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Pamela Whaley

Warriors slam ugly actions of binned trio

The Warriors' NRL season came to an end with sin bins and a shocking performance against Gold Coast. (AAP)

The Warriors have vowed to take tough action against Matt Lodge, Kane Evans and Jazz Tevaga this week after the trio were sin-binned in an ugly final-round loss to Gold Coast on Sunday.

Two separate melees broke out within the final 15 minutes of the 44-0 loss with all three players sent to the sin bin within 60 seconds.

Former Brisbane prop Lodge then doused himself in more controversy when he raised his middle finger to the booing crowd as he was marched.

It was the culmination of bad sportsmanship in their worst performance of the season that left Warriors boss Cameron George speechless.

"I'm extremely disappointed. I sat there lost for words," he said on Monday.

"We fell well below a performance we've grown to expect in our group this year.

"I know it was the last game, there wasn't anything to play for in terms of the ladder, but there was an awful lot to play for in terms of our pride and our club and our jumper and that was let down."

Evans is facing seven weeks on the sidelines for two separate charges from the NRL's match review committee, but with early guilty pleas will miss five games.

A grade one dangerous contact charge for raising his elbow into Beau Fermor could cost him between two to three weeks, but he's looking at three to four weeks for grade two contrary conduct for throwing punches in the melee.

Tevaga has been handed a $1900 fine.

Lodge has avoided MRC sanction over his sideline behaviour but has been charged for a high tackle on Tyrone Peachey and is facing a one-game ban.

It's the third time since joining the Warriors mid-season that he's been charged.

This year he has pleaded guilty to five MRC charges and missed four games, while Evans has missed one through suspension.

The signing of Lodge was controversial given his disciplinary record but George still has faith in the front-rower.

"Yeah absolutely, I do. But the matter we need to address with him is that disciplinary record," George said.

"We'll have a chat to Matt and other players about their records and what happened yesterday and make sure we do everything we can to tidy that up because they're here to do a job and we expect them to get that job done, not spend more time on the sidelines than they do on the field.

"It's pretty black and white, you play within the spirit of the game."

On Sunday night Lodge took to Instagram to apologise for his actions, and George said all three sin-binned players were remorseful after the game.

"Once they cooled down they certainly were remorseful in their actions but for me that's irrelevant," he said.

"They have a responsibility, as the club do as well, to demonstrate very good conduct and we failed in that space yesterday.

"As a club we're front-footing this, we don't accept it and regardless of their remorse post-game we've got to make sure it doesn't happen again."

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