RUGBY league bad boy Anthony Watts has been slapped with an eight-week ban for contrary conduct after he was accused of biting a rival's penis.

The Gold Coast Rugby League judiciary handed down the penalty on Tuesday night after a one-hour hearing.

Watts, a former NRL star who now plays for the Tugun Seahawks local league team, was charged with contrary conduct after allegedly biting a Bilambil Jets opponent on the penis during a match on September 1.

TV footage showed the Jets player apparently reeling in pain.



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Watts and Gold Coast rugby league officials emerged from the one-hour hearing on Tuesday night refusing to comment.

An official from Watts' club Tugun Seahawks, who accompanied the league bad boy to the meeting, would say only that the player had received 'a fair hearing'.

Officials said the Queensland Rugby League would be making a statement on Wednesday morning.

But Watts' lawyer, Mark Williams, of Potts Lawyers, confirmed the eight-week suspension.

"Mr Watts has seven days to lodge an appeal and intends on seeking legal advice on this," Mr Williams said.

Watts had denied deliberately biting a Bilambil Jets opponent during a local league match last month.

Mr Williams had earlier told media that while Watts 'absolutely denies that any biting of any nature has taken place ... if there has been any contact made to that particular area of this gentleman's body, our client apologises'.

One league official told The Courier-Mail the alleged victim, who dropped his pants to complain to the referee, suffered a "pretty nasty" wound.

"He'll have to make sure the wound won't get infected. There was some skin removed," he said.

The one-time North Queensland Cowboy and Sydney Rooster was also charged with striking his opponent and was ruled out of last weekend's grand final, win by the Seahawks.

In June, Watts told The Sunday Mail he had abandoned all hopes of resurrecting his NRL career in favour of joining the Finks, which he described as being "like being in a footy team".

His induction to the gang capped a downward spiral including drug and alcohol battles and weapons and assault charges after his elite career slipped away.

Mr Williams said his client played "a full contact professional sport and during play, contact is made to all parts of people's bodies".

"Whether it is real or imagined, contact can occur and that is a very real risk," he said.

An opposition team official, who rejected concerns Finks members intimidated opposition supporters at matches, said Watts was "a quality footballer ... but just a loose cannon".

"It's a shame because he can be a very nice bloke."