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The players' union have issued the NRL's integrity unit with a please explain over the handling of the Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann investigation, furious the pair have been drug tested.
Rugby League Players' Association bosses contacted the NRL on Wednesday unhappy with the situation, also questioning why the pair were even being investigated at all.
Ponga and Mann remain in the spotlight after they were filmed being escorted out of a toilet cubicle at a Newcastle pub on Saturday night, while both are sidelined through injury.
The NRL have been issued with a please explain after drug testing Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann
The pair were since drug tested on Tuesday, with Ponga's father claiming his son had merely been celebrating the purchase of a house when he fell ill and required Mann's assistance.
RLPA CEO Clint Newton conceded the pair had brought the issue upon themselves, but questioned why the NRL was investigating.
'We've said (to the NRL) we think this is completely flawed,' Newton told AAP.
'What rule have they broken to warrant
