{"id":579529,"date":"2026-04-01T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:35:10","slug":"jump-on-board-why-broncos-leaders-axed-karapani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579529\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jump on board’: why Broncos leaders axed Karapani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane captain Adam Reynolds says the club’s senior leaders took a non-negotiable stance on culture and behaviour to stand down winger Josiah Karapani for one match.<\/p>\n

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Karapani, a shining light in the grand final win last year, was slapped with a $1001 fine by Queensland Police and issued with a public nuisance offence in Fortitude Valley at approximately 3.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He will miss Saturday night’s away clash with Gold Coast as a result.<\/p>\n

“It’s important everyone knows the standards and culture of this club that we are setting is above any player or person in this organisation,” Reynolds said.<\/p>\n

Brisbane Broncos’ Josiah Karapani is tackled by the Hull KR defence.\u00a0Danny Lawson\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Everyone needs to jump on board or you risk facing some time away from the team.<\/p>\n

“Josiah is fully aware of the mistake he has made and is fully apologetic towards the group. I am sure he won’t make that mistake again. He is a big part of our team but unfortunately he won’t be there this week.”<\/p>\n

Reynolds said the leadership group got all the facts on Monday morning before making the tough call.<\/p>\n

Veteran Ben Hunt, also a part of the leadership group, said when you are a Bronco there is no hiding from bad behaviour.<\/p>\n

“It is a huge club here,” Hunt said.<\/p>\n

“It is still in a way a one-club town. I know the Dolphins are here now but there is so much spotlight on this club.<\/p>\n

“You go out and you make a mistake and you are going to get found out. There are some boys still learning some lessons and Kara is one of them.”<\/p>\n

Hunt was also confident Karapani would bounce back.<\/p>\n

“I’ll back him. He is a good kid and was very apologetic,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He came in this week and trained as hard as he could. He will keep working hard and will be back in there at some stage.”<\/p>\n

With winger Grant Anderson out for 10 to 12 weeks with a knee injury, Jesse Arthars has been recalled on the wing and Gehamat Shibasaki moves from the bench to starting centre.<\/p>\n

Reynolds said he was “extremely proud” of the way both Arthars and Shibasaki had handled disappointment on the selection front.<\/p>\n

“Obviously for Jesse to miss out the back end of last year and the first chunk of this season, he hasn’t whinged or carried on,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He has been super professional in the way he has trained and when he has gone back to Q Cup he has been a leader.<\/p>\n

“So too Gehamat. He didn’t kick stones. He got on with life and made sure he trained hard and did everything he could possible to get himself back in the frame.”<\/p>\n

The Broncos have named prop Payne Haas, who missed last week’s win over the Dolphins with a shoulder injury. Brisbane train late Wednesday and Hunt said it was a key session for Haas to get through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane captain Adam Reynolds says the club’s senior leaders took a non-negotiable stance on culture and behaviour to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-579529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579529","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=579529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}