the paper said.
The Warriors are, however, facing an investigation after consultant Brett Finch was photographed drinking and smoking a day before joining the team's coaching staff in the coaches' box for last Friday's match against Penrith.
Finch will not be censured by the NRL because he is not a registered Warriors player or official.
The Warriors have been based at Terrigal since late May after completing quarantine at Tamworth after leaving Auckland for the resumption of the NRL season.
Under NRL rules, Warriors personnel can attend a local restaurant, provided it has been cleaned in advance and no other customers are present.
