A prank tweet that publicly announced Warriors' fullback Kevin Locke was gay was being treated seriously, the team's chief executive Wayne Scurrah says.
The tweet, which would have turned up on more than 18,000 of Locke's followers' accounts read: "Think I might be gay ... RT if ur not against it.''
Seven people retweeted the post and three favourited it before it was deleted.
Mr Scurrah said someone had had a "poor attempt at making fun at Kevin's expense, certainly not at the gay community's expense''.
"It wasn't appropriate and we're talking about it with Kevin.''