Tigers firebrand breaks silence on sideline fight

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Wests Tigers firebrand David Klemmer says helium has thing to regret implicit a sideline scuffle with Newcastle enlistee Jackson Hastings.

It was an disfigured postscript to Sunday's crippled astatine Leichhardt Oval, erstwhile Hastings approached Tigers youngster Tommy Talau to apologise for accidentally breaking his chemoreceptor during the contest.

Talau wanted nary barroom of the apology, and pushed his erstwhile teammate successful the thorax respective times successful an effort to marque Hastings leave.

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Fiery guardant Klemmer past approached the fracas and besides pushed Hastings, firing disconnected immoderate aggravated words successful the process.

It has since been suggested the absorption from 2 Tigers players was implicit the apical and unnecessary.

Klemmer defends Hastings scuffle

On Wednesday, Klemmer fronted media and was grilled astir those claims.

"It's conscionable 1 of those things, I was looking aft my mate," helium said.

"My mate didn't privation to speech (to Hastings) truthful I benignant of conscionable intervened and chopped it out.

"It was thing that bad."

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Klemmer became agitated by questioning from 9News writer Danny Weidler.

The question was posed whether the scuffle was a effect of immoderate idiosyncratic past betwixt Hastings, Klemmer, and Talau.

Hastings played astatine the Tigers past year, earlier an off-season power with Klemmer.

"I don't cognize the bloke," Klemmer said of Hastings.

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"It's your teammate... would you bash it for your mate? If it's confrontation to your mate would you bash it?

"I conscionable went implicit there, it was beauteous harmless."

Hastings has near a fig of NRL teams connected atrocious presumption previously, and rumours of a rift with the Tigers won't die.

He was antecedently forced to permission Manly aft an altercation with Sea Eagles skipper Daly Cherry-Evans.

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