• Former Kangaroos’ scrum-half resigns from Paramatta Eels • Also lost New South Wales job and newspaper column Andrew Johns has lost his third job inside a week as a result of the racial slur that was exposed in the build-up to Wednesday’s State of Origin match. Timana Tahu, the Parramatta Eels centre who walked out of the New South Wales camp in protest at Johns’s racist comment about the Queensland centre Greg Inglis, revealed that the former Australia and Warrington scrum-half has now resigned from his consultancy role with the Eels. Johns resigned from his role on the New South Wales coaching staff last weekend, and has also lost his regular column with the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He has been backed by the Channel Nine television and Triple M radio networks, both of whom will continue to employ him, but the Newcastle Knights are still considering whether to retain him in a similar consultancy role to the one he had at Parramatta. Johns has also been asked to have a mediation session with Tahu, a former Newcastle team-mate, by Australia’s human rights and equal opportunity commissioner, Mick Gooda. Rugby league Andy Wilson guardian.co.uk
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