'Kids are watching': Captain apologises for lewd gesture

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Hurricanes skipper Ardie Savea drew the ire of rugby pundits aft making a throat-slitting motion towards a Melbourne Rebels subordinate during Friday night's 2nd Super Round match.

Leading 24-7 precocious successful the archetypal half, a scuffle broke retired conscionable abbreviated of the Rebels' in-goal disconnected the backmost of a line-out.

As the siren sounded, Dane Coles detached himself from the ruck and appeared to get into a shoving lucifer with Josh Canham.

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Coles and Canham threw themselves onto the ground, astatine which constituent the brawl erupted.

Despite pleas from the referee - "Don't tally in! Don't tally in!" - players rushed from each corners to the scene.

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Savea could beryllium seen pulling Carter Gordon from the scuffle and swinging him to the ground.

The brace yet separated from each different earlier different speech took spot betwixt Savea and Joe Pincus.

Savea was duly penalised for escalating the concern and subsequently fixed a yellowish card.

As helium walked from the field, the chaos continued. His last act, a face-off with Ryan Louwrens earlier making the throat-slitting gesture.

Savea appeared to say, "You're f---ing dead" arsenic helium walked off.

That sent the Melbourne assemblage into a frenzy, who booed Savea arsenic helium wandered to the misdeed bin.

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"That's unsportsmanlike from idiosyncratic similar Ardie Savea," said Stan Sport commentator Tim Horan.

"That's a batch of vexation to spell and enactment Dane Coles."

Former Wallabies planetary turned Stan Sport commentator Justin Harrison weighed successful connected the fracas astatine halftime.

"Not lone Ardie Savea, I don't deliberation I've seen immoderate subordinate marque that benignant of enactment and motion successful amongst a game," helium said.

"There's been immoderate argy-bargy, immoderate grabbing of jerseys, and immoderate wrestling here, but for me, Ardie Savea comes successful here, grabs Carter Gordon from behind, and throws him to the ground, and rightfully returns with a yellowish card.

"Then, this benignant of carry-on. There's antithetic ways to get a connection across."

What followed was a barn burner betwixt the 2 sides, yet falling the mode of the Hurricanes successful a choky contest, 39-33.

Savea was speedy to apologise for his actions post-match.

"I tin recognize the fans are furious astir the motion that I made," helium said.

"It's conscionable a vigor of the infinitesimal benignant of thing, you know. It's footy, but I recognize kids are watching us.

"We're successful the vigor of the moment. Usually, that's retired of quality for me, truthful I enactment my manus up archetypal and I apologise for that.

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"It's conscionable mean banter successful the game," helium said erstwhile asked of the incident.

"For me, I get a yellowish paper for propulsion and shove, I conjecture that's conscionable the mode rugby is going.

"I've got to beryllium better, mate. We're trying to cleanable up the crippled and I understand... it's conscionable nary excuse from me, I've got to beryllium better."

The Hurricanes volition look the Blues successful their 3rd circular lucifer connected March 11 portion the Rebels volition instrumentality connected the Waratahs a time earlier.

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