Talking Footy

Willis 21 wrote:

Oh by the way... talking about Un- Australian, did't you WA c**nts vote to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia once??

I wish we had actually let you as you lot are parasites living off the back of East Coast tax payers.....

I'm just glad that I am working overseas at the moment, and not actually paying any tax so you inbreds can build roads and hospitals in your backward state...

The Australian Football League is once again having to defend itself over its handling of rape allegations against its players.

An Australian woman has accused former AFL player, Adam Heuskes, of raping her in a London hotel room, while four of his then Brisbane Lions teammates watched on. The woman claims the incident happened in October 1999, when the club was on an end of season trip.

Ten months later, in an unrelated incident, Heuskes faced a charge of raping another woman outside an Adelaide nightclub.

The claims are made in tonight's edition of Four Corners on ABC television.

Heuskes now plays for a suburban Adelaide football club, and has refused to comment, as Alison Caldwell reports.

ALISON CALDWELL: The woman referred to as "Sarah" claims that on October the 6th, 1999, she caught up with a Brisbane Lions team member in a London pub. A friend of her boyfriend since high school, his team was in town on an end of season football trip.

She claims that night at the pub she had to resist the advances of another Brisbane player, Adam Heuskes. With her home some two hours away, her friend invited her to stay in his room that night.

Sarah says she fell asleep, but three hours later that night, she claims she was raped by player while at least four of his Brisbane Lions teammates watched on.

In March this year, Adam Heuskes was named, along with Peter Borgoyne and Michael O'Loughlin, as the three players who contributed to a reported $200,000 payment to the Adelaide woman as part of a confidentiality agreement.

Sampi charged over alleged assault

West Coast Eagles player Ashley Sampi is facing criminal charges over a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.

Morley detectives charged the 22-year-old with assault and possessing a weapon after interviewing him last night.

The charges relate to an incident at Sampi's home in Morley on Monday night, involving the player's girlfriend and another woman.

The Eagles say it is a sensitive personal situation and the club will try to help Sampi with counselling.

The news is another blow for the Eagles, who are still grappling with the fall-out from the Ben Cousins booze bus affair.

Cousins relinquished the club captaincy and has been charged by police after allegedly abandoning his car in front of a roadside breath test site in suburban Perth last month.