Feisty Rooster's 'ordinary act' torched by coach

A ropeable Jason Demetriou called retired an disfigured determination by Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves pursuing South Sydney's gripping 30-14 triumph successful Sunday's elimination final.

In a clash that featured a grounds 7 sin-bins, Waerea-Hargeaves was fixed his marching orders successful the 51st infinitesimal aft it was deemed he'd slammed Tom Burgess' caput into the turf arsenic the Rabbitohs prop was tackled by him and 2 different Roosters defenders.

Storm elephantine Nelson Asofa-Solomona is the look of the arguable act, having employed it connected a bid of occasions and having adjacent broken Wayde Egan's teeth successful the process successful circular 20.

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Jared Waerea-Hargreaves walks from the tract aft being sin-binned for performing a unsafe tackle connected Tom Burgess during the Roosters' decision to the Rabbitohs successful Sunday's elimination final. (Getty)

South Sydney manager Demetriou condemned Waerea-Hargreaves and the soiled enactment aft the drama-charged Sydney Football Stadium clash, successful which the Rabbitohs booked themselves successful for a semi-final against the Sharks.

"We're talking astir concussions arsenic a superior portion of our game, and we're talking astir the referees and the crippled arsenic a full doing things to marque definite that we're protecting the players," Demetriou said successful his property conference.

"But if a subordinate wants to clasp a subordinate who's defenseless and slam his caput successful the crushed ... (when does) the work travel backmost connected the payer? I conscionable deliberation it's an mean enactment and I deliberation the crippled has to travel down connected it.

"They cognize what they're doing, you cognize what you're doing erstwhile you're slamming a bloke's caput successful the ground.

"I conscionable deliberation arsenic a subordinate you've got to person immoderate respect for the opposition. If you don't past who are you?"

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Demetriou added that different clubs were besides blameworthy of performing the nasty determination and said it was "happening excessively often".

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"We spot it each the time," said the South Sydney mentor.

"The caput slam erstwhile the bloke's defenseless ... it happens accidentally sometimes, but the deliberate ones — we've got to travel down connected them.

"We're getting 3 men successful a tackle, we're locking the shot up, he's defenseless and we're slamming him down with a 100-120 kilos of value successful the backmost of the head.

"Tom's a large man, but everyone saw however atrocious helium got retired of that tackle.

"I'm not conscionable saying it for Tom, but for each players. All players (need to) instrumentality a truly superior look astatine however we look aft each other."

Burgess stumbled arsenic helium got disconnected the crushed aft the tackle, earlier being substituted disconnected for the remaining 29 minutes of the match.

Burgess was besides a perpetrator of foul play successful the sudden-death game, with the South Sydney seasoned penalised for precocious interaction connected 3 occasions.

The 2nd precocious changeable resulted successful Burgess being sent to the misdeed bin successful the 19th minute.

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