Security called after fiery Hastings-Tigers clash

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Security astatine Leichhardt Oval has been forced to intervene aft a fiery post-match confrontation betwixt Jackson Hastings and aggregate Tigers players.

The incidental took spot minutes aft Hastings' Newcastle Knights staved disconnected a precocious comeback effort from his erstwhile team, the Wests Tigers.

Hastings was placed connected study successful the archetypal fractional pursuing a deed which forced ex-teammate Tommy Talau disconnected the tract with a HIA. The Tigers confirmed that Talau's chemoreceptor had been breached arsenic a effect of Hastings' swinging arm.

Following the match, Hastings called the incidental a "pure accident" and went implicit to apologise to Talau earlier being pushed successful the thorax aggregate times by him.

Talau's Tigers teammate David Klemmer past came implicit to remonstrate earlier information intervened and a Knights authoritative pulled Hastings distant from the confrontation.

"I honestly didn't deliberation I got him, evidently I did (because) he's bleeding," Hastings told Fox League of the deed connected Talau.

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"I'm truly atrocious for Tommy, I'll accidental atrocious to him aft this. It was a axenic accident.

"I was trying to halt a try, determination was nary malice successful it. He came astatine maine evidently and helium was good wrong his rights."

Both coaches were unaware of what had taken spot betwixt Hastings and the Tigers players erstwhile asked astir it successful the post-match property conference.

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Tigers skipper Api Koroisau said determination was nary trash talking betwixt the 2 parties during the match.

Hastings returned to the NRL with the Tigers past twelvemonth aft a four-year spell successful the UK, but near the nine for the Knights aft a reported fallout with then-Tigers wide manager Tim Sheens, who is present the caput coach.

While Sheens downplayed reports of a feud, Hastings took a thinly-veiled swipe astatine the Tigers manager by going retired of his mode to praise his predecessor Michael Maguire.

"We perceive the noise, particularly astir our manager (Adam O'Brien), but he does a bully occupation and he's instilled a pugnacious (mindset in) the group," helium told Fox League aft the match.

"That's wherefore I loved being coached by Michael Maguire, (he had) a tough, steely mindset.

"The crippled has turned into an attacking game, but coaches similar Adsy (Adam O'Brien), Madge, that's what wins games. The champion teams successful the comp that triumph each twelvemonth are the champion defensively. We're obscurity adjacent determination yet, but we're getting there.

"He (Sheens) tin talk. It's not up to maine to talk. I cognize the information down what happened, helium knows the information down what happened, and it is what it is. It's not up to maine to speech successful the media, my occupation is to travel retired present and play football.

"I've said each on that I've got thing but respect for the Tigers, their fans, the players, they gave maine a chance, they brought maine backmost from England.

"I'm not present to badmouth nary one, I ne'er will. If they privation to talk, they tin talk, but I'm conscionable present to play shot and bash my best."

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