Jai Arrow admitted he had a “bit of a hissy fit” after the Rabbitohs forward “stormed off” the field following South Sydney’s 25-24 golden point loss to Melbourne on Saturday night.
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It was a heartbreaking loss for the Rabbitohs, who now sit second-last on the ladder and had scored more tries than the Storm despite being on the wrong end of the scoreboard in the end.
Arrow, who ran for 73 metres and made 42 tackles in the loss, didn’t hang around after Ryan Papenhuyzen kicked the game-winning field goal.
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In fact, he headed straight for the sheds and, according to the Daily Telegraph, kicked over a bench seat in the process.
“I had a bit of a hissy fit,” Arrow said on Sunday Night with Matty Johns.
“Obviously fairly disappointed with the result and I stormed off the field unfortunately. I walked straight into the sheds, grabbed a beer and went home… it’s all you can do after a loss.”
While Arrow appeared almost embarrassed at first over his actions, Johns actually commended the Rabbitohs forward for taking the loss to heart and not appearing overly happy like many other players.
“It does my head in,” Johns said of players smiling after losses.
Arrow had put everything into Saturday’s game, even hustling at one point to make a try-saving tackle on Grant Anderson — and he had two words for the Storm winger.
Although he couldn’t share them live on air.
“There were two words that were said but I can’t say them on air unfortunately,” he laughed.
He could, however, share what coach Wayne Bennett had to say to the team after the game.
“He was actually really good. He was positive, Wayne,” Arrow said.
“He walked in after the game into the sheds and just said, ‘Look, there are no losers in the shed tonight, we’ll build from this, continue to stick to our process and eventually results will come’.
“I think the majority of that game we were the better team and unfortunately in rugby league there’s only 80 minutes and we ran out of time last night.”
