THE Panthers fan at the centre of the investigation into racial abuse directed at South Sydney captain Greg Inglis won’t be welcome back at Panthers Stadium regardless of whether the allegations can be proved.

The NRL Integrity Unit will on Tuesday continue their investigation into the matter at Penrith after Panthers management spoke to a club member on Monday following two days of exhaustive inquiries.

Speaking on Channel Nine’s 100% Footy program on Monday night, Panthers executive general manager Phil Gould gave a detailed account of Penrith’s search for the person responsible and how they would be dealt with.

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Conceding that the matter is complicated as the man identified is denying that he said the racial slur he is accused of, Gould said the club will be taking a hard line stance on any members who behave poorly at Panthers Stadium.

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“Our decision as a club, we know what we’re going to do with this,” Gould said.

“We’re not going to tolerate it, we’re not going to tolerate our members behaving like that near the tunnel in any way shape or form let alone racial abuse of someone like Greg Inglis.

“No one in society should have to put up with that.

Greg Inglis makes his way past Panthers fans and down the tunnel on Saturday. Photo: Mark Kolbe Source: Getty Images

“We’ll deal with it and they won’t be welcome back at our ground.”

Inglis was forced from the field in the 47th minute for a head injury assessment and reported soon after getting into the dressing sheds that he heard someone from the crowd yell a racial slur as he made his way down the tunnel.

The Panthers launched an investigation immediately upon being informed of the allegation but Gould said nothing from the footage they were able to obtain definitively pointed to the person responsible.

“There was nothing on the CCTV vision that gave us any assistance whatsoever,” Gould explained.

“We got all the CCTV vision from our cameras, we got the broadcaster’s cameras to see if there were any reactions in the tunnel, we got from Greg exactly the time that he heard this and when it happened.

“There were security guards and police in the vicinity so we then contacted the security firm.

“Their report came in at 10am and they had a security guard say that they had had a problem with two of the Panther members that were sitting in the proximity of the tunnel.

“One of them was addressed by police on a different matter and another one they felt was the person that made this abuse.

“We’ve since contacted that member and he was interviewed by our management.

“I wasn’t in that meeting, I wasn’t privy to what happened but I understand the information from that meeting has now been sent to the NRL Integrity Unit and they’ll be at Penrith tomorrow (Tuesday) to conduct their own inquiry on it.”