A bar owner has slammed ‘mongrel scum’ rugby league fans in a lengthy rant following game one of State of Origin.
Leo Molloy owns the Headquarters bar on the waterfront at Auckland’s swanky Viaduct Harbour, and on Wednesday night the New Zealand venue screened the opening game of this year’s series between Queensland and New South Wales.
Showing the game on ‘the biggest big screen in New Zealand’ according to Mr Molloy, he claims he received ‘dozens of requests to play some bogan game of criminals and sons of criminals in cane toad purple [versus] criminals and other tattooed bogans in blue’.
Leo Molloy owns the Headquarters bar on the waterfront at Auckland’s swanky Viaduct Harbour
Showing the game on ‘the biggest big screen in New Zealand’ according to Mr Molloy, he claims he received ‘dozens of requests to play some bogan game of criminals and sons of criminals’
After his venue suffered damage during the screening of the game, Mr Molloy said he will never show a rugby league game there again
In a Facebook post, Mr Molloy said showing the game on his $120,000 television caused regular patrons to leave.
‘Then the low league-following scum decided to behave just as they look,’ he said.
‘Don’t ever ask again you dogs, you vandals and you abusers, I’ll go repair the damage you did and I’ll learn my lesson once and for all.’
Mr Molloy said the bar usually screens rugby union games, which he claims attracts a more desirable clientele.
‘If you want decent people at [Headquarters] support rugby, if you want mongrel scum and vandals support league.
‘Two words you low scum… and the second one is off… unless of course you have a shred of decency and you come back and apologise and pay for the damage you did.’
Mr Molloy said some of those in the bar to watch the game destroyed property, including ‘smashing up pictures’ of UFC star Conor McGregor and Victoria Cross recipient Willie Apiata.
‘Tough bastards being smashed up by low-life league-loving losers,’ Mr Molloy said.
He said other sporting events such as last years British and Irish Lions rugby union tour of New Zealand, cricket and racing had been shown at the bar without incident.
‘Then the league scum drift in and try to wreck the place.’
Mr Molloy said he will never show a rugby league game at Headquarters again.
‘I’ve made my decision, never again you losers, you behave like animals and I’ll treat you exactly like that, with pleasure.
‘Apologies to those who love that game and behave, but I’m not having my precious asset put at risk again.
‘I’ll be happy to never see another bogan league supporter in my life thanks, and if I lose a couple of decent people along the way so be it, but I’ll save a fortune on repairs so it’ll equal out.’
Mr Molloy (pictured left with former Prime Minister Bill English) said some of those in the bar to watch the game destroyed property, including ‘smashing up pictures’ of UFC star Conor McGregor and Victoria Cross recipient Willie Apiata
Mr Molloy said he was looking forward to welcoming patrons for this weekend’s rugby union test match between the All Blacks and France in a Facebook rant
Mr Molloy said he was looking forward to welcoming patrons for this weekend’s rugby union test match between the All Blacks and France.
‘Roll on the rugby [union] crowd Saturday, they know how to behave.’
A New Zealand Police spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia they had no record of any incident occurring at the bar on Wednesday night.
Headquarters made headlines in September 2017 when Mr Molloy asked a customer with tattoos to leave the bar.
‘I said to them that I didn’t think that he was the right target market for our establishment,’ Mr Molloy said.
The customer said that Mr Molloy told him and his partner that would like them to leave and he couldn’t serve them anyway because of how heavily tattooed he was.
‘His tattoos were just scribbles, all over the side of his face, all over his head. It was inappropriate,’ Mr Molloy said.
A New Zealand Police spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia they had no record of any incident occurring at the bar on Wednesday night during New South Wales’ win
Josh Addo-Carr (pictured) scored the match-sealing try during game one of State of Origin
In August, a customer was left shocked by Mr Molloy’s response following a one-star review left on the Headquarters’s Facebook page.
Gideon Marisa, a former MasterChef contestant, visited Headquarters with some friends and was unimpressed with the service.
Mr Marisa rated the Auckland restaurant just one star out of five because of the ‘terrible service’ he experienced and claimed none of the staff ‘knew what they were doing’.
Shortly after Mr Marisa received a direct message to his private inbox from owner Mr Molloy which was the start of an unpleasant exchange between the two.
Mr Molloy asked Mr Marisa to ‘find something you actually know about or desist from your toxic drivel’.
Headquarters made headlines in September 2017 when Mr Molloy asked a customer with tattoos to leave the bar