Knights star Jackson Hastings in another controversy as he snubs ex-teammate Sean O’Sullivan

Polarising NRL star Jackson Hastings has been involved in another shocking post-match confrontation with a rival player less than a week after his fiery clash with David Klemmer and Tommy Talau after the Knights’ brave win over the Tigers.  

Hastings was in a foul mood following his side’s 36-20 defeat to the Dolphins at McDonalds Jones Stadium on Friday when he completely snubbed his ex-Roosters teammate Sean O’Sullivan while the two teams shook hands.

Hastings refused to make eye contact with the Dolphins halfback, even when O’Sullivan tried to get through to him by saying, ‘Jacko!’ 

The Knights playmaker hardly looked at any of the other Dolphins stars at full-time, and seemed to want to get back to the sheds as soon as possible. 

Hastings’ demeanour could be put down to that fact he was forced from the field with a head injury after copping a brutal hit from Felise Kaufusi in the 68th minute.

Hastings refused to have anything to do with his former Roosters teammate Sean O’Sullivan straight after the Knights’ loss on Friday night (pictured)

Kaufusi flattened him with a crunching tackle and was sin-binned after referee Chris Butler deemed the hit to have been high and late.

NRL Immortal Andrew Johns labelled the hit ‘the cheapest shot in the game’ and believes somebody could get seriously injured from that type of tackle.

‘It’s frustrating when you are 100 per cent fine like I was,’ Hastings said about the HIA. 

‘There was nothing. Not even a percentage in me was concussed. It makes it hard, but it is what it is. They are looking after the players and you just have to go off. 

‘I have nothing bad to say, it’s just one of those things where I would like to be on the field at the end of the game and try and win it.’

The frosty incident after the match is the latest in a long line of controversies involving the star, and comes just five days after his post-match run in with Tigers players at Leichhardt Oval.

Hastings put a high shot on Wests centre Talau that broke his nose, and tried to apologise to his former teammate after the siren sounded.

Talau pushed Hastings away after being approached by the Newcastle half, before a security guard stepped in and Wests enforcer David Klemmer gave his rival a verbal dressing down.

The Knights playmaker hardly looked at any of the other Dolphins players at full-time, and seemed to want to get back to the sheds as soon as possible

Hastings copped a brutal hit from Felise Kaufusi that forced him from the field with a HIA in the 68th minute (pictured)

The incident with O’Sullivan followed hot on the heels of his headline-grabbing clash with Tigers centre Tommy Talau (pictured) last Sunday

‘I don’t know the bloke,’ Klemmer said afterwards. ‘It’s just one of those things, I was looking out for my mate and my mate didn’t want to go out there and talk. So I just intervened and cut it out. It was nothing that bad.’

‘The security guard stepped in. I just went over. It was pretty harmless. It might have looked a different way, but there was nothing in it.’