Kalyn Ponga's role as co-captain of the Knights is in no jeopardy for the time being but two of his team-mates have been stood down for being late for the team bus the morning after their loss to Brisbane.
Amid speculation that Ponga may be stripped of the leadership after video emerged of he and Kurt Mann being asked to leave a toilet cubicle over the weekend, Knights football director Peter Parr was adamant it was "way too early" for any call to be made on the captaincy.
"We are aware of the video, we contacted the NRL Integrity Unit so they'll now run the process and we will support them in that," Parr said.
"We've spoken to the players but that will remain confidential at the moment until the Integrity Unit has run their process.
"The Integrity Unit will also speak with the players and then we'll establish all the facts and make some decisions after that once we know exactly what happened.
"We haven't discussed any punishment yet because we don't know if there's any punishment to be had.
"My information is that Kalyn has not been told by any of the medical staff that he couldn't drink and we haven't established yet exactly how much he had so right at the moment we are open-minded about the whole situation.
"Just because it's not a good look doesn't straight away mean that somebody has done anything wrong so let's let the process run its course and see what happens after that.
"The world has changed a lot and the players have had another reminder of that over the weekend and you'd like to think that these sorts of things don't happen where people are taking photos and videos but at that's the modern world and they have to accept that."
Parr did confirm that centre Bradman Best and winger Enari Tuala had been stood down from NRL duties this weekend to play NSW Cup for not meeting team standards.
"Both of them were late for the team bus on Sunday morning in Brisbane. They weren't late by a long period of time but we just believe that they didn't meet the standards necessary so Adam [O'Brien] and I along with the other coaching staff thought the best thing to do on this occasion was to stand them down," Parr said.
"Adam was in complete agreeance that it didn't meet the standards of the team and if you don't get what some people consider the smaller things right then you are no hope of getting the big stuff right so we thought it was an appropriate course of action.
"We've got a fair bit of work to do and we have to improve some of the standards we've seen in the last couple of weeks.
"What I do know is that if you are going to try and build something and try and make this club a club that the region is really proud of then you can only do that is with good people and there are plenty of good people at this club.
"We're going through period at the moment, just about all of it self-inflicted, so we have to own that and work out how we are going to get better.
"There's no doubt we need to improve the current standards and we need to improve them quickly if we're going to turn the club around."
