The wife of Canberra Raiders star player Josh Papali'i has indicated she will admit to assaulting two people at a local rugby league match.
Mesepa Salesa, previously reported as being named Masepa Papali'i, faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Through barrister Stephen Robinson, the woman indicated guilty pleas to two counts of common assault relating to the violent July incident. She is set to formally plead guilty before a magistrate.
Video footage captured the Katrina Fanning Shield women's match brawl, which involved players from both teams and caused the match to be abandoned.
In Salesa's first court appearance, a deputy registrar read out charges relating to two different female victims and set down a date for sentencing early next year.
No details of the case were read in court and lawyers said agreed facts were yet to be finalised.
But The Canberra Times has reported the assaults took place in Kippax at a match between the West Belconnen Warriors and the Bungendore Kangaroos.
Salesa, 32 at the time of the incident, was banned from attending all community rugby league matches in the capital for a decade after an investigation by Canberra Region Rugby League.
Her high-profile husband is facing a court case of his own, after police charged the Raiders forward with intimidating police and failing to leave a licensed premises.
Papali'i is set to face court later this month after he was allegedly involved in a drunken incident at the Raiders Gungahlin club in mid-September.
