CRONULLA veteran Luke Lewis has whacked his younger teammate Andrew Fifita for the ugly on-field blow-up directed at his coaches on Saturday.

The vision of Fifita pointing towards the Sharks coaches box and yelling what appears to be, “you f***ed up, f*** you!”, during their win over North Queensland has blown up over the weekend.

At the time a number of his Cronulla teammates swarmed him, trying to calm him down while also celebrating the try he had just scored.

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Lewis believes Fifita would regret the act of aggression in hindsight, but clipped his teammate around the ear for failing to mask his emotion at the time.

Lewis says the incident was a bad look for young players.

“It’s definitely not the way to react, and it’s not the thing we want to be sending out there to kids,” Lewis told Triple M on Sunday.

“But he’s done it now, and I suppose they will have to have a good conversation about it on Monday or Tuesday and clear the air to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“It wasn’t a good look for the game and it wasn’t a good look for our side either. It’s very disappointing because we had a good win.

“That’s just the way Fifita is. He sort of just goes with the flow and acts how he acts and then thinks about it later.

“He doesn’t think about it at the time and make the right decisions.”

Lewis revealed Fifita apologised to the coaches and players following the game on Saturday.

But he says the controversial prop will probably need to sit down with head coach Shane Flanagan and assistant Jim Dymock during the week to discuss the incident.

“Obviously Flanno and Jimmy and Fifita will sit down and have a good chat about it and I suppose explain why did get pulled off early,” Lewis said.

“Fifita will have his chance to explain why he reacted the way he did.

“We have to get on the front foot pretty early and sort it out to make sure it never happens again.

“It’s not just about the club … it’s the image we’re setting for young kids, that’s what we’re worried about.

“We want young kids to grow up playing our game and we don’t want people to react the way Fifita reacted.

“The only way they can do that is to sit down and talk about it to make sure it never happens again.”