NSW firebrand Spencer Leniu let his feelings be known after Queensland kicked to the opposite side of the field from a kick-off after he was injected into the action.
Leniu joined the clash in the 30th minute after a Brian To’o try, lining up on the right side of the field ready to take the first carry and stamp his mark on the contest.
Instead, Valentine Holmes kicked to the left and Leniu had some choice words for the Maroons.
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“Spencer has just realised Queensland aren’t going to kick to him from the restart,” commentator Matthew Thompson said before Andrew Johns added: “He is blowing up”.
Leniu’s fiery entry came after he became public enemy number one in Queensland, with Brisbane newspaper The Courier Mail putting a photo of him on the back page.
It was accompanied by the headline: “Smash this Blues grub”.
It comes after Leniu’s verbal spat with Maroons legend Johnathan Thurston at Suncorp Stadium last month, the same venue that hosted the series opener.
Leniu’s hostility centred around Thurston’s comments on the Roosters hard man’s eight-game ban after calling Broncos five-eighth Ezra Mam a “monkey” in Las Vegas last year.
Thurston publicly stated he believed Leniu should have copped a longer suspension and the Roosters prop was met with a wave of boos when he did end up having his first carry.
“This is a moment because the local press have put a bounty on Spencer Leniu’s head this week,” Thompson said.
“There’s the reception from the local crowd.”
