Payne in vow to repay faith

PAYNE Haas is on his final warning at the Broncos with Brisbane bosses ready to tear up his $3.4m contract if he is embroiled in another off-field scandal.

Haas will be ordered to front a Broncos board meeting this week after the besieged Broncos prop was fined $50,000 by the NRL and hit with a three-game suspension following his bust-up with police last month.

The Broncos board have had enough of Haas’ antics and will place him under the strict conditions to which Tevita

Pangai Jnr was subjected after his bikie barber shop COVID breach last year.

It is the second time the NRL has sanctioned Haas, who was fined $20,000 and slapped with a four-game suspension in 2019 for failing to fully comply with a probe by the governing body.

He has now been fined a total of $70,000 and missed seven games due to poor conduct in a sign NRL officialdom is losing patience with the NSW Origin prop.

The NRL has also ordered Haas to undergo an education program and perform community-service work after he was locked up on January 16 following an alcohol-fuelled altercation with Tweed Heads police.

The 21-year-old said he accepted the punishment handed down by the NRL and will use his ban as a chance to “reflect on his behaviour”.

“I’ve gone to see the police officers involved and apologised for my conduct,” he said.

“I’ve also spent time with police watching the video of what I did that night.

“It has reinforced how poor my behaviour was and that really hit home for me.”

In the aftermath of the incident, Haas has also taken the drastic step of implementing a self-imposed booze ban.