Tigers enforcer David Klemmer has revealed precisely what he mentioned to Jackson Hastings after the Knights halfback tried to apologise to centre Tommy Talau.
Hastings caught the younger exterior again’s face throughout Sunday’s conflict, breaking his nostril as Talau failed his HIA.
The 27-year-old approached Talau after an interview with Fox League and was given a shove as Klemmer stepped in to defend his teammate.
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Klemmer and Hastings have been part of a participant swap within the low season and the hulking prop made it clear he had no in poor health emotions in direction of the halfback previous to the sport.
“I don’t know him from a bar of soap,” Klemmer mentioned to the SMH.
“Do I just watch and let them go at it? Do I just watch them throw it down? That’s what everyone wants.
“They want to see that. What do you do? I wasn’t even upset, I just said, ‘That’s enough. You won the footy game, just walk away’.
“Obviously, it’s blown up and people have their own views.
“At the end of the day, he got the win, he should have just walked away when Tommy said he didn’t want to talk to him, just accepted it.
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“Maybe I just should have let them have it. What do you do?”
Pundits have slammed Talau’s post-match actions, however Klemmer believes “there wasn’t really much in it” and conceded it was “a bad scene”.
The incident recreation after the Tigers’ loss to the Knights, taking place to a facet with 12 gamers for half the sport and with out gun playmaker Kalyn Ponga.
Tim Sheens facet are actually 0-2 to start out the season, sitting in seventeenth place after Michael Maguire was sacked final season.
“I could see that Tommy didn’t want to talk about it and some argy-bargy happened. I went over and said, ‘Leave him alone, he doesn’t want to talk to you’,” Klemmer mentioned.
“That was it. The next thing there was a security guard and everyone is jumping in. Then he started mouthing off. It wasn’t like it was a melee … Then the security guard came.”
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
