“Anyone can pinpoint anything, the jersey [incident], anything, you’re just open to it. I’m pretty sure [Cobbo] and Dano are pretty close mates. It’s obviously not a good look and it’s just one of those things.”

Should the Tigers’ losing streak continue - a distinct possibility given their next clash is against Parramatta on Easter Monday - the spotlight will burn brighter still. Fellow forward Alex Twal said Klemmers’ advice is timely.

“Definitely, social media is so prominent in society,” Twal said. “If you’re a young fella, you haven’t played too many games if you haven’t been around it.

“It’s best to stay off it, I agree with big Klem. When the team is putting in the effort, it’s a bit hard to look at all the outside noise, you can only do what you can control and that’s training hard and putting in a good performance this weekend.”

Asked about Laurie’s media post, Twal said: “I’m sure he’s aware it’s not the right thing to do. At the end of the day he trained real good and if he had his time again he wouldn’t have liked that photo.

“Everything gets blown out of proportion when you’re not winning. At the end of the day, as players, we need to just focus on controlling what we can control.”

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