Adelaide players were busted with uploading pornographic "hand drawn" content onto their Facebook sites.
I'd rather lose a Grand Final by a record margin than have these clowns playing in my club, unleash your wrath Power supporters.
TWO Adelaide Crows footballers have been caught out posting hand-drawn pornographic pictures on a website accessible to children.
The Adelaide Football Club ordered the crude images to be removed, condemned the players involved and yesterday issued an apology.
The offending pictures were displayed on ruckman Ivan Maric's Facebook homepage.
One – sent by fellow ruckman John Meesen – depicted a female performing a sex act on a man, while the other image, posted by defender Andrew McIntyre, was of a penis with arms.
The pictures sparked outrage from politicians and Young Media Australia.
It is the latest in a string of off-field embarrassments that have plagued the club this year, including a betting scandal, players breaking curfew and last month's alleged assault of a female outside a city nightclub.
The Adelaide Football Club emphasised yesterday the players were unaware Maric's homepage could be accessed by anyone registered with the publicly accessible Facebook website.
"The boys thought their homepages were available to only their friends and were taken aback (to realise they were available to the public)," Crows commercial operations general manager Phil Harper said yesterday.
"I showed the images to (Football Operations general manager) John Reid and the boys concerned, Ivan Maric and John Meesen, were spoken to and we will speak to Andrew McIntyre after the SANFL Grand Final (in which he plays for North Adelaide today)."
"What was drawn was inappropriate, in poor taste and immature and we apologise to anyone who has been offended by them."
The club ensured the images were withdrawn from Maric's homepage and it had since been blocked to public access, Mr Harper said.
"The club is disappointed in the players' behaviour," Mr Harper said, adding that they would face fines or match suspensions if involved in any similar incidents in the future.
Young Media Australia acting chairwoman Lynne Rutherford said she was shocked such images were posted on a website popular with young people.
"This issue is about the fact the images were accessible to young people, including Crows fans who would naturally seek out the home pages of their heroes," Ms Rutherford said.
Family First MP Dennis Hood and Australian Democrats MP Sandra Kanck said it was inevitable these images had been seen by youngsters, give they were on Maric's homepage during the week which coincided with the start of school holidays.
"This site is popular with youngsters and I'm sure some boys and girls would have stumbled on this home page," Ms Kanck said.
Mr Hood, a Crows fan, said: "It's only natural for young fans to look up their heroes on a website like this and it would be likely this would have happened."
I'd rather lose a Grand Final by a record margin than have these clowns playing in my club, unleash your wrath Power supporters.
TWO Adelaide Crows footballers have been caught out posting hand-drawn pornographic pictures on a website accessible to children.
The Adelaide Football Club ordered the crude images to be removed, condemned the players involved and yesterday issued an apology.
The offending pictures were displayed on ruckman Ivan Maric's Facebook homepage.
One – sent by fellow ruckman John Meesen – depicted a female performing a sex act on a man, while the other image, posted by defender Andrew McIntyre, was of a penis with arms.
The pictures sparked outrage from politicians and Young Media Australia.
It is the latest in a string of off-field embarrassments that have plagued the club this year, including a betting scandal, players breaking curfew and last month's alleged assault of a female outside a city nightclub.
The Adelaide Football Club emphasised yesterday the players were unaware Maric's homepage could be accessed by anyone registered with the publicly accessible Facebook website.
"The boys thought their homepages were available to only their friends and were taken aback (to realise they were available to the public)," Crows commercial operations general manager Phil Harper said yesterday.
"I showed the images to (Football Operations general manager) John Reid and the boys concerned, Ivan Maric and John Meesen, were spoken to and we will speak to Andrew McIntyre after the SANFL Grand Final (in which he plays for North Adelaide today)."
"What was drawn was inappropriate, in poor taste and immature and we apologise to anyone who has been offended by them."
The club ensured the images were withdrawn from Maric's homepage and it had since been blocked to public access, Mr Harper said.
"The club is disappointed in the players' behaviour," Mr Harper said, adding that they would face fines or match suspensions if involved in any similar incidents in the future.
Young Media Australia acting chairwoman Lynne Rutherford said she was shocked such images were posted on a website popular with young people.
"This issue is about the fact the images were accessible to young people, including Crows fans who would naturally seek out the home pages of their heroes," Ms Rutherford said.
Family First MP Dennis Hood and Australian Democrats MP Sandra Kanck said it was inevitable these images had been seen by youngsters, give they were on Maric's homepage during the week which coincided with the start of school holidays.
"This site is popular with youngsters and I'm sure some boys and girls would have stumbled on this home page," Ms Kanck said.
Mr Hood, a Crows fan, said: "It's only natural for young fans to look up their heroes on a website like this and it would be likely this would have happened."
