When he wants to, Jarryd Hayne can display the outward emotion of an Easter Island statue.

He’s done it in press conferences after State of Origin matches, win or lose. He’s done it when the result at the NRL judiciary hasn’t gone his way. He’s done it when he’s fronted Kings Cross police station after someone’s tried to shoot him following a drunken argument at McDonald’s as they did in 2008. He’s even done it when announcing he’s signed with the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL.

Stony-faced: Jarryd Hayne arrives at court at Burwood on Monday. Credit:Jessica Hromas

And there he was on Monday morning, the crestfallen football superstar, expressionless and unreadable as ever as he emerged from a gun-metal grey Toyota RAV4 and elbowed his way through a phalanx of reporters and cameramen into Burwood Local Court.

Hayne’s veteran manager, Wayne Beavis, 77, was in tow, as he has been for most of Hayne’s career since Beavis went to Sydney’s western suburbs and found a 16-year-old in possession of a killer sidestep and promptly signed him.