{"id":46358,"date":"2025-08-05T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46358\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:34:08","slug":"wests-tigers-offensive-gesture-to-bulldogs-fans-formal-warning-brent-naden-breach-notice-over-khod-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46358\/","title":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers offensive gesture to Bulldogs fans formal warning, Brent Naden breach notice over \u2018khod\u2019 video, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Wests Tigers players have been given warnings and winger Brent Naden an additional sanction over offensive gestures towards Bulldogs fans.<\/p>\n<p>Samuela Fainu, Latu Fainu and Brent Naden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-bulldogs-complaint-about-tigers-players-arab-middle-finger-gesture-samuela-fainu-latu-fainu-brent-naden-round-22\/news-story\/46f32945f0a66b08ebdbc5f6a3067908\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">made a gesture known as the \u2018khod\u2019 or \u2018khwad\u2019<\/a> after a try against the Bulldogs on the weekend. The gesture is offensive within the Arabic community, essentially meaning \u201cget f***ed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL announced on Wednesday morning that the three players had been given a formal warning about their on-field conduct.<\/p>\n<p>FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=nrl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRL acknowledges that these actions caused, or had the potential to cause, offence to members of the NRL community,\u201d an NRL statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Naden copped an additional breach notice, with a potential fine or even suspension in the works; leading reporter Phil Rothfield has tipped a fine.<\/p>\n<p>Naden again made the gesture in a video that appeared on social media after the same, at the same time saying: \u201cKhod, f***ing Dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notice alleges that Naden\u2019s conduct following the Wests Tigers match on 3 August 2025 contravened the NRL Code of Conduct. The Player will have five days to respond to the breach notice,\u201d the NRL statement said.<\/p>\n<p>TIgers players make the offensive gesture.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have a large number of Lebanese players, including Adam Doeuihi, Alex Twal and Tony Sukkar.<\/p>\n<p>Sukkar was in the try celebration, but did not use the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>CODE Sports spoke with a \u201cMiddle Eastern rugby league identity\u201d after the incident, who said: \u201cThat hand signal is a highly offensive insult. It means \u2018get f***ed\u2019. I have never made that gesture to anyone \u2013 that\u2019s how offensive it is. It\u2019s much worse than giving the middle finger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dogs livid with Tigers &#8216;derogatory&#8217; cele | 00:43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Wests Tigers players have been given warnings and winger Brent Naden an additional sanction over offensive gestures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,36986,39959,763,39958,39957,85,39956,38333,38337,4515],"class_list":{"0":"post-46358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-breach-notice","11":"tag-formal-warning","12":"tag-fox-league","13":"tag-notice-alleges","14":"tag-offensive-gestures","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tigers-legend","17":"tag-tigers-players","18":"tag-try-celebration","19":"tag-wests-tigers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}