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21st April 2009, 14:29
LOL - if the NMFC chicken movie wasnt enough this month, I think the Dockers have finally won at something - Awesome pranks!
Fremantle Dockers coach suggests players dress as Klan members
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FREMANTLE'S dramas have spilled off-field, with one of the club's coaches saying the players dress in Ku Klux Klan costumes.
Speaking on PerthNow's broadcasting partner SportFM 91.3 (http://www.sportfm.com.au/), Dockers development coach Steve Malaxos said some Fremantle players dressed up as Klan members and raided each others houses as a "prank".
Malaxos made the comments on SportFM's Saturday Talking Dockers program.
The show's hosts, Steve Allen and Shayne Hope, asked the Fremantle coach about a "practical joker who tinkered with the whiteboard", adding a 3km time-trial to the Dockers' training session.
But after Malaxos confirmed the joke had taken place, he suggested the players sometimes conducted more unorthodox practical jokes.
"You've got good insight there, mate. We'll have to be careful of you," Malaxos said.
"Everything I can confirm. I'm not sure about the laying out of the track. So I'm unaware of that, but the rest of it is true.
"There's a reasonable amount of pranks going on all the time. Sometimes they raid each other's houses in, sort of, Klu Klux Klan outfits. That's one of the other pranks."
PerthNow was unable to make contact with the Fremantle Dockers or Malaxos.
Malaxos' comments come in the wake of North Melbourne's 'chickengate' affair, in which senior players Daniel Pratt and Adam Simpson were fined $5000 for making a video depicting a rubber chicken having sex with a chicken carcass.
The controversey puts further pressure on Dockers coach Mark Harvey, who is under seige after Fremantle's horror 0-4 start to 2009, which included last round's 83-point drubbing by St Kilda.
SportFM manager Jason Dattilo defended the station's decision to remove the comments from the podcast of the program.
"The reason why we took the audio off is because we know it's a sensitive issue, but we firmly believe it was a slip of the tongue by Steve," Dattilo said.
"We didn't want to take it further. We're not a witch-hunting station."
Fremantle Dockers coach suggests players dress as Klan members
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6588471,00.jpg
FREMANTLE'S dramas have spilled off-field, with one of the club's coaches saying the players dress in Ku Klux Klan costumes.
Speaking on PerthNow's broadcasting partner SportFM 91.3 (http://www.sportfm.com.au/), Dockers development coach Steve Malaxos said some Fremantle players dressed up as Klan members and raided each others houses as a "prank".
Malaxos made the comments on SportFM's Saturday Talking Dockers program.
The show's hosts, Steve Allen and Shayne Hope, asked the Fremantle coach about a "practical joker who tinkered with the whiteboard", adding a 3km time-trial to the Dockers' training session.
But after Malaxos confirmed the joke had taken place, he suggested the players sometimes conducted more unorthodox practical jokes.
"You've got good insight there, mate. We'll have to be careful of you," Malaxos said.
"Everything I can confirm. I'm not sure about the laying out of the track. So I'm unaware of that, but the rest of it is true.
"There's a reasonable amount of pranks going on all the time. Sometimes they raid each other's houses in, sort of, Klu Klux Klan outfits. That's one of the other pranks."
PerthNow was unable to make contact with the Fremantle Dockers or Malaxos.
Malaxos' comments come in the wake of North Melbourne's 'chickengate' affair, in which senior players Daniel Pratt and Adam Simpson were fined $5000 for making a video depicting a rubber chicken having sex with a chicken carcass.
The controversey puts further pressure on Dockers coach Mark Harvey, who is under seige after Fremantle's horror 0-4 start to 2009, which included last round's 83-point drubbing by St Kilda.
SportFM manager Jason Dattilo defended the station's decision to remove the comments from the podcast of the program.
"The reason why we took the audio off is because we know it's a sensitive issue, but we firmly believe it was a slip of the tongue by Steve," Dattilo said.
"We didn't want to take it further. We're not a witch-hunting station."