Sep 30th, 2018

Sep 30th, 2018

A regretful Cameron Munster has given a heartfelt apology for a grand final "brain fart" that might cost his place in the Kangaroos side.

The Melbourne Storm superstar had a match to forget as the Storm were outplayed in the NRL decider, twice getting sin binned as his side were defeated by the Roosters 21-6.

The second of those sin bins came with the result already determined and just three minutes left to play, with a frustrated Munster lashing out with his foot at Joseph Manu as the Roosters youngster attempted to get to his feet to play the ball.

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The Dally M Five-Eighth of the Year was placed on report by referee Gerard Sutton for the incident and faces a suspension that could rub him out of the Kangaroos' two end of season Test matches.

It would be a bitter pill to swallow and the regretful 24-year-old was clearly disappointed with himself after having a night to reflect on it.

"I deserved the second (sin binning)," Munster told reporters outside the Storm hotel on Monday morning.

"I was obviously frustrated and it was a bit of a brain fart, but in saying that I really can't explain what happened.

"I'm really sorry for what happened but I just don't want to be known like that. I said sorry to Manu after the game and I know there's going to be a lot of keyboard warriors saying some stuff to me but I'm not like that and I've just got to go back to the drawing board and be a little bit better with some of the stuff I did last night."

The Munster apology was applauded by retiring Storm champion Billy Slater, who spoke to reporters soon after Munster and claimed that despite some off-field incidents that have made headlines in the past, the in-demand playmaker is "a good guy".

"He's a good guy, he's a really good guy, he loves his footy," Slater said.

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"He plays it tough and we've all done things on the football field where we'd like our time over again but he's one of the reasons we got to that stage last night, he can't be too hard on himself.

"I think the way the first half went it snowballed against us and when that happens things start to go against you and you start trying to play catch up and that's probably what found Cameron in trouble.

" ... He's got a lot of respect for the game, Cameron and he would be quite apologetic about his actions.

"Like I said, he's a really good guy and he's good for the game and we all have those moments occasionally."